Posted on 05/21/2003 2:25:28 PM PDT by Land_of_Lincoln_John
Two adults and a student were charged today with supplying alcohol to suburban Chicago high school students involved in the videotaped brutal hazing.
Cook County State's Attorney Richard Devine said one woman was charged with purchasing three kegs of beer, two of which were found at the forest preserve where the hazing took place. Another woman was accused of allowing her home to be used for underaged drinking.
The student was charged with unlawful possession of alcohol by a minor. Devine said that student brought the kegs to the May 4 ``powder puff'' event where Glenbrook North High School senior girls hazed junior girls.
Also today, a federal judge denied an emergency motion to send back to state court a lawsuit by a Glenbrook North student contesting her suspension over the hazing.
(Excerpt) Read more at chicagotribune.com ...
I do recognize that we can only show excerpts from Chicago Tribune though (as per the LA Times, Washington Post ruling).
Really stinks, doesn't it? By the way, the article has been revised a bit, giving the names of the accused.
Are you referring to the staff attorneys for the lawfirm of Death, Famine, War and Pestilence?
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Christine Neal, of the 1100 block of Waukegan Road in Northbrook, will be charged with going to a Glenview liquor store the Thursday before the Sunday fracas, sources said. Neal is the mother of Dominic Vargas, 18, who was one of 15 Glenbrook North seniors charged last week with misdemeanor battery in the videotaped violence that thrust the Northbrook school into the international spotlight.
Neal allegedly accompanied her son on May 1 to the store, where she put down a deposit on a keg of beer, then returned with him on Friday to pick up the keg that was taken to the park.
Also charged will be Marcy Spiwak, of the 3700 block of Whirlaway Dr. in Northbrook, the mother of one of the junior girls, sources said. They said Spiwak allowed juniors to meet at her house where they drank allegedly with her knowledge before the hazing.
Yes, I know the Spiwak woman. Her daughter and mine were in a dance class together several years ago, and her younger daughter attends the same jr. high as my son. The students from this jr. high are from both Northbrook and Glenview, the former being the ones who go to Glenbrook North, and the latter going to Glenbrook South, after they graduate from high school.
The thing is........... these aren't the parents whom I heard were involved..... but ...... as the article in the Tribune indicates, more might be charged as more details come out..... or more people (ahem) talk.
I'm glad to hear there are some parents being charged. That'll send a big wakeup call to the other parents around here who apparently think it's really "cool" to furnish alcoholic beverages just so their kids will be included in the "in" crowd.
On Saturday, about 20 juniors and their parents watched a videotape with Cook County prosecutors at the courthouse in Skokie, said parent Marcy Spiwak of Northbrook.
"When you watch the movie and slow it down, the girls were able to see who was doing what to whom," said Spiwak, who said her daughter was covered with fish guts and excrement, but not singled out for abuse.
"Some of the girls were really getting hit, kicked, punched, and one was getting shot with a paint ball," Spiwak said. "Another girl had a black eye. Someone shoved meat down a vegetarian's mouth."
Spiwak said her older daughter participated in the hazing six years ago without any of the violence.
"They also had kegs of beer," Spiwak said. "Nobody was hurt. What they used was ketchup, mustard, eggs and flour. There was no violence. I don't even feel the alcohol is part of this."
Spiwak said her younger daughter paid $30 for a jersey and $12 toward beer for the seniors.
(AND apparently the juniors......... but Spiwak fails to mention that little detail in this earlier story.)
"It might not be right, especially because of the liquor, but it was harmless," Spiwak said. "This year, it was just ridiculous. It was sick. I think a lot of it had to do with what happened to the girls last year. They took it out on the juniors this year."
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