Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledge is hospitalized after being ‘beaten, hosed down and forced to say racial slurs to a black student at the University of Alabama’
- The unnamed student was exposed by frat brothers on August 14, his lawsuit says
- He claims he suffered brain damage after being hit repeatedly in the head
- Since 2006, nine SAE commits have been killed in hazing incidents
A young pledge at Sigma Alpha Epsilon, the nation’s “deadliest fraternity,” was hospitalized last month after a brutal hazing incident in which he was beaten, hosed down and forced to say racial slurs to a black student, according to a scathing new court case.
The young man is not named in the lawsuit filed against the fraternity. He attends the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and took a pledge with the Mother Mu Chapter.
The complaint alleges that the school and fraternity did nothing to enforce their promise to end hazing, the sadistic ritual in which young prospects are abused and sometimes forced to drink themselves to death.
The young man is not named in the lawsuit filed against the fraternity. He attends the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and took a pledge with the Mother Mu Chapter (photo)
Between 2006 and 2013, ten young hopefuls died trying to join the fraternity, and all of the deaths were related to hazing. Their deaths are among 60 hazing deaths that have occurred in schools across the country since 2000.
The new complaint describes how the lien holder was sent back to the basement after refusing to “snort a white powdery substance.”
Once downstairs, he was hit repeatedly in the head and then taken upstairs to the front porch, where they put him in a kiddie pool and “hosed him down.”
While in the pool, he was ordered to make racist comments to a passing black student.
The fraternity brothers held the snake just an inch away from his face and shot him in the mouth and nose for 30 seconds, according to the complaint.
George Desdunes (left) and Carson Starkey (right) were also killed while pledging at SAE
He was then forced to perform push-ups while they threw a basketball at his head, and was told to kill himself while the other boys threw things at him.
“HB lost consciousness, began seeing stars and suffered a traumatic brain injury,” the lawsuit said.
He then went to the hospital where, according to his doctors, he was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury that left permanent damage.
The lawsuit does not specify what the damages are.
Hazing was banned by the fraternity in 2014 after a series of deaths. Sigma Alpha Epsilon has not yet responded to the allegations in the lawsuit.
Tucker Hipps pledged to Sigma Phi Epsilon at Clemson University when he died in 2014