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Originally posted by IowaHawkeye
I'm pretty sure there's laws against seeing a crime being committed (like hazing) and not doing anything to stop it.
I think every single person that was there that day and participated even in the slightest should be punished equally with the rest of them. I don't care if one of them was comforting a girl as she was being beaten or made to eat feces - she still didn't stop it and that's just as sick and actually doing it.
This is the first time I've chimed in on this subject... i find it sick. I went to a private all-girls high school in chicago and this type of behavior NEVER happened there.
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Friends of my family, when their kids were in high school, witnessed a fight, but did nothing to stop it. The loser ended up in the hospital, and the parents of the witnesses ended up in court - they were sued for not stopping the fight for 25,000 each (I think there were five or six families, this was back in 1981-2) - and the family of the losing fighter WON.
There are more than simple criminal damages - the civil damage fallout from this should be very interesting indeed....