University students severely injured in an alleged hazing incident now taking legal action The Freshman suing his school and the fraternity he was pledging this morning 19 year old Armand runty is struggling to recover after a near-death trauma at a fraternity party in March left him with multiple skull fractures
Armand suffered a traumatic brain injury he to this day now nine months later he continues to suffer the consequences of that according to a lawsuit filed against Rutgers University at least a dozen students and the fraternity he was pledging Theta Kai The Freshman was allegedly encouraged and or forced to
Consume life-threatening amounts of alcohol which caused him to become intoxicated and fall down this flight of stairs hitting his head the lawsuit claiming upon realizing the grave consequences of their conduct the fraternity defendants unsuccessfully sought to conceal evidence of their hazing and underage alcohol violations according to the police report including
The lawsuit the incident was reported nearly three hours later his lawyer says runty spent months in the hospital with potentially permanent damage to his nervous system according to his attorney he’s had major surgery he hasn’t been able to return to school he has not returned to normal function the
Incidents similar to the 2017 event that cost Penn State student Timothy Piazza his life the 19 year old consuming large amounts of alcohol and falling down a flight of stairs while pledging a fraternity a closed circuit camera showing he lay injured for more than 12 hours his frat brothers serving jail
Time over the incident and last fall 18 year old Danny centulli nearly died after authorities say he was pressured to drink an entire bottle of vodka at a pledging event at the University of Missouri this surveillance video shows him falling backwards he’ll need care for life which is still not talking or
Walking he’s in a wheelchair he lost his vision Theta Kai has not commented on pending litigation but told ABC news they have a strict policy against hazing during any part of the Fraternal experience and Rutgers has a policy that says no alcohol shall be present at fraternity events the lawsuit claims
Such rules were ignored and this accident was preventable it’s our hopes that this lawsuit affects that change until that behavior has changed we are sadly going to see more tragedies like this the lawsuit also says another Rutger student died in that same Theta Kai house more than 20 years ago he too
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