On April 28th four members of SAE accepted plea deals for their roles in hazing SAE pledges in Fall 2006. Tyler Cross was a pledge during the time of the accused hazing which ultimately led to his death. Said members are pledge trainers Will Evans and Austin Sherrill, former SAE president Chase Bolding, and former vice president Jimmy Berry.
- Chase Bolding was sentenced with 100 hours of community service and must attend an alcohol awareness class (that's slightly harsher than an M.I.P. ticket).
- Jimmy Berry will serve one year of deferred adjudication, pay a $1,000 fine, and complete 100 hours of community service for not reporting the hazing that took place.
- And Will Evans and Austin Sherrill will be serving a whopping 4 days in jail. However, the charges are only for the hazing that took place in the Fall of 2006, no charges have been brought for the actual death of Tyler Cross.
I'm sure members of the "higher tier" fraternity would believe that these charges were just...but these charges are a joke. If the hazing never took place I highly doubt Tyler Cross would have been so drunk to have fallen from his balcony.
People have been convicted with severer punishments for far far less. For instance, George Robinson and ex-wife Elisa Kelly of Virginia were sentenced in June 2007 to two years in prison each for supplying $340 worth of alcohol to their sons' party. They even took all of the guest's keys, prohibited any of the guest to drive, and no one was killed.
Yet, these fraternity members hazed the shit out of their new members and supplied minors with extreme amounts of alcohol and are barely punished? The Daily Texan released the police warrant of the fraternity's hazing investigation, and the acts that these members committed are flat out disturbingly ridiculous and call for harsher punishments.
Pledges were shocked with cattle prods while blind folded and hog tied, kicked in the stomach while in the "bo's and toe's" position, beaten with bamboo sticks while they ran back and forth with cement blocks in hand, told to drink excessive amounts of tequila, whiskey, and beer from a keg--and the list of extremely illegal activities does not even stop there! Bolding, Sherrill, and Evans called a meeting at the Towers dormitory after the Ohio State game in 2006 where they flipped a table onto a pledge, Evans told a pledge to place his hand on a dart board while he threw darts at the member (in which several darts struck and injured the pledge), and the biggest douchenozzle of them all, Sherrill, burned the faces of two pledges with a hot iron and then instructed them to not attend class until their wounds healed.
Uh, just a few charges that would place these fucktards in prison for more than 96 hours come to mind: providing alcohol to a minors, involuntary manslaughter (the individual was aware of the risk of injury to others and willfully disregarded it--a.k.a Tyler Cross), emotional distress, hazing, cruel and unusual punishment...The list could go on.
Where's the justice UT and Travis County?
7 comments:
I'm happy to see that someone else is completely disgusted by this entire ordeal.
This is absolutely appalling. I CANNOT believe that this is the only punishment they're getting for such cruel, barbaric behavior. And what's worse is that those guys think it's okay. It's okay because their dads have enough money to put them in an "upper-tier" frat where they think they're hot shit, but really they're just all fucking cum dumpsters wearing salmon-colored shorts ordering others around because if something happens (like somebody DYING), all they'll get is freaking 4 days in jail. God, I can pick them out on campus, and it makes me want to vomit.
And it makes us feel all warm and cozy inside knowing there's nothing you can do about it.
It's amazing, what money can do in times of crisis.
RIP Tyler, even though the justice system is failing you horribly.
Shut the hell up. The hazing described had nothing to do with Tyler Cross's death. Cross was drunk and fell off of Towers in a completely unrelated incident. You guys are disgracing Cross by trying to blame his death on these innocent people. You should remember Cross instead.
Also, y'all are fucking pussies. If you're in a good fraternity, you're supposed to get your balls hazed.
Wow, Jack. You prove yourself to be a man of dignity and class. Everyone should respect you and kneel at your feet because I'm sure you got your little balls hazed by "innocent" people.
Nobody's disgracing Tyler Cross but sick bastards like you.
Fucking pussy.
if you're complaining about this its because you're either in a shitty sorority or fraternity, or a GDI.
the top chapters dont turn on each other, as evidence by the events of the past year.
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