A water polo star who fled to Barcelona aftera teammate allegedly sexually and racially assaulted himhas revealed his plans to return to the US.
Aidan Romain moved to Spain and filed a bombshell lawsuit claiming fellow studentLucca Van Der Woude terrorized himat Harvard-Westlake in Studio City.
The18-year-old claimed Van Der Woude would digitally penetrate himunderwater and in locker rooms, as well as hurl racial insults including the N-word.
Now, Romain has toldABC Eyewitness Newshe wants to return to the States to attend an Ivy League school before hopefully representing the US in the Olympics.
He said: “It was very difficult on a daily basis to deal with the racial abuse and the sexual abuse. The racial abuse and sexual abuse was a daily basis thing.
“It happened in nearly every training; it would happen many times daily, sometimes outside of the pool. So, it was certainly a difficult experience.”
Romain’s legal complaint details a longstanding culture of violence and humiliation within the school’s water polo program, allegedly facilitated by staff and administrators.
Among the defendants is formerHarvard-Westlakeplayer Van Der Woude.
“The complaint walks through a myriad of allegations of racial abuse ranging from Aidan being called the N-word to being literally whipped with exercise bands in the weight room supposedly reenacting slavery,” said Romain’s attorney Daniel Watkins.
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