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Excerpt from Edmonton Journal
Four more Alberta students suspended over hazing
Edmonton JournalSeptember 4, 2009
EDMONTON — Four more students at an Alberta high school were suspended Friday, bringing the number of teens facing expulsion over an alleged hazing incident last weekend to 12.
The students will remain suspended pending an expulsion hearing, said Battle River School Division spokeswoman Diane Hutchinson.
She did not say whether the latest students confessed to officials at Central High Sedgewick Public School, or were identified by their peers.
Sedgewick is about 200 kilometres southeast of Edmonton.
The division has also passed along any information they have gathered to the RCMP, who continue to investigate.
Excerpt: WILLINGBORO – The Board of Education has settled a lawsuit filed by a former Willingboro High School football player, who alleged he was physically and sexually abused by teammates during a hazing incident at a summer sports camp in 2006.
The board agreed to pay a “substantial amount” to settle the case with the student and his mother, who were plaintiffs in the 2007 complaint. The terms of the settlement called for the exact amount to be kept confidential.
The boy had sought unspecified damages; the court documents state he had accrued about $3 million in medical bills and other costs.
No taxpayer money was used to pay the settlement, according to the teenager’s attorney, John Borbi of Evesham.