The defendants haven’t given responses to the allegations yet, but they have filed to move the case here to federal court because it involves federal statutes
The lawsuit was filed by the parents of JU runner Julia Pernsteiner, who died by suicide in November 2021. She alleged the coach emotionally abused her and other athletes, even speaking to a Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office police officer about it weeks before her death.
“Everyone here is done with you, like you’re the slowest f****** runner on the planet, like you’re an awful person, like all this stuff, just like yelling at me,” Pernsteiner told JSO.According to an incident report, Pernsteiner notified a doctor through an online portal that she was being abused by her coach and felt unsafe.During the conversation, the officer explained that the emotional abuse Pernsteiner alleges against her and other runners isn’t a crime.
“She was getting ahold of a ton of former athletes, employees and stuff. She was taking their statements, she knew she wasn’t alone. And she saw the big picture of all that,” Lynne Pernsteiner said previously. “So I think she saw how much she had and felt that nobody was doing anything.” “One is the ADA, the Americans with Disabilities Act, which, of course, is one of the grounds, and the other is Title IX, which is the education statute that governs all universities in the United States,” Fallgatter explained.
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