Author: Hank Nuwer

Excerpt A second Vernal Junior High School wrestler has been ordered to serve at least 22 days in a youth detention center for his role in a sexually based hazing incident on a school bus.

The 14-year-old entered an admission this week in 8th District Juvenile Court to an amended allegation of attempted forcible sex abuse, which would be a third-degree felony if the boy were an adult.

In exchange for his plea, Duchesne County prosecutors agreed to request the dismissal of a hazing allegation against the teen.

The boy — one of three wrestlers referred to juvenile court following an incident last year on a Uintah School District bus — was ordered to perform 188 hours of community service and undergo a sexual behavior risk assessment, in addition to serving time in the Split Mountain Youth Detention Center.

The teen must also complete any treatment recommended as a result of the risk assessment.

On Dec. 4, the three teens engaged in individual lewd acts at the back of a bus returning from a wrestling tournament in Morgan, according to the Duchesne County Sheriff’s Office.

They then wiped bodily fluids on their teammates, investigators said. The incident was recorded by surveillance cameras in the bus.

In February, one of the wrestlers entered an admission to attempted forcible sex abuse in exchange for the dismissal of the hazing count.

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Kicks to groin, etc.

The University of Michigan’s chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon has been expelled after hazing allegations, the Michigan Daily reports. The fraternity had previously been on suspension since early Feb.

The Daily has more:

The fraternity’s suspension came after an e-mail was sent to the University’s Office of Greek Life from a parent who disclosed various hazing activities — like forcing fraternity pledges to perform physical tests on while members shouted and threw tennis balls at them — her son was forced to endure as an SAE pledge.On March 7, the national organization made public its choice to maintain the University chapter — though it will be kept under “colony status” starting in the fall, according to the press release.

According to e-mails obtained by the Detroit Free Press, pledges were subject to a number of alleged abuses:

The e-mail said, “Brothers shot Airsoft guns, threw eggs, poked and tripped them with broomsticks, poured buckets of flour on them.”The e-mail said the next night was entertainment: “Brothers taking hockey slap-shots at the pledge class using tennis balls as hockey pucks” and “brothers violently kicking pledges in the groin to ensure that they were wearing athletic support cups.”

Further allegations detail how pledges were were forced to drink “drink regurgitated water with goldfish in it,” the Free Press reports.

The fraternity may redevelop next year, although current members may be subject to further discipline from the university.

THE Army’s 10th Infantry Division denied allegations of hazing as part of recruits’ training.

A video was posted recently on the Internet showing Army’s 9th Infantry Division trainers beating up more than 100 draftees clad only in black short pants. The video also showed whips, punches on recruits’ faces, and kicks on their bodies.

But Lieutenant Colonel Lyndon V. Paniza, spokesperson of the 10th ID and chief of the Army’s 72nd Infantry Battalion, said the videos shows simulation exercises of the soldiers in case they are captured by the New People’s Army (NPA).

“In fact, it was situational and memory training just in case ,,,,” Paniza said.

Here is the Cottonwood story

Excerpt from Dothan (Ala.) Eagle

Six Cottonwood High School seniors will likely face expulsion from school after a hazing incident that occurred on March 17.

Houston County School Superintendent Tim Pitchford said the incident occurred on a bus ride back from a baseball game. Pitchford said six seniors hazed members of the junior varsity team. Pitchford declined to comment on the specifics of the hazing incident.

He said a disciplinary committee is meeting to recommend a punishment for the students. Possible disciplinary actions range from 11 to 45 days in alternative school

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Excerpt from Lahontan Valley News

Details of two investigations into allegations of failure to report a December hazing incident by coaches and staff at Churchill County High School have been released.

City of Fallon attorney Lem Mackedon said his office reviewed the reports from the Fallon Police Department and the Churchill County School District and found no criminal wrongdoing.

Mackedon said misdemeanor failure to report charges will not be filed against Principal Kevin Lords, Athletic Director Brad Daum and coaches Mitch Overlie and Matt Reibsamen. Mackedon added his office has been in constant contact with the Churchill County District Attorney’s Office about the investigations and said the DA’s office reviewed the reports as well and found no criminal negligence.

Overlie and Reibsamen will appear at a prediscipline hearing Tuesday where recommendations from the district will be provided to the board of trustees to determine any possible consequences.

Mackedon said he is checking other parts of the report to see if they can be release as part of public record.