EXCLUSIVE: Father speaks out about Staten Island football hazing scandal

SEA VIEW (WABC) -- A dad is speaking exclusively to Eyewitness News after a hazing scandal at a high school in New York City. An investigation is currently underway, and the high school football team has been grounded.

The allegations of hazing at Susan Wagner High School in the Sea View section of Staten Island are violent at times, and include shooting at younger players with a BB gun, and sitting on their faces. So far a preseason game at the school has been cancelled. It is not clear if Saturday's opener will happen, and at least one football player has filed a formal complaint.

Eyewitness News spoke with the boy's father, who noticed strange markings on his son's legs after he got home from football camp. The 16-year-old eventually confessed, saying several varsity players drew the phallic symbol on him and others while they slept. This was just the beginning.

"These kids know when the coaches go to sleep - it's on. It's time to get busy. Let's go do what we got to do," said the father.

The father adds that there was a lot of crying from the Freshmen kids, and there was a lot of noise being made that night at training camp, that they didn't know how the coaches didn't hear it.

The father, who did not want to show his face or use his real name has a 16-year-old son who plays JV was a camp and told his dad he and roughly a dozen other teammates were repeatedly hazed.

"He would not want that to happen to any other or any more kids," the father adds.

The teen was sent to Camp Pontiac in August along with two busloads of football players from Susan Wagner and coaches. The father says that during their seven day stay, his son and others were repeatedly targeted by about six varsity players. He was shot at several times with a BB gun, and the kid missed, but there was another kid who was hit several times with the gun.

While they showered, the older boys allegedly hit the younger ones with socks filled with powder. On the final night they put their rear ends in kids' faces. This came to light after a freshman on the trip called the father, who found group text messages on his son's phone.

"Everyone delete the chat, don't let this get out," said one of the texts.

The boy's father, who believes police should be involved with this, did meet with the head coach and others who were at the camp. They told him they knew nothing about this.

One volunteer coach has been suspended, and the D.O.E. is investigating.