More developments in the Desdunes case:
http://www.ithacaindy.com/2012022167...duct-tape-used
“Cornell University student George Desdunes was found unconscious in a fraternity house with a noose tied tightly around his neck and hands and feet wrapped with duct tape and zip ties, according to new court documents part of a $25 million wrongful death lawsuit against Sigma Alpha Epsilon and several former students of the Ithaca, NY-based Ivy League school.
The claim is part of a lawsuit filed June 27 by Desdunes' mother, Marie Lourdes Andre. The legal claim . . . is being challenged by SAE, which wants to lawsuit moved to Tompkins County. In the lawsuit, Andre charges a cleaning service employee found Desdunes on a couch at the SAE fraternity house Feb. 25, 2011. The student later died at Cayuga Medical Center.
"The lawsuit claims that after a hazing event in which he was tied up and given alcohol by pledge members, Desdunes became so intoxicated that he 'required immediate medical treatment. Instead, he was taken by the pledges, still bound at the wrists and ankles, and dumped on a couch in the SAE house where he was unattended and left to die,'" reports the Cornell Daily Sun.”
(The Sun's article is at the address below.)
http://www.cornellsun.com/section/ne...ompkins-county
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