Posted on 08/11/2018 12:28:37 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
Three of four men received jail time and a national Asian-American fraternity was barred from doing business in Pennsylvania Monday in connection with the December 2013 hazing death of a college student in the Pocono Mountains.
Kenny Kwan, Charles Lai, Raymond Lam and Sheldon Wong — all fraternity brothers of Pi Delta Psi — were sentenced after pleading guilty in May to manslaughter as accomplices and hindering apprehension in the death of Chun Hsien "Michael" Deng, an 18-year-old at Baruch College in Manhattan who was pledging to the fraternity when he died.
Blindfolded and wearing a backpack, Deng was forced to walk in the backyard in the early morning hours through a line of fraternity members who allegedly pushed, shoved and tackled him in an attempt to bring him down, court records state.
Judge Margherita Patti-Worthington, of the Court of Common Pleas of Monroe County, sentenced Wong and Lam each to 10 to 24 months incarceration; Kwan to a term of 12 to 24 months; and Lai to time served, according to attorneys for several of the defendants. Each sentence will be followed by seven years probation, according to Kimberly A. Metzger, a prosecutor with the Monroe County Office of the District Attorney.
Wong’s attorney, Steven Brill, and Lam’s lawyer, Todd Greenberg, said their clients were taken into custody following the hearing and began serving their sentences in county jail immediately.
Both Brill and Greenberg said there were no plans to appeal the conviction or sentencing.
“There were no winners today or in this case,” Brill said. “Michael Deng has died. Sheldon Wong’s life is shattered and uncertain. But this sentence is reasonable enough that it allows Sheldon to get out and continue on the productive road that he was on before this night ever happened.”
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Fraternities are twisted and sick.
Funny, for the last 10 years I’ve had an apt. across the street from Baruch and never knew about fraternities or hazing! I mean, it doesn’t have a campus.
“Fraternities are twisted and sick.”
That’s a pretty general statement. Can you explain further?
I guess you can call it a Baruch Assault.
“Fraternities are twisted and sick.”
Hard to argue that one...never let my kids near them.
At my daughter’s school, she said one of the boy’s butts was purple from paddling during initiation, what twisted shi8t is this?
My son was branded on his leg with the fraternity seal. It’s part of being accepted into the fraternity. I would call that sick $hit. However it’s been going on for 100 years.
On the flip side, they have raised a lot of money for wounded warriors and have done other things for veterans. My son was President in his senior year and participated in the secret rituals. I flat out told him if they are hazing recruits I would personally shut them down, especially since I know the president of the university.
Frats work directly against what should be the overall aim of a collegial atmosphere on campus. They foster “elitism”, and attempt to disabuse their members of God given rights.
Frats are cancer.
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