Tuscumbia City Schools says it’s still investigating the incident that nearly took the life of 15-year-old August Borden, a Deshler High School football player who had to be intubated for two days in the hospital with severe head and brain trauma after a so-called “freak accident” after football practice that left him fighting for his life.
Many in the community, including his family, believe the answers authorities claim to be seeking aren’t that hard to find and the Madison County DA’s version of events doesn’t line up with the boy’s injuries.
August’s own doctor says the skull and orbital bone fractures he suffered among other injuries are consistent with an “assault” and not a freak fall as coaches claim happened.
It seems the school selectively follows its own reporting and disciplinary policies. The “subject of interest” at the center of what happened to August is another student, the quarterback for the team Price Thornton.
The Madison County DA determined there was no criminal wrongdoing, but the official version of events has been inconsistent, contradictory, and ever-changing from the beginning.
With the police not filing a report for days until August’s daddy requested one and the school saying first that he fell all by himself, then later admitting another player “bear hugged him” until he passed out and he dropped him.
However, the school never disciplined any of the players allegedly involved with August’s injuries and kept playing football as if the boy didn’t exist.
As Pam Hill says, “Something ain’t right here!”
Join us for the latest episode of the Gulf Coast Confidential podcast, “August Borden IV, Overpriced thorn in the side of football in Tuscumbia.”
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