OK you're saying he was already a member and not a pledge and that he wanted to be beaten so it's not hazing.
If I told you I enjoyed pain and wanted you to stab me in my stomach, what would the police do to you? You can call it BGLO culture, but at some point culture becomes irrelevant.
A woman allows a man to beat her and essentially gives him permission to do so because she is in some sort of abusive relationship.
This kid was beaten. He obviously didn't beat himself. He identified who beat him.
Just for being fair and because I don't like stupidity, I'd send the guy who got beaten to jail too if it could be proved he asked for it.
-Rudey
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Originally posted by msn4med1975
Sorry I just read this thread today. Rudey if you had read other articles on the case you would have seen that both he and the person that he was with were being POST PLEDGED and had been intiated nearly a year before I think it was but didn't feel as though they were being respected. They were part of the chapter coming back to campus and had done things "by the book" and were not being "embraced" in the manner I guess they felt entitled to. Both he and another young man OPTED to go through a "process" in order to gain that respect.
As for the judge, the only person that would have potentially been done a disservice by him remaining on the case AND being a Sigma would have been the accuser not the accused. From all reports nothing inappropriate was done with evidence or statements to the jury so the judge really did what he was supposed to do. The problem comes in with the defense witnesses, as someone already said, who were frat brothers of the defendents and who MAY have been willing to provide alibis. But then again they could have swung by the frat house on the way to beat the boys behind so they technically weren't lying. Regardless, I think this is more of a problem within BGLO life than could have been reasonably represented in a court case with people unfamiliar with that culture.
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