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US Secret Service agent among three charged over alleged violent fraternity hazing
Prosecutors say the alleged paddling ritual left one victim with kidney damage and another needing skin grafts after four nights of beatings.
- On Sunday, authorities arrested a Miami-based Secret Service agent and two others for felony hazing, attempted manslaughter, and aggravated battery following a days-long fraternity ritual in April that hospitalized two victims.
- Prosecutors allege the suspects "subjected to severe beatings" with "canes and paddles" over four days at two locations, with Victim 1 suffering kidney damage requiring "extensive skin grafts" after his backside was "blackened by the presence of necrotic skin/tissue."
- Pinder served as "dean of pledges" for Kappa Alpha Psi at the University of Miami, where reports allege victims were beaten for failing to "correctly answer questions about the fraternity" during initiation.
- The Secret Service placed Pinder on administrative leave, stating the agency is "fully cooperating with the investigation," while all three suspects remained in custody on Monday facing multiple felony charges.
- State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle stated hazing is "abuse and it is a crime," emphasizing the case provides "clear-cut examples of hazing's danger" as victims continue suffering from their injuries.
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