Former VCU Fraternity President Pleads No Contest to Hazing

The previous president of a Virginia Commonwealth College fraternity has been uncovered responsible of hazing in link with the dying of a scholar from alcoholic beverages poisoning final calendar year, WRIC noted.

As president of Delta Chi fraternity, Jason Mulgrew assisted organize the off-campus celebration the place freshman Adam Oakes consumed a deadly amount of alcoholic beverages in February 2021. Mulgrew pleaded no contest in Richmond Circuit Court docket Thursday.

Mulgrew was a single of 11 fraternity users charged with hazing and the third to be discovered responsible of the crime, which is a misdemeanor in Virginia.

Below the plea settlement, Mulgrew avoids jail time but ought to conduct 150 hrs of local community support, interact in a restorative justice application with the Oakes family members, take part in 10 antihazing displays to the neighborhood and comprehensive 12 months of supervised probation and fantastic conduct.

The Oakes household claimed in a statement examine in court docket that it doesn’t forgive Mulgrew however but forgiveness can be attained, The Richmond Instances-Dispatch claimed. It urged him to educate some others about the hazards of hazing.

“Adam deserved far better mates than you,” the relatives stated. “Obviously brotherhood has a incredibly different that means to us than it does to you and the brothers of Delta Chi.”