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Coastal Carolina Univ cheerleaders suspended after letter says they’re prostitutes – Turns out these cheerleaders were ‘sugar babies,’ not prostitutes

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><h6><strong> <&sol;strong><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong>Investigators say several cheerleaders at CCU work as strippers and escorts <&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong>School authorities acting on a tip said the squad was engaged in prostitution&comma; purchasing alcohol for minors and paying others to do their homework<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong>Investigations reveal the girls see themselves as &OpenCurlyQuote;sugar babies&comma;’ not prostitutes<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong>Ladies receive up to &dollar;1&comma;500 in cash or in gifts &&num;8211&semi; clothes&comma; shoes&comma; designer handbags for accompanying men on dates<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong>Trysts were arranged through a website&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Seeking<span class&equals;"skimlinks-unlinked">Arrangements&period;com&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong>Interviews of former and current cheerleaders at the school revealed that eleven girls knew of the escort service&comma; compared to seven who did not<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<h6><span style&equals;"color&colon;&num;120101&semi;"><strong>School’s entire cheerleading team was suspended indefinitely last week<&sol;strong><&sol;span><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-166786" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;coastal-carolina-university1&period;png" alt&equals;"Coastal Carolina University1&period;png" width&equals;"963" height&equals;"459" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the wake of the recent charges of prostitution levelled against some cheerleaders at Coastal Carolina University and the subsequent backlash &comma; investigators say several cheerleaders at CCU worked as strippers and escorts&comma; sometimes receiving up to &dollar;1&comma;500 in cash or in gifts like clothes&comma; shoes and designer handbags for accompanying men on dates arranged through a website&comma; according to an open records request&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The university’s entire cheerleading team was<a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wmbfnews&period;com&sol;story&sol;35034543&sol;ccu-cheerleading-team-suspended-pending-a-conduct-investigation"> suspended indefinitely last week <&sol;a>after allegations surfaced members of the squad were involved in a prostitution ring&comma; bought booze for minors and paid others to do their course work&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Details of the college’s ongoing investigation were revealed Thursday following an open records request <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;deadspin&period;com&sol;investigation-that-led-to-ccu-suspending-entire-cheer-t-1794094851" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">filed by Deadspin<&sol;a> and other local outlets&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-166732" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;coastal-carolina-university-cheerleading-prostitution-scandal8&period;png" alt&equals;"Coastal Carolina University Cheerleading prostitution scandal8&period;png" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"435" &sol;>One of the tell-tale texts uncovered by investigators<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>Coastal Carolina University&comma; where members of the school’s cheerleading squad are accused of prostitution&comma; purchasing alcohol for minors and paying others to do their homework&comma; subsequently the entire team was suspended indefinitely pending an investigation&comma; according to a statement from the university&period; This came after an anonymous was letter sent to university president&comma; Dave DeCenzo&comma; on March 8&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h4 class&equals;"loop-title"><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;04&sol;oklahoma-football-player-lawrence-moore-arrested-for-pimping-out-ex-sooners-cheerleader-micah-madison-parker&sol;" rel&equals;"bookmark">Oklahoma football player&comma; arrested for pimping out ex-Sooners cheerleader <&sol;a><&sol;h4>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-166757" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;cheerleaders-suspended-after-letter-says-theyre-prostitutes10&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Cheerleaders suspended after letter says they're prostitutes10&period;jpg" width&equals;"800" height&equals;"453" &sol;>The entire cheerleading squad was suspended last week&comma; by CCU authorities<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>In the course of the investigation the team was met by campus police outside the HTC Center after practice Wednesday night&comma;  individual team members were called out &comma; and took them to CCU’s police station for questioning individually&comma; until 11 p&period;m&period; Police also searched through the girl&&num;8217&semi;s cell phones&comma; a team member said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Late Friday afternoon&comma; the team released a statement via Twitter in which it decried the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;false” allegations&comma; pointing out that the allegations were based solely on the word of a single anonymous letter writer&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;<a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;2017&sol;03&sol;31&sol;three-college-students-acacia-jerico-friedman-maury-noun-and-samara-charlotin-aged-19-23-arrested-for-10000-pimp-and-prostitute-deal-after-cops-carry-out-sting-at-florida-hotel&sol;" rel&equals;"bookmark">Three college students&comma; Acacia Jerico Friedman&comma; Maury Noun and Samara Charlotin aged 19-23 arrested for &OpenCurlyQuote;&dollar;10&comma;000 pimp and prostitute deal’ at Florida hotel<br &sol;>&NewLine;<&sol;a>The team decried the &lbrack;undue&rsqb; harassment of members&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The false accusations have led to harassment on campus&comma; as well as through social media&comma; and are beginning to negatively impact our daily lives as well as our studies&comma;” the statement read while seeking the support of the university community&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>At this point in time&comma; we no longer wish to be contacted about the current situation&period; The false accusations have led to harassment on campus as well as through social media&comma; and are beginning to negatively impact our daily lives as well as our studies&period; As a team we ask the community to support us through these tough times as we hope the situation will be cleared up shortly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Love&comma;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Coastal Carolina Cheerleading Team<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&num;Chantsup<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;As a team&comma; we ask the community to support us through these tough times as we hope the situation will be cleared up shortly&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The investigation however&comma; this week confirmed the cheerleaders were paid between &dollar;100 and &dollar;1&comma;500 per date&period; They also received gifts from the men — &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;sugar daddies&comma;” in the popular parlance — but there is no evidence any of the women had sex for money&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Getting paid to go on a date is not illegal&comma; and the report makes no mention of an ongoing criminal investigation&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Through interviews conducted with former and current CCU Cheerleaders&comma; my investigation revealed some of the allegations in the letter were true&comma;” wrote Michelyn Pylilo&comma; an investigator for the college’s Department of Public