Coastal Carolina Hooking Squad
Last week, Coastal Carolina suspended their entire cheerleading program and prevented the team from going to nationals. The school would not elaborate on any details regarding this matter. There were reports from an anonymous team member that the school had suspended them over a prostitution ring. The cheerleaders were denying these allegations. Deadspin.com had a public records request and released the results of the investigation.
According to the Deadspin report it all started when five letters were sent to the school’s president alleging that the cheerleaders had been working as escorts, stripping at strip clubs, recruiting younger cheerleaders to join them, and facilitating “rampant use of alcohol”. Text messages between cheerleaders and several interviews were conducted by the campus police investigator to conclude that a few cheerleaders had worked as escorts through SeekingArrangement.com. The cheerleaders earned between $100 and $1500 per date. Everyone involved claims that they never had sex for money with any of their dates. Several of the team members were working as shot girls at a Myrtle Beach strip club called Thee Dollhouse. One of the cheerleaders sent a text message urging her teammates to delete the SeekingArrangement app from their phones and stay away from the strip clubs while the investigation was going on.
The investigator is conducting more interviews and gathering more evidence. This is not an ongoing criminal investigation as the evidence presented currently shows no one on the cheerleading team broke any laws. The school has not explained which rules anyone on the team has supposedly broken to deserve the suspension.
First thing that immediately raised my curiosity while reading about this scandal was the fact that these girls are receiving up to $1500 but never had sex with these guys? There is no way any guy is paying that much money just to “hang out”. Sure women sign up for this SeekingArrangment app and expect guys paying $1500 plus clothes and designer bags to just expect nothing more than a pretty face to look at. All in all this is a brilliant plan by these girls. College tuition is expensive and this gig definitely pays more than working at the student union. If these guys are crazy enough to pay that much money for sex and both parties agree then there isn’t any issue in my eyes. I just don’t agree with these girls trying to say that they were basically just really expensive dinner dates.