The first documented case of hazing took place in 1737 and it involved Freemason Founding Father Benjamin Franklin and an oath to the devil listen to this Daniel Rees was described as not a smart man and he was an apprentice to a pharmacist named Dr Evan Jones so as part of his
Quote unquote initiation he was made to pledge his loyalty to Satan however his initiation was completely fake and he was being pranked during this fake initiation he was made to drink from a quote unquote sacramental cup which contained a laxative and he had to kiss the behind of one of the other members
Also during his initiation a man named Sullivan was dressed in a cow’s hide with horns and he was impersonating the devil they lit a bowl of Brandy for lighting in the cellar and it had a spooky look and Daniel was taking everything so seriously that the others
Stopped having fun there was a game that dates back to the 16th century and it’s called Snapdragon and it involves lighting Brandy on fire and that made the Flames have an eerie blue look so you can imagine how scary it would look under someone’s chin in the dark now Dr
Jones either thre or accidentally spilled the bowl of burning Brandy and Daniel was set on fire he passed away 2 Days Later when Benjamin Franklin who was a Freemason heard about the prank around town he asked for a copy of this oath of allegiance to Satan and he showed it
Around to other people he became a witness for the prosecution Dr Evan Jones was found guilty of manslaughter and he was branded in his hand from 1959 to 2020 at least one US school club or organization hazing death has been reported every year the organization stop hazing org specifies three
Components of hazy number one it happens in a group number two it involves behavior that is humiliating degrading or endangering and number three it happens regardless of whether the individual is willing to participate there are unfortunately plenty of people who are unwillingly taking ungodly Oaths that last a lifetime or multiple
Generations they will follow ritual books and give up their dignity in in order to belong to these secret societies most become interested in Greek organizations for positive reasons their mother or grandmother pledged Zeta fight beta or Alpha Kaa Alpha so they decide to do the same we all want to
Feel a sense of belonging in one way or another from a young age Jordan henkins had a passion for helping others and a gift when it came to playing sports she won a full ride to Northwestern University on a basketball SCH scholarship and on her sophomore year
She told her parents that she wanted to join a sorority because she wanted to serve others her mother was there to watch the ceremony in which her daughter became an official member of Alpha Kappa Alpha her mother Felicia said that she felt a sense of pride a sense of relief
Because you know the process was over she said but just 7 weeks later her 19-year-old daughter would take her own life in her dorm room this happened on January the 9th in 2017 2 years after her death her mother filed a complaint in federal court against AKA and the complaint alleged that Jordan
Was subjected to physical abuse including paddling verbal abuse mental abuse Financial exploitation sleep deprivation items being thrown and dumped on her and other forms of hazing that were intended to humiliate and demean her the abuse triggered her PTSD and it caused the constant anxiety and depression that eventually led to her
Death just 3 years earlier Madison hollerin who was also an athlete she took her own life and she too suffered from depression Victoria Carter was known for her fashion sense she was also extremely ambitious and determined even though she was involved in multiple extracurricular activities she still held down a 4.0 GPA
She was a double major in business and marketing with the minor in communication at East Carolina University in Greenville North Carolina she had plans to attend Yale and become a lawyer and she believed that joining a sorority would help her get there so in the fall of 2010 she attended what’s
Called a rush activity which is a meeting where you learn about the sorority and how you can become a member now once she submitted her application she started receiving phone calls to run errands for the sisters like wash their clothes or whatever they wanted done eventually Victoria was so exhausted
That her grade started to slip and so she started to panic during an orientation for new pledges she learned about hazing how it wasn’t allowed in the soroity and that anyone involved in hazing would be expelled she knew that those so-called errands were actually hazing and that she could be expelled if
She was ever found out and of course that was the last thing that she wanted she wanted to help her family her mother was a single mom and she worked to three jobs at a time and she sometimes struggled to pay the bills so Victoria wanted to be able to take that stress
Away from her and her siblings that she also helped to care for while her mother was at work now I learned a little bit about Delta Sigma Theta and how it involves bowing down to the Greek goddess manura that among other things is causing a lot of women to renounce
Their membership each of the nine black Greek organizations called the divine nine is associated with a Greek god or goddess because so many of the Divine n organizations say they are based on Christian principles Christian women are often drawn to them only to regret their decision later um you have to go get
Them food they don’t care if you don’t have money got go get dry cleaning on top of that you got to go do house visits so house visits is like when you go meet up with big sisters that are just in town it’s you and like two or
Three other people with you and mind you you could never be by yourself if they ever caught you on campus by your self they would kidnap you like on top of that like not even the Deltas but like if the q’s which was the brother for uh
Fraternity of us caught us they could kidnap us and then they would have to call your license they would have to come get you like they could do whatever to you you know you would have to get in the cut which I mean like take licks SM
Wipe you they do this thing where they make you sit in Delta chair which is basically like squats they sit on you they spit on you they H you know yeah they do all that I mean some of the stuff that we had to do at set I
Mean the most demeaning disgusting stuff that you could ever imagine we would do this thing called Delta Apple where we would literally all take and bite out of the onion and like pass it to each other you know we would eat dog food if if one
Of the girls on the line had like the prettiest hair they would ruin it what else you know pushing shoving smacking hitting you would have to take wood wood is where they got the big paddles you would have to get in the position and they would just tag you in tag you out
You know another time pledges were forced to wear Delta lipstick which consists of hot sauce being rubbed on their lips there was also the Delta TV which is similar to a plank and it’s where pledges were forced to hold a push-up position for a long period of time for several weeks