Safety&comma; in reference an anonymous letter sent to the school&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote; … The girls did not use their real names and worked through a website called &OpenCurlyQuote;Seeking <span class&equals;"skimlinks-unlinked">Arrangements&period;com<&sol;span>&period;’”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-166726" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;coastal-carolina-university4&period;png" alt&equals;"Coastal Carolina University4" width&equals;"650" height&equals;"358" &sol;><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>It all started when five letters were sent into CCU’s president on March 8 alleging that cheerleaders had been working as escorts&comma; stripping at strip clubs&comma; recruiting younger cheerleaders to join them&comma; shunning and harassing young cheerleaders who didn’t join them&comma; and facilitating the &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;rampant use of alcohol&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;CCU campus police investigator Michelyn Pylilo looked into the allegations and eventually ruled that &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;some of the allegations are true&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;One cheerleader said she went on a shopping date and received shoes&comma; clothes and a Michael Kors purse&period; Another admitting working as a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;shot girl” at a strip club in Myrtle Beach and being offered &dollar;800 to escort a man to New York Prime steakhouse&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-166746" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;cheerleaders-suspended-after-letter-says-theyre-prostitutes9&period;jpg" alt&equals;"Cheerleaders suspended after letter says they're prostitutes9&period;jpg" width&equals;"1013" height&equals;"292" &sol;><strong> The report filed by college investigators confirms some of the allegations<&sol;strong><br &sol;>&NewLine;Courtesy&colon; <a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;deadspin&period;com&sol;investigation-that-led-to-ccu-suspending-entire-cheer-t-1794094851">deadspin<&sol;a><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"inline-related alignright">&NewLine;<div id&equals;"more-on" class&equals;"module--see-also box module inline related desktop">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"module-title inline"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"module-wrapper ">&NewLine;<article class&equals;"story-photo-box oversize-headline">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"headline-wrapper">&NewLine;<div class&equals;"headline-container">&NewLine;<h3 class&equals;"postid-10842577"><&sol;h3>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<div class&equals;"tracking"><&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;My investigation also revealed that as of a few days ago&comma; potential dates from <span class&equals;"skimlinks-unlinked">SeekingArrangements&period;com<&sol;span> were attempting to communicate and arrange further escorts&comma;” Pylilo wrote&comma; adding that other interviews of former and current cheerleaders at the school revealed that 11 knew of the escort service&comma; compared to seven who did not&period; Interviews are ongoing&comma; Pylilo wrote&period; All of the girls involved said that they met up with men and received gifts and money for their time&comma; but didn’t have sex with them&period; Sometimes they would cross state lines and go on dates up in North Carolina&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The investigation also uncovered a group text sent among the cheerleaders on March 28 referencing the ongoing investigation and urging team members to delete the Seeking Arrangement app from their phones&period; Pylilo interviewed six current cheerleaders that same day&comma; including one who admitted sending a text message encouraging teammates to remove all evidence of the app from their phones&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It also encouraged those that are working at a strip to quit their job until Nationals so that no one would be dismissed&comma;” Pylilo wrote&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-166776" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;coastal-carolina-university7&period;png" alt&equals;"Coastal Carolina University7&period;png" width&equals;"712" height&equals;"376" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong>The team is also barred from participating in national events<&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p>In a letter sent to CCU President David DeCenzo&comma; a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Concerned Parent” alleged &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;serious issues” among the university’s cheerleading team&comma; including rampant alcohol use&comma; underage drinking&comma; drug use and the use of fake identification&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The March 8 letter also claimed cheerleaders were working at strip clubs and engaging in prostitution&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;A lot of these issues are and have been overlooked way too long&comma;” the letter read&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;There are a lot of students working extremely hard holding down jobs while going to school doing the right thing then you have people cheating and lying there &lbrack;sic&rsqb; way to good grades so that they can get drunk and party all the time&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;The university said an investigation into the allegations continues&period;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The<br &sol;>&NewLine;cheerleading team is still suspended from cheering activities”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h6><strong><img class&equals;"alignnone size-full wp-image-166802" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;seeking-arrangements-website&period;png" alt&equals;"Seeking Arrangements website&period;png" width&equals;"1387" height&equals;"748" &sol;>Seeking <span class&equals;"skimlinks-unlinked">Arrangements bills itself as the number one sugardadd &&num;8211&semi; sugardaughter dating site<&sol;span><&sol;strong><&sol;h6>&NewLine;<p><img class&equals;"alignnone wp-image-166803" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;04&sol;seeking-arrangements-website2&period;png" alt&equals;"Seeking Arrangements website2&period;png" width&equals;"951" height&equals;"340" &sol;><br &sol;>&NewLine;An attorney representing several members of the team said she was &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;disgusted and angered” by  WMBF&&num;8217&semi;s Thursday report of the school&&num;8217&semi;s statements<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I am disgusted and angered that Coastal Carolina University has released an incomplete investigation to the media that paints the women of the Cheerleading Team as prostitutes with the broadest of strokes&comma;” attorney Amy Lawrence told the station in a statement&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This goes to the heart of what is wrong with the University and its inadequate treatment of women&comma; not only in sports but on campus&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;Lawrence said four of the 26 members of CCU’s cheerleading team participated in a legal website&comma; and claimed no evidence exists proving instances of hazing&comma; prostitution&comma; drug use or homework-for-pay&comma; as alleged by a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;nameless coward&period;”<br &sol;>&NewLine;&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Would this ever happen to a Male Sports Team&quest; We have all read about male athletes at Coastal Carolina being accused of drugs&comma; domestic violence and rape&comma;” Lawrence’s statement concluded&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Yet&comma; most of those men are still playing the sport and not one team was suspended in retribution for the actual crimes of their teammates&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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