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Hazing

Lower Paxton, PA
News
EX-Penn State Frat Leaders Sentenced For Hazing NJ Student To Death: PA AG EX-Penn State Frat Leaders Sentenced For Hazing NJ Student To Death: PA AG
Ex-penn State Frat Leaders Sentenced For Hazing NJ Student To Death: PA AG The former president and vice president of a frat at Penn State have been sentenced in connection with the death of a student from New Jersey, Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry announced on Tuesday, Oct. 1.  Timothy "Tim" J. Piazza, 19 of Lebanon, NJ, died at Hershey Medical Center in Hershey, PA, after being hazed at Beta Theta Pi fraternity on Saturday, February 4, 2017, according to his obituary and the AG's release.  Brendan Young, 28, of Malvern, Pennsylvania, and Daniel Casey, 27, of Ronkonkoma, New York, pleaded guilty to multiple misdemeanors including 14 …

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by Jillian Pikora
Bristol, PA
News
Penn State Alumnus Accused Of Beheading Gov't Employee Dad Sued US Feds For $10M: Court Docs Penn State Alumnus Accused Of Beheading Gov't Employee Dad Sued US Feds For $10M: Court Docs
Penn State Alumnus Accused Of Beheading Gov't Employee Dad Sued US Feds For $10M: Court Docs A 32-year-old man who is accused of beheading his dad and showing the head in a bizarre YouTube video — also attempted to sue the US government over his student loans.  Justin Mohn allegedly left his dad Michael F. Mohn's head in a cooking pot in a bedroom after showing it in a YouTube video on Tuesday, Jan. 30, police detailed in an affidavit of probable cause obtained by Daily Voice. Many years before this deadly behavior, Mohn did some unusual things, including filing a federal suit against Progressive Insurance in Colorado. In the suit, he claims that he was hazed and forced out o…

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by Jillian Pikora
Lynn, MA
News
Haverhill High School Football Coaches, Player Facing Hazing Charges: DA Haverhill High School Football Coaches, Player Facing Hazing Charges: DA
Haverhill High School Football Coaches, Player Facing Hazing Charges: DA The City of Haverhill took a staunch stance on hazing, charging multiple members of a high school football team with criminal charges relating to hazing, according to authorities.  Two coaches and one player from the Haverhill High School football team were charged in connection with a hazing incident on Tuesday, Dec. 20, the Essex County District Attorney's Office reports.  An investigation conducted by the Haverhill Police Department and the DA's Office found that the trio was allegedly part of an incident that targeted three different individuals between Aug.18 and Oct. 12…

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by Morgan Gonzales
Edison, NJ
Schools
Rutgers Frat Pledge Suffers Broken Skull, Brain Injury In Hazing Incident: Lawsuit Rutgers Frat Pledge Suffers Broken Skull, Brain Injury In Hazing Incident: Lawsuit
Rutgers Frat Pledge Suffers Broken Skull, Brain Injury In Hazing Incident: Lawsuit A 19-year-old Theta Chi pledge at Rutgers University is suing the school, the fraternity, its grand chapter, and more than a dozen fraternity brothers after falling down a flight of stairs in an alleged drunken hazing incident, leaving him seriously injured. Armand Runte, of Somers Point, was forced to drink "life-threatening" amounts of booze before tumbling down a flight of stairs at the Mine Street frat house in New Brunswick during "Big Brother Night" last month, according to a newly-filed lawsuit detailed by NJ Advance Media. The incident allegedly wasn't reported until hours later,&nb…

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by Cecilia Levine
Lynn, MA
Schools
Haverhill High School Football Season Ends Amid Alleged Hazing Video: Report Haverhill High School Football Season Ends Amid Alleged Hazing Video: Report
Haverhill High School Football Season Ends Amid Alleged Hazing Video: Report The remainder of Haverhill High School's football season was cut short as authorities are investigating an alleged hazing incident, Boston25 reports. Future practices were canceled and games forfeited after a video leaked showing members of the team allegedly hazing and sexually harassing a young man, the outlet continues.  Members of the coaching staff have also been placed on paid administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation, which is being jointly investigated by Haverhill Police. BREAKING: Haverhill cancels rest of its high school football season, forfeits games, c…

