Coach Who Whipped Players Back On Payroll
December 20, 2010 /
WAPT.com (Jackson, Miss.)
JACKSON, Miss. — After being suspended for whipping basketball players with a weight belt, a Murrah basketball coach will be back on the payroll on Monday.
Coach Marlon Dorsey was caught on a cell phone camera taking a weight belt to players.He, his assistant coach, Murrah High School’s principal and the Jackson Public school district are all the targets of a civil suit filed by several of the players’ parents.
Dorsey’s attorney told a local paper that he will return to Murrah as head basketball coach and teacher when classes start again in January.
JPS suspended Dorsey without pay in October.