Protection order cancelled after two Warren JFK students reach unspecified agreement

Staff report

WARREN

A civil-protection order hearing scheduled for Monday related to two John F. Kennedy High School students was not needed after the parties settled the dispute.

Patrick McCarthy, a Trumbull County Common Pleas Court magistrate, would have presided over the hearing.

It would have determined whether a temporary protection order that McCarthy approved Sept. 22 would be extended.

The order prohibited Dominic Alberini from attending the school until Monday’s hearing.

The father of the other student, when reached after the hearing was canceled, declined to comment on the matter, including what the settlement entailed.

It is not known whether Alberini will be allowed to return to school.

The temporary order was granted after a hearing in which testimony by a female student at the school was provided to McCarthy.

The girl’s father asked the court for the protection order because of a 2014 incident in which Alberini and another boy videotaped the girl changing into a swimsuit at a pool party.

Both boys were sentenced to seven days of detention in the county Juvenile Justice Center in August 2015 after pleading “true” to a felony voyeurism charge related to the incident.

The parties also are involved in a civil case filed by Alberini, in which he asked a common pleas court judge to order John F. Kennedy High School to allow Alberini to attend the school.

The school notified Alberini in June that it had denied him admission.

That case was delayed to await the outcome of Monday’s protection order hearing.

No new hearing date has been set in that case.

Judge W. Wyatt McKay initially granted a temporary restraining order in that case that forced the school to allow Alberini to attend.

The Vindicator attempted to learn more about the settlement from the girl’s father, but he declined to comment after the parties left the courthouse.