S&M 'Slave School' Lawsuit Tossed When New Jersey Man Misses Court in Joliet

A New Jersey man’s lawsuit against his supposed business partner in an S&M “slave school” venture was tossed out when he failed to make it to court in Joliet.

When the court hearing began Wednesday afternoon, Joe Giamanco, the attorney for defendant Scott Baker of Romeoville, predicted plaintiff Dean Schoenewald wasn’t going to make it any time soon.

“I sincerely doubt it,” Giamanco told Will County Judge Bobbi Petrungaro. “I don’t think he’s going to be here.”

Giamanco then showed the judge an article from the Enid, OK, News about the arrest of a Dean Mitchell Schoenewald last month. Schoenewald, 54, held a 4-year-old boy at gunpoint and threatened to shoot him, the article said. He also allegedly menaced a woman with a pistol and bound her hands with duct tape.

Schoenewald was charged with first-degree burglary, feloniously pointing a firearm, kidnapping, possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony, and a protective order violation, the story said. A representative of the Kingfisher County, OK, Sheriff’s Department confirmed they were handling the Schoenewald case but said he had not yet been taken to their detention facility.

Patch contacted Schoenewald by phone after he filed his lawsuit in January. Schoenewald, who said he lives in Atlantic City, claimed in the lawsuit that Baker “withdrew from any and all participation in our start-up ‘BDSM slave school’ business, failing to adhere to our agreement and signed contract.”

Schoenewald said it was Baker’s fault the slave school never got off the ground and that he wanted him to pay $14,840.

“This is a sexual revolution that’s going on,” Schoenewald proclaimed at the time. Schoenewald said the market for sadomasochism is a veritable goldmine and pointed to the erotic romance sensation Fifty Shades of Grey as proof.

“In one month in 2012 it made $95 million,” Schoenewald said.

The slave school was to exist online, Schoenewald said, but he gave few other details.

“I don’t want to unveil that now,” he said, adding, “This is consenting adults having fun.”

Giamanco was skeptical there was any slave school business at all.

“A lot of this he’s conjured up,” Giamanco said.

“It appears to come down to nothing more than a scam my client fell victim to,” he said. “And now it’s an abuse of the legal system.”

In fact, after Patch publicized the lawsuit, numerous individuals claiming to have been victimized by Schoenewald reached out to Giamanco, the attorney said.

“Other people from across the country have contacted us (about) other issues they’ve had with him, scams he’s pulled,” Giamanco said.

On Wednesday, Schoenewald was supposed to produce a written contract between Baker and himself that he claims to have. While Judge Petrungaro dismissed the lawsuit, she allowed the absent Schoenewald 28 days to show up with the contract.

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