2 cheerleading coaches Fired After Nude Photo Causes Controversy

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Coaches Fired After Party Where Photo TakenGOSHEN, Ohio -- This story aired at 11 p.m. on Nov. 2 on News 5 and is reproduced verbatim here.

A small town is rocked by scandal.

This after a racy picture of a Goshen cheerleader and her coach turns up.
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Both young ladies are topless, and they have some explaining to do.

The school says one of their cheerleading coaches took the nude picture at a recent party. It circulated through e-mail, and that's when the school asked police to get involved.

It's playoff night at Goshen High School, but both the football team and cheerleaders are each without assistant coaches tonight.

"They have to be the right role models, and that is exactly what we expect from our employees," Goshen Superintendent Charlene Thomas said.

Thomas says the school board today fired 19-year-old assistant coach Andrew Emerson for hosting a party and 19-year-old freshman cheerleader coach Victoria Schattauer for allegedly providing alcohol to a freshman at the party.

The school says Schattauer took the partially nude picture with the freshman.

"This is a little bit early in the investigation, but whatever measures are taken that is appropriate with eligiblity, discipline, that will be taken with our administration," Thomas said.

The cheerleader coach's stepfather tells me he did not know about the incident, but tells me he's very disappointed with his daughter's actions.

The mother of the freshman in the picture told me she had no comment tonight.

Meanwhile, parents with kids in the school are shocked.

"I would hope that parents would talk to their kids; it's not something that should be going around and not something that should be happening at a high school at all," parent Sarah Clift said.

That party apparently happened in Blanchester, so police there would determine whether to pursue any criminal charges.

As far as the school goes, again, both assistant coaches were fired today. That freshman could also be disciplined.

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