OT: At Penn State, student dies at home of Head Football Trainer but everybody involved is charged except him
Typical Penn State and what is becoming a big story in Pennsylvania. A couple months ago a kid died at a fraternity house during a fraternity members only party from the injuries resulting from alcohol and hazing. The details are starting to come out but tragically the kid died from activities at the party and the fraternity members tried to cover it up (removing evidence from the house, telling members to lie to detectives, deleting messages, etc.). In total, 18 fraternity members have been charged with a litany of things with the most serious charges being involuntary man-slaughter and tampering with evidence.
However, 20 people were at the house that night.... the person not charged - Tim Bream who is the Head of Trainer for the Penn State football program. Why was he there? He is the senior residential advisor of the house and was there that night. Now the DA has said he hasn't been charged b/c "he didn't know of the victim's injuries" or that a "party was going on" or that "he wasn't consulting about covering anything up".
But many people are wondering how in the world could he not have known what was going on at this rager (where beer bottles were thrown against the wall as an activity) and have not known there was a dead body in the house if he was there?? Especially since it's a typical fraternity house with thin walls.
Link to him not being charged here
Link to the story of the 18 charges here
Story linked by OP doesn't even say Bream was at the house. Another story I read said it was "unclear" if he was at the house. But let's all rush to judgment anyway.
Sounds sort of like when a poster is hazed and insulted mercilessly by an anonymous stalker and his supporting band of thick-skulled lowlife Internet tough guys, yet mods do nothing about it.
someone actually died
nautical
from that bro. WDD didn't kill WD
Wow. From 2011 and you have 38 points? I'd expect a bunch or a Bolivia level negative.
Sincerely,
Benn & Discuss Man
I can't believe frats still do stupid shit like this. When I read that one guy insisted that the kid needed medical attention but the others got confrontational with him and said the pre-med kineiseology majors knew more than he, I honestly could not believe even young people could be so dumb and blinded by their own arrogance. Who would want to be a part of something like that?
"I honestly could not believe even young people could be so dumb and blinded by their own arrogance alcohol"
is a toxic program that learned little from the putrid stench of the Sandusky affair because their punishment amounted to what other schools receive for "imporoper benefits."
PSU and Baylor shouldn't be allowed to have a football team for at least a decade. Nothing will convince me otherwise. Institutional coverup of predators to maintain (and even grow) their coffers at the expense of numerous childrens and women's physical and mental health.
Oh, the kids who are there didn't have anything to do with it so why punish them? Because they knowingly went to Rape University. That's why. I have zero respect for anything PSU or Baylor. MSU is close to thast now. Let the current athlestes have a free transfer to wherever they want who will take them, as long as it isn't in conference.
Sad.
We didn't have them at UM but I think it's pretty normal to have house moms or somethign equivalent living in fraternities at a lot of other colleges.
I am among the first to remind folks that Joe Paterno and many others at Penn State aided and abetted child rape for decades both on their premises and off. Really can't say that enough.
But this seems to have jack shit all to do with that. This is a story that could have happened at any number of frats in any number of schools across the country. The lesson here should be that getting absolutely wrecked at a frat party, or any other party, is risky business.
And at the most basic level, it's a sad story about the needless loss of a young man's life. I hope his family and his friends are able to find comfort and peace eventually.
Well said. This is about alcohol, not frats or even Penn State.
for the PSU Board of Ttrustees.
Unreal; apparently the concepts of "PR" and "optics" don't occur to them, even with a tragedy of this nature.
to say that this incident occurred "at the home of the head football trainer."
It was his home in that he lived there with the frat, but it was not his private home into which he invited a buch of college students, which your headline very strongly implies, intended or not.
Talk about click bait.
terribly written and confusing.
Ivy League? Must be a science guy.
Man, all they had to do was call 911, this is sad.
Delete ur account, Penn State.
says they are not sure he was there but he is now suspended. Go back to the PSU blog you frequent I'm sure you must be a star over there. I think him recently coming back around after his stint with the Bears coupled with him being an adviser to that peticular frat he should probably lawyer up.
Not surprisingly the local paper left out the part about the HEAD FOOTBALL TRAINER being at an underage drinking party.