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A Suffolk Country grand jury yesterday indicted former MIT fraternity Phi Gamma Delta on one count of manslaughter and one count of hazing in the October 1997 death of first-year pledge Scott Krueger.
"This is the first time in my memory that the hazing statute has been applied against a fraternity in Massachusetts. It also marks the first time, to our memory, that a fraternity has been charged with manslaughter any-where," said Suffolk County District Attorney Ralph Martin in a news release...
If convicted, the fraternity could be fined up to $3,000 for hazing. Levane refused to speculate on the amount the fraternity could be fined for the manslaughter charge.
It also represents a legal conundrum. Terry Gustafson, district attorney for the Oregon City area, says of a recent death, "If you or I had committed the same crime against our own child, we would be looking at 25 years in the penitentiary." Yet Gustafson refuses to prosecute, calling it...
At first glance, the Phillipses seemed prosecutable. Child-neglect laws in nearly every state make parents who fail to obtain medical treatment for their seriously ill children liable. However, a 1974 federal child-care program made funding contingent on the states' exempting faith-healing parents. That requirement no longer exists...