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by David Cifarelli
Lower Paxton, PA
Schools
10 Teens Charged For 'Sexual Hazing' At Central PA High School: DA 10 Teens Charged For 'Sexual Hazing' At Central PA High School: DA
10 Teens Charged For 'Sexual Hazing' At Central PA High School: DA A month-long investigation into allegations of hazing on a high school football team has led to charges against 10 teenagers, according to the Dauphin County District attorney's office.  The Middletown Area school district began investigating a hazing that happened on August 11, 2022—after a cellphone video film by high school football players was shared on social media. The high school's football team's season was canceled after a second video surfaced on Wednesday, August 24. Both videos show incidents of hazing happening in the "high school turf room for heat acclimation pract…

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by Jillian Pikora
Alexandria, VA
News
Hazing Charges Dropped For 5 Former VCU Students After Pledge's Death Hazing Charges Dropped For 5 Former VCU Students After Pledge's Death
Hazing Charges Dropped For 5 Former VCU Students After Pledge's Death The hazing charges against five former Virginia Commonwealth University students have been dropped, according to NBC4 Washington. Back in September 2021, Loudoun County's Adam Oakes died while pledging the Delta Chi fraternity at VCU, after some of the older members told him to drink a large bottle of whiskey, the website said. Six of the 11 former students involved in the hazing pleaded guilty or no contest, but a prosecutor working on the case did not release the reason why the remaining five students had their charges dropped, NBC4 Washington said. Click here for the full story from NBC…

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by AJ Goldbloom
Lower Paxton, PA
Schools
Sexual Hazing 'Much More Widespread' Prompts PA School District To Cancel Football Season Sexual Hazing 'Much More Widespread' Prompts PA School District To Cancel Football Season
Sexual Hazing 'Much More Widespread' Prompts PA School District To Cancel Football Season An additional video of hazing at a central Pennsylvania high school prompts the district to reverse its decision and end its football season early.  The Middletown Area school district began investigating a hazing that happened on August 11, 2022—after a cellphone video film by high school football players was shared on social media— but on Wednesday, August 24, the school announced at least one more video.  Both videos show incidents of hazing happening in the "high school turf room for heat acclimation practice sessions," Dr. Chelton Hunter, Superintendent of Scho…

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by Jillian Pikora
Lower Paxton, PA
Schools
Children 'Not Penetrated' During Hazing Among Reasons PA School District Didn't End Football Children 'Not Penetrated' During Hazing Among Reasons PA School District Didn't End Football
Children 'Not Penetrated' During Hazing Among Reasons PA School District Didn't End Football UPDATE: The Middletown Area School District reversed its decision and cancelled the high school's football season after at least one more video of hazing surfaced, Dr. Chelton Hunter, Superintendent of Schools for the Middletown Area School District stated in a second letter on Wednesday, August 24. You can read about this change in the decision here.  ORIGINAL: Disturbing details about sexual hazing have been released as a central Pennsylvania school district announces that they will not end the football season early.  The Middletown Area school district began investigating a h…

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by Jillian Pikora
Fairfax, VA
News
Hazing Law In Memory Of Virginia University Student Takes Effect: Here's What It Means Hazing Law In Memory Of Virginia University Student Takes Effect: Here's What It Means
Hazing Law In Memory Of Virginia University Student Takes Effect: Here's What It Means A new law that took effect in Virginia July 1 could help prevent other university students from the fate of Adam Oakes. The 19-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University Delta Chi pledge was instructed by the brothers to chug 40 ounces of Jack Daniel's Whiskey during a fraternity event that began at 8 p.m. on Feb. 26, 2021. The 350-pound freshman had a blood alcohol level of .419 — the point where people lose consciousness and when death occurs. That was the case for Oakes, whose brothers left him at the scene to die. Eleven witnesses were charged in Oakes' death, though none with…

