How bad do some people have it in America right now? So bad that an 18 year-old in Central Florida — where things are particularly bad — recently turned to performing in gay porn to support his single mother, who’s apparently been unable to find work.
“I think he’s the most awesome person in the world,” Melyssa Lieb told Orlando’s WKMG about her son, Robert Marucci. “He stood up and he was the man of the house when I couldn’t be.”
While Lieb may be fine with her son doing what he needed to do to best help her out, the principal at the high school he attends, Dr. Stephanie Soliven, did not feel similarly after students discovered some of Marucci’s performances online, so she expelled him.
Marucci said he became the target of bullies, and now he said the school wants him gone.
“I feel like I have been treated unfairly and this is unjust,” Marucci said. “This was completely legal. I didn’t break any laws, and this took place out of the school.”
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After word spread about his explicit pictures, Marucci said administrators expelled him, saying he was a major disruption. In a referral slip, administrators wrote that he threatened to brings weapons to the school — something he denies. His mother believes the alleged threats were not the real reason behind his punishment. Despite the allegations of threats, Lieb said the principal told her, “He was expelled due to his explicit lifestyle career.”
“I think that it is Dr. [Stephanie] Soliven’s morals and her personal beliefs and I don’t think that this is anybody’s business except for my son’s,” said Lieb. “The children at the school found it [the porn] and she didn’t do anything to stop it.”
If that weren’t enough, Dr. Soliven has reportedly also threatened to expel any student who shows support for Marucci by wearing pro-Marucci t-shirts or making pro-Marucci signs at Cocoa High School.
I have a feeling Dr. Soliven is about to have all kinds of hell rain down on her, and few people are probably more deserving of it right now.