HAZE-Y DAZE: Hartwick College fraternity brothers Peter Torabkhan, Michael Scandiffio and Steve Collum (from left) have been charged in the sickening hazing.
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May 17, 2006 -- Three frat brothers - two from Manhattan and Queens - forced a pledge at their upstate college to do sit-ups and push-ups in broken glass and urine-soaked garbage, cops have charged.
Detectives found out about the alleged hazing at Hartwick College in Oneonta about three weeks after it happened in April - when the traumatized pledge and his mother turned up at a State Police station.
The youth, who suffered cuts on his hands and arms, also complained that the Alpha Chi Rho brothers had forced him to carry rocks covered in feces for two miles.
But local cops said that part of the ritual was OK.
Peter Torabkhan, 21, of Manhattan; Michael Scandiffio, 21, of Queens; and Steve Collum, 21, of Ballston Lake near Saratoga, were charged Monday with first-degree hazing.
Torabkhan and Scandiffio spent a night in jail before being sprung on $2,500 bail. Collum was released without bail.
A fourth man, Yury Pertsovsky, 19, of Brooklyn - who does not attend Hartwick - was charged with aggravated harassment.
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