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by Cecilia Levine
Hampden-Silver Spring, PA
News
PA Frat Bro Among Five Sentenced In Student's Hazing Death: Report PA Frat Bro Among Five Sentenced In Student's Hazing Death: Report
PA Frat Bro Among Five Sentenced In Student's Hazing Death: Report A 21-year-old Pennsylvania man was among five fraternity brothers sentenced in the hazing death of a March 2021 Bowling Green University sophomore, NBC News reports. Stone Foltz, 20, was forced to drink an entire bottle of alcohol at a Pi Kappa Alpha initiation event at the Ohio school, and was found unconscious by a roommate after members dropped him off their apartment, officials said. Foltz died three days after he was taken off life support. Niall Sweeney, 21, of Erie, who pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence and hazing, was one of the two men who was sentenced to house arrest…

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by Jillian Pikora
Middletown, NJ
Police & Fire
Hazing, Sexual Assault Complaints Filed Against Wall Township High School Students Hazing, Sexual Assault Complaints Filed Against Wall Township High School Students
Hazing, Sexual Assault Complaints Filed Against Wall Township High School Students Juvenile complaints have been filed against an unspecified number of Wall Township High School students as a result of two separate investigations into hazing and sexual assault, authorities said. The juvenile complaints include attempted criminal sexual contact, criminal sexual contact and false imprisonment, according to Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey.  The hazing charges follow an investigation into a series of incidents that occurred during September and October 2021 in the Wall Township High School football team’s locker room, the pros…

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by Jon Craig
Middletown, NJ
Schools
7 Wall High School Students Suspended Days After Football Hazing Allegations: Report 7 Wall High School Students Suspended Days After Football Hazing Allegations: Report
7 Wall High School Students Suspended Days After Football Hazing Allegations: Report Seven Wall High School students were suspended last month in the wake of hazing allegations on the school's football team, NJ Advance Media reported. The suspensions lasted 10 days and were expected to be discussed during Tuesday's board meeting, the outlet said. It was not immediately clear if the students were football players, though the suspensions occurring days after the hazing allegations were reported. Nicholas Pizzulli was expected to be appointed "consultant for athletics," following the administrative leave of AD Tom Ridoux. Pizzulli was the interim athletic director for Say…

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by Jon Craig
Middletown, NJ
Schools
Monmouth Prosecutor Takes Lead On Wall HS Hazing, Sex Assault Investigations Monmouth Prosecutor Takes Lead On Wall HS Hazing, Sex Assault Investigations
Monmouth Prosecutor Takes Lead On Wall HS Hazing, Sex Assault Investigations The Monmouth County Prosecutor’s Office has assumed sole responsibility for separate investigations at Wall High School: One for allegations of hazing among the school's football team, and the other for purported sexual assaults of juveniles. Members of the Wall Township Police Department had been assisting during the early stages of these investigations, yet in order to avoid any appearance of impropriety, "the Department has since been walled off from participating further," according to Acting Monmouth County Prosecutor Lori Linskey. Acting Prosecutor Lori Linskey provides an update…

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by Jon Craig
Middletown, NJ
Schools
Sex Assaults, Football Hazing Incident Probed At NJ High School, Report Says Sex Assaults, Football Hazing Incident Probed At NJ High School, Report Says
Sex Assaults, Football Hazing Incident Probed At NJ High School, Report Says A sexual assault investigation is apparently under way at the same New Jersey school where a hazing investigation was launched earlier this week, according to an exclusive report by NJ Advance Media citing anonymous sources. The outlet reports that several females were sexually assaulted. These incidents are separate from the alleged hazing incident in which six older football players tried pinning down a younger athlete in the locker room as onlookers begged them to stop, as first reported by NJ Advance Media. Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office spokesman Christian Swendeman told Dail…