The sorority made 17 pledges share a two-bedroom two B apartment that they named the duck pond because of how crowded it was their own parents weren’t even allowed to know where they were living because of this living situation the pledges endured weeks of sleep deprivation the girls attempted to sleep
In closets on couches and even in the bathroom on top of all of that the pledges that were also called pyramids had to endure what’s known as hell week during the same time they were also preparing for probate which is an elaborate ceremony where the pledges performed and the sorority introduces
Them and they had to practice over and over and over until they got it right before the ceremony they didn’t even have an opportunity to get some decent sleep and they had a hair appointment scheduled for 6:30 the morning of the ceremony the induction ceremony was
Around 3:30 on November the 20th in 2010 Camille Arrington was appointed the designated driver by Soro leaders and during hell week she only slept for about 6 to 7 hours that entire week on the way to their hair appointment Camille ran off the road and she hit a
Tree Victoria Carter was 20 she died on impact from a broken neck and Brianna gther also 20 she died a few hours later and they were both in the back seat Camille plead guilty to two counts of misdemeanor death by motor vehicle in according to the lawsuit she was suffering from excessive and
Overwhelming fatigue exhaustion and sleep deprivation and she simply fell asleep behind the wheel she was ordered to serve one year of rised probation and performed 100 hours of community service the sorority tries to cover up the hazing by deleting emails text messages documents and by threatening pledges
They even had a fact sent to the funeral home telling them not to display anything related to Delta they claimed that she wasn’t a member because she died hours before the actual induction ceremony and Victoria’s mother said that every September when the leaves start to change change she thinks about the last
Time that she saw her daughter in three separate incidents of hazing in 2009 Jasmine Johnson was punched in the head the chest and the stomach she was also kneed in the stomach and the back and she had vinegar sprayed in her face on one of the times
That she was needed in the stomach and she was actually bleeding and suffering from extreme headaches and stomach pains while she was attending the ceremony where the new members were pinned in a into the sority this is when she finally told her mother what had happened her
Mother took her to the hospital and they learned that Jasmine had a concussion along with bruising and contusions to her stomach her injuries were reported to the sori and they were told that it would be handled internally her injuries were reported to the sorority and she
And her mother were told that it would be handled internally now one day Jasmine and her mother were parked outside of the College Bookstore when another car pulled up behind them and started to get closer and closer to them it was members of the sorority once
Jasmine got out of the car they yelled that she better watch her back and they called her a [ __ ] Jasmine and her mother then contacted a lawyer and they filed a report with the university and the Chattanooga police department on September the 9th in 2002 around 10 at Dockweiler State Beach in
California police spotted at least 11 women and running across the beach they were all dressed the same they had on black running shoes thick black sweatshirts and black jogging pants four of the pledges were blindfolded and driven to playo Del re California now once they arrived at the beach they were
Led into the ocean backwards which is a staple of West Coast pledge rituals during the ritual pledges would walk through the waves and towards the leader who was standing in the water urging them to come closer now two of the members were Kena s fear and Kristen
High now Kena was 24 she was married and was a tax specialist with the IRS Kristen was 22 and was a business major and a leader on the campus she also had a fiance and a 2-year-old son named Skyler joining aka the oldest black sorority in the United States was
Something that she had always dreamed about now that night the surf was unusually high and the waves had gotten up to at least 10 ft high it was a large wave that knocked Kena down and it pulled her under the water Kristen was a strong swimmer and she knew that Kena
Couldn’t swim so she rushed to try and save her but she too was Pulled Under at 11:22 p.m. 911 dispatchers received a call about a loud commotion at the beach the beach was actually closed at that time so nobody should have been there to begin with a minute later a second call
Came in about a woman screaming for help when the the police got there about 3 minutes later they saw two bodies being tossed in the surf about 50 yard from the beach soon the beach was crowded with ambulances fire trucks squad cars rescue boats and a helicopter with search lights around midnight LAPD
Officers Robert Espinosa and Charles Rodriguez do Vu pulled Kena and Christen out and attempted to revive them but unfortunately they were pronounced dead the police showed up in the middle of the night to tell Kristen’s mother that her daughter had drowned on the news their deaths were reported as simply
Co-eds partying at the beach days before she died she had told her family about The Hazing that she was going through she was being called on no matter what time of the day or night to cook to paint fingernails to be a driver to do chores or to braid hair one night her
Mother said that she came home with green paint all over her Kristen Kena and two other pledges were worked to exhaustion every night in sessions that would last until at least 1 or 2 in the morning the night that they died they had spent hours at the beach doing
Calistenics before they were made to walk backward into the ocean when sorority members brought christen’s car home her pledge Journal was missing and numbers had been deleted from her phone neither the pledges or any members of the sorority attended the funerals even though they had spent hours at
Christian’s mother’s home eating with a family and playing with Kristen’s son they were the only ones who could tell her mother what really happened but they couldn’t even look her in the face a former cop told her mother that he had had an easier time infiltrating street gangs than penetrating the AKA
Organization it turned out that the sorority chapter they were pledging had been suspended for over a decade but none of the girls knew that fortunately the deaths of Christian and kipa were not in vain author Lawrence Ross Jr said that their deaths were like 911 for fraternities and sororities because it
Forced a lot of people out of denial police say the drownings were accidental and although hazing wasn’t ruled out no evidence of wrongdoing including blindfolds or rope was found at the scene or on the women Bad Company corrupts good character so when surviving brutality is seen as a badge
Of honor or bonding experience and keeping secrets is a way to measure loyalty and sororities and fraternities live by a Code of Silence can anything actually stop hazing
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