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What Happened in Kingfisher: A $5 Million Settlement and a Locker Room Called “The Ring” If your child was hazed, assaulted, or abused inside a school athletic program in Oklahoma, you are not overreacting. What happened in Kingfisher is proof of that. A former Kingfisher Public Schools football player filed a 2021 lawsuit alleging years of physical, verbal, and sexual abuse by teammates and coaches. In November 2023, the school district settled that case for $5 million rather than face a civil trial. The head football coach was separately charged with child neglect. The evidence included cell phone video from 2018 showing players fighting each other inside a locker room in what was called “The Ring” — fights that the lawsuit alleged were condoned by the coaching staff. We are writing this page for one person: the parent reading at 2 a.m. who just found out their child was subjected to something that was called “tradition” or “building toughness” — and who suspects, or knows, that the adults who were supposed to supervise not only failed to stop it but enabled it. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm. We take school hazing, institutional abuse, and negligent-supervision cases in…