Posted on 06/20/2022 1:21:13 AM PDT by Morgana
Two frat boys from the University of Missouri have been charged in connection with a 19-year-old at the school who was left blind and unable to walk or talk after being forced to down a family-sized bottle of Tito's vodka.
Ryan Delanty and Thomas Shultz were indicted Friday in Missouri's Boone County in connection with the treatment of Daniel Santulli, a teenager whose family say was forced to drink until his heart stopped last October during pledge month at Phi Gamma Delta. Shultz is facing an additional felony charge of tampering with physical evidence.
He has been left permanently and severely disabled as a result, in what his family's lawyer says is the worst-known incident of hazing abuse in US history.
Santulli's family has previously filed civil suits against 23 members of Phi Delta Gamma but this is the first time anyone has been criminally charged.
It's unclear if Delanty and Shultz have been named as defendants in that civil suit.
The two young men are charged with felony hazing and misdemeanors of supplying liquor to a minor or intoxicated person.
Santulli was force-fed beer through a tube and told to down an entire bottle of vodka by his 'fraternity fathers,' including Delanty. At the end of the night, Santulli had a shocking .468 blood alcohol level, six times the legal limit in Missouri.
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That fraternity should be permanently disbanded, and everyon involved should be criminally prosecuted to the maximum extent of the law.
I’m guessing that fraternity isn’t a very large one.
That charter was kicked off campus but the boys involved need serious criminal charges brought up.
They should be hit with every charge the DA can find to hit them with.
Why no pictures of the perps?
I wonder if these frat boys would try doing this to a guy who is 6’6” and 300 pounds?
are these young men that stupid to think pouring alcohol down someone’s throat is going to work out well?.....I am just amazed here in 2022 that is still happening....
Is Hollywood still making Van Wilder movies?
I’m sure they all had seen that episode in Animal House in which Belushi downed an entire bottle of fake whiskey in one gulp. So, they figured that doing it in real life wouldn’t be a problem.
I am amazed too. Do these bird brained idiots actually have two functioning brain cells?
In the past new lieutenants assigned to the parachute infantry companies of the 82nd were expected down without stopping the pure liquor contents of a polished 155 shell. This ended in the 60’s when one lieutenant choked to death before anything could be done. I don’t know the career impact on the ring of company and junior field grade officers around this fellow when he choked to death.
This example is proof almost anything can be used as a weapon to hurt another human.
I once drank a liter of vodka and my breathing got so messed up and if not for me getting sick, the adults would have taken me to the ER. I feel badly for this young man...
That’s not hazing, it’s assault and battery and attempted manslaughter.
I pledged my local fraternity in 1987. There was no alcohol involved until after pledging was done and we were celebrating as new actives, and it was a party at a bar.
This crap has no place in a pledging program.
Something seriously wrong with them
Agreed
I’ll be the odd man out here. The supposed victim is also to blame and maybe the parents if they’re also alma mater of the same school or sorority or encouraged him to join.
Wanting to be in a sorority is nothing more than BS status look at me crap. Doing what you’re told to join one when you know it ain’t right and can have consequences which are obvious here. The kid made bad choices period.
Someone gives me a fifth and tells me to drink it I probably would over the course of a couple months.
No one can make you drink it down, no one can make you take anything or do anything unless you choose to... Your choice.. no one else’s.
A family sized bottle of vodka? Is that such a thing? Does one go shopping for vodka for the whole family?
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