Post by Troopa1911 on Jan 28, 2010 15:59:57 GMT -5
Six Rutgers coeds busted in sorority hazing
BY Bill Hutchinson
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, January 28th 2010, 4:00 AM
A Rutgers University sorority was shut down and six members arrested for brutally hazing young pledges, including one who had to be hospitalized, cops said.
The sisters of Sigma Gamma Rho were accused yesterday of paddling pledges on the buttocks so severely they were not able to sit, police officers at the New Jersey university said. Among the six sorority sisters arrested was Llana Warner, 20, of the Bronx, who was charged with felony aggravated hazing.
"They told us there was no hazing, that they didn't believe in it," one of the battered pledges told the Newark Star Ledger.
Once she and the other pledges were surrounded by the sadistic sisters from the New Brunswick campus, they were forced to submit to beatings with wooden paddles over an eight-day period.
The pledge said she was struck more than 200 times, leaving her buttocks covered with blood clots and welts. In too much pain to sit, the student's mother took her to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, where officials alerted the campus officials and police. University officials immediately suspended the sorority.
Also arrested were Vanessa Adegbite, 21, of Jersey City; Joana Bernard, 21, of West Orange, N.J.; Kesha Cheron, 20, of Newark; Shawna Ebanks, 21, of East Orange, and Marie Charles, 21, of West Orange.
The pledges were told the purpose of the beatings was to humble them and build trust between them and their sorority sisters.
Sigma Gamma Rho, an African-American sorority founded in 1922, does not have an official Rutgers sorority house. The hazing occurred at a student apartment building and off campus, cops said.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/01/28/2010-01-28_six_rutgers_coeds_busted_in_sorority_hazing.html#ixzz0dw3ecrEZ
BY Bill Hutchinson
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Thursday, January 28th 2010, 4:00 AM
A Rutgers University sorority was shut down and six members arrested for brutally hazing young pledges, including one who had to be hospitalized, cops said.
The sisters of Sigma Gamma Rho were accused yesterday of paddling pledges on the buttocks so severely they were not able to sit, police officers at the New Jersey university said. Among the six sorority sisters arrested was Llana Warner, 20, of the Bronx, who was charged with felony aggravated hazing.
"They told us there was no hazing, that they didn't believe in it," one of the battered pledges told the Newark Star Ledger.
Once she and the other pledges were surrounded by the sadistic sisters from the New Brunswick campus, they were forced to submit to beatings with wooden paddles over an eight-day period.
The pledge said she was struck more than 200 times, leaving her buttocks covered with blood clots and welts. In too much pain to sit, the student's mother took her to Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, where officials alerted the campus officials and police. University officials immediately suspended the sorority.
Also arrested were Vanessa Adegbite, 21, of Jersey City; Joana Bernard, 21, of West Orange, N.J.; Kesha Cheron, 20, of Newark; Shawna Ebanks, 21, of East Orange, and Marie Charles, 21, of West Orange.
The pledges were told the purpose of the beatings was to humble them and build trust between them and their sorority sisters.
Sigma Gamma Rho, an African-American sorority founded in 1922, does not have an official Rutgers sorority house. The hazing occurred at a student apartment building and off campus, cops said.
Read more: www.nydailynews.com/news/2010/01/28/2010-01-28_six_rutgers_coeds_busted_in_sorority_hazing.html#ixzz0dw3ecrEZ
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