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BELLEFONTE, Pa. – The former president and vice president of the Penn State fraternity where pledge Timothy Piazza collapsed and later died after drinking a large amount of alcohol received a prison sentence Tuesday.
Brandon Young, 28, who was president of the now-defunct chapter of Beta Theta Pi in 2017, and Daniel Casey, 27, who was vice president and pledge master, were sentenced to two to four months behind bars in Center County Court. was sentenced. By three years probation and community service. Every work will be eligible for salvation.
Young and Casey both pleaded guilty in July to 14 counts of harassment and one count of reckless endangerment, all misdemeanors. They were the last two criminal defendants sentenced in the case that prompted Pennsylvania lawmakers to pass a moratorium on torture.
He was ordered to report to the Center County Correctional Facility on Monday.
“Our thoughts are with the Piazza family and everyone affected by this tragedy,” Attorney General Michelle Henry said in a statement. “Nothing can ever heal the loss Tim suffered seven years ago – nothing can bring Tim back to his family and friends.”
Messages seeking comment were left with Young’s defense attorney Julian Allatt and Casey’s attorney Steven Traylonis.
Plaza, a 19-year-old engineering student from Lebanon, New Jersey, and 13 other pledges were seeking to join the fraternity that night when Plaza drank at least 18 drinks in less than two hours. Security camera footage documented Piazza’s harrowing final hours, including a fall down the basement stairs that required others to carry him back up. He showed signs of severe pain when he spent the night on a sofa on the first floor.
It took hours to call help. Piazza suffered serious head and stomach injuries and died in hospital.
More than two dozen fraternity members faced a variety of charges at the same time. More than a dozen people pleaded guilty to harassment and alcohol violations, while a smaller number entered a diversion program designed for first-time, non-violent offenders.
Prosecutors were unable to get more serious charges – including involuntary manslaughter and aggravated assault – approved by judges.
Penn State bans fraternities. Pennsylvania state lawmakers passed legislation making the most serious forms of harassment a felony, requiring schools to maintain policies dealing with harassment and allowing the seizure of fraternity houses where harassment has occurred. .
Had that statute been in place at the time of Plaza’s death, the defendants would have faced harsher penalties, according to the Attorney General’s Office.
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