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_ Prosecutor declines to charge frat with hazing is dousing incidentfor urine dousing
By the Associated Press

Published January 24, 2004

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- A fraternity at the University of Virginia will not face hazing charges for dousing a pledge with vinegar and urine, a prosecutor said.
"Hazing, as defined in the criminal code, was not supported because there was no serious bodily harm," Charlottesville Commonwealth's Attorney Dave Chapman said.


Chapman had been reviewing the case of a 19-year-old student who said he and other pledged at Delta Sigma Phi were doused with vinegar and urine and endured other violent and disgusting hazing rituals as part of a pledge ritual on Oct. 28.
While declining to press hazing charges, Chapman said Saam Fouladgar, a student at the university from Dunn Loring, has been charged with trespassing and destruction of property for an incident that occurred at an apartment on the morning of Oct. 28.
Friends and roommates of the sophomore who filed the hazing complaint called police after two men were seen entering the sophomore's apartment and later throwing furniture into the parking lot. The sophomore's identity has been withheld by police.
Fouladgar is due in Charlottesville General District Court on Feb. 20. The charges, each misdemeanors, carry a maximum penalty of 12 months in jail and/or a $2,500 fine.