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Originally posted by CrimsonTide4
New info: ALL people involved have NO CURRENT ties to AKA. The girls participating were not eligible/not involved in a formal process & the girls "leading the process" were FORMER members of a suspended chapter...this means that they have no rights/priviledges pertaining to the Sorority.
Now, with that said, HOW do we stop those not actually affiliated with our organizations from using our name to perform ILLEGAL activities. My opinion, we should sue them on top of what other charges they may face.
NONE OF THOSE WORDS ARE MINE!!!!!
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Local News
Police say no hazing in 2 drownings
PLAYA DEL REY: Two women who drowned weren't involved in a sorority. A mother has suspicions.
By Josh Grossberg
DAILY BREEZE
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Two women drowned late Monday in rough waters off Playa del Rey in what one of the victim’s mothers says may have been a sorority hazing ritual. But Los Angeles police said late Tuesday that no hazing was involved.
Denying reports circulated earlier in the day, LAPD media relations officer Jason Lee said: “There was no hazing. No one was tied up or blindfolded — that information was not true.
“A bunch of girls were out in the water and unfortunately, sadly, these two girls were swept out,” he said.
Kenitha Saafir, 24, of Compton and Kristin High, 22, of Los Angeles went to Dockweiler State Beach with some friends about 11:30 p.m. Monday, according to police. Police were first notified when they received reports of screaming.
“When police got there, they found four witnesses who said two friends had gone into the ocean,” said Los Angeles police media relations officer Eduardo Funes. “Officers took off their leather equipment belts and boots and dove into the dark ocean. After a few minutes, they found the floating bodies of the two victims.”
Police and Los Angeles city fire crews attempted life-saving measures, but the women were dead at the scene, Funes said.
Although the incident is being investigated as an accidental drowning, High’s mother said she suspected the women died while participating in a sorority initiation rite. Both women were students at California State University, Los Angeles.
High, mother of a 2-year-old son, had been undergoing an initiation rite for the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, said Pat Fargas in a television interview.
“She’s crying back from her death to say stop this hazing,” Fargas said.
Fargas alleged the women had been undergoing initiation rituals for weeks and had been pushed into the water blindfolded and with their hands tied, according to KCAL Channel 9.
“I tried to talk to all of them this weekend and said stop it, and I’m gonna call and report this, and now it’s too late,” she said.
Betty James, the executive director of the sorority, said she was looking into the matter.
“The sorority expresses its condolences to the families and we’ll cooperate with the authorities in their investigation,” she said.”
Alpha Kappa Alpha has an anti-hazing policy adopted two years ago by the National Pan-Hellenic Council Inc., which includes representatives of nine historically black fraternities and sororities.
The policy calls for holding people who engage in hazing “personally liable to the victim and to answer to the law and the organization,” according to the Alpha Kappa Alpha Web site.
But a Cal State Los Angeles official said the sorority is not active on the campus.
“I think there’s some misinformation,” said spokeswoman Carol Selkin. “There’s no official chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha on the Cal State (Los Angeles) campus. This is a commuter campus. (Sororities) are not a big part of campus life.”
Selkin said the two women were students in good standing.
“We’re tremendously saddened by the loss of these students and we extend our deepest condolences to their families,” she said.
Whatever the women were doing in the water, they couldn’t have picked a worse time. Because of a tropical storm in Mexico, the waters were rough. Surf was 4 to 6 feet and there were riptides, lifeguards said.
“We had a good south swell coming in the past couple of days,” said Los Angeles County lifeguard Capt. David Story. “That particular area of Dockweiler was picking it up. It was dangerous even for an experienced swimmer.”
City News Service contributed to this article.
So no, those words were not that of CT4. 