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by Cecilia Levine
Middletown, NJ
Sports
Locker Room Hazing Incident Cancels Wall HS Football Game, Report Says Locker Room Hazing Incident Cancels Wall HS Football Game, Report Says
Locker Room Hazing Incident Cancels Wall HS Football Game, Report Says Officials cancelled the Wall High School football team playoff game Friday due to an alleged hazing incident involving players, NJ Advance Media reports. Video footage shows six older players -- including one holding a mop or broomstick -- swarmed and tried pinning down a younger player in the locker room as others pleaded for them to stop, the outlet said in an exclusive report. Parents told the outlet they believe sodomy was being attempted. The Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office is apparently investigating, but did not immediately return Daily Voice's request for comment. Wall was set…

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by Cecilia Levine
North Hunterdon, NJ
News
LAWSUIT: Warren County Boarding School Wrestling Coach Ignored Years Of Harassment, Hazing LAWSUIT: Warren County Boarding School Wrestling Coach Ignored Years Of Harassment, Hazing
Lawsuit: Warren County Boarding School Wrestling Coach Ignored Years Of Harassment, Hazing A former Warren County boarding school wrestler has filed a lawsuit against the institution with claims that the team coach and other administrators ignored years of harassment and hazing by other team members. The former grappler, who joined the Blair Academy’s wrestling team in his 2016 freshman year, says in the suit that two older members assaulted him during a trip to a competition, NJHerald reports citing court records. During the alleged assault, the student was held down on a bed, pulled into a shower and stripped naked, according to the suit, filed in Sussex County Superior Court l…

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by Valerie Musson
Mount Pleasant, NY
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College Student From Westchester In Suspected Hazing Incident Dies College Student From Westchester In Suspected Hazing Incident Dies
College Student From Westchester In Suspected Hazing Incident Dies A teenage college student from Westchester who suffered cardiac arrest following a suspected hazing incident at the University at Buffalo last week has died, authorities announced on Wednesday, April 17. Sebastian Serafin-Bazan, 18, of Port Chester, was believed to have been ordered to perform exercises late Thursday night, April 11 into Friday morning, April 12 when he began experiencing physical distress. He was listed in critical condition at Buffalo General Medical Center following the incident that occurred at a fraternity house in Buffalo overnight on Custer Street up until his d…

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by Joe Lombardi
Mount Pleasant, NY
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College Student From Westchester In Critical Condition After Possible Hazing Incident College Student From Westchester In Critical Condition After Possible Hazing Incident
College Student From Westchester In Critical Condition After Possible Hazing Incident Click here for an updated story: College Student From Westchester In Suspected Hazing Incident Dies A college student from Westchester went into cardiac arrest after a possible fraternity hazing incident at the University at Buffalo. Sebastian Serafin-Bazan, 18, was believed to have been ordered to perform exercises late Thursday night, April 11 into Friday morning, April 12 when he began experiencing physical distress, The Buffalo News reported, citing police sources. Serafin-Bazan, of Port Chester, was listed in critical condition late Saturday and police are investigating how long …

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by Joe Lombardi
Fairfield, CT
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Westport Resident Among Penn State Frat Members Being Sued In Hazing Case Westport Resident Among Penn State Frat Members Being Sued In Hazing Case
Westport Resident Among Penn State Frat Members Being Sued In Hazing Case A Fairfield County man is one of more than two dozen fraternity brothers who is being sued by the parents of a Penn State student who died during a hazing incident in 2017. Donald Prior, of Westport, is one of 28 members of Beta Theta Pi who were named in a lawsuit by the parents of Timothy Piazza, who died at the age of 19 at a party at the frat house during pledging. The federal lawsuit was filed on the day before the two-year anniversary of Piazza’s death, when he suffered a traumatic brain injury, skull fracture and lacerated spleen. Piazza’s parents have settled with Penn State Univers…

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by Zak Failla