Five employees at a high school in Denver are on administrative leave after videos surfaced showing several cheerleaders being forced into painful splits — sometimes as the teens repeatedly screamed, “Please stop!”
Ally Wakefield, a 13-year-old incoming freshman cheerleader at East High School, can be seen in one 24-second clip being forcefully held down by four people — three teammates and newly hired cheerleading coach Ozell Williams, KUSA reports. Police in Denver also are investigating the videos, which were sent anonymously to the station earlier this month.