{"id":5179,"date":"2025-05-22T20:51:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T20:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aielloharris.com\/?p=5179"},"modified":"2025-05-23T12:56:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T12:56:55","slug":"the-legal-process-regarding-the-sayreville-high-school-hazing-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aielloharris.com\/es\/the-legal-process-regarding-the-sayreville-high-school-hazing-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"El proceso legal relacionado con el incidente de novatadas en la escuela secundaria Sayreville"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Entrevistador:<\/strong> What\u2019s going to happen with this investigation? What\u2019s going to be happening and how long do you think this all is going to take?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Abate<\/a>: <\/strong>The first thing is that the prosecutor\u2019s office has announced that it has decided that it will not charge the youths who were involved in this as adults. That\u2019s very surprising to me, and I thought they were going to send a clear message as they\u2019re doing with the fallout from what happened in this situation. Things of a high profile in New Jersey are dealt with to teach other people and prosecutors that this is how we will handle this. I\u2019m a little surprised they\u2019re being dealt with as juveniles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is a Possibility that the Prosecutor is Going To Look for a Narrator in this Case<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

One other thing, I assume, will be happening as the young men obtained counsel and I\u2019d have to be careful what I say because I could very well be representing one of these young men; my expectation is the prosecutor is going to be looking for a narrator. What I mean by that is he\u2019s going to make an offer to each person who\u2019s been charged, and there were seven or eight boys charged, and he\u2019s going to say, \u201cYou come forward now and you\u2019ll be dealt with less severely than the others\u201d, and he\u2019ll make that offer to several of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Narrator Will be Dealt with Leniently As Compared to the Other Offenders<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The first one who takes the deal is going to tell everything that went on and he\u2019s going to narrate for a jury or for a prosecutor what the extent of this was, where it started, what school officials knew, and what the other boys did. He\u2019s not going to get out of this completely but he\u2019ll get more beneficial treatment than the boys who do not come forward and take the deal.  Only one of them is going to get that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cancellation of the Football Season is a Trivial Matter when Compared to the Hazing Incident<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Entrevistador: <\/strong>Do you foresee any sort of difficulty because a lot of parents are concerned about their seasons being cancelled?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

James Abate: <\/strong>Yes.  Their seasons\u2019 being cancelled is the least of anybody\u2019s worries but this is again why it was such a brave act for the school superintendent to do what he did. One thing they don\u2019t highlight in the news about Dr Labbe is that this is his first year as superintendent there. He\u2019s come into an environment where football is very big, maybe not as big as it would have been in Penn State but that\u2019s a very big culture in Sayreville with the football program. It may be that if he had been indoctrinated in their program, he wouldn\u2019t have done what he did or he wouldn\u2019t have cancelled the season. There may be some people whose children are trying to get divisional scholarships and not being recruited there or not being able to be seen by recruiters till senior year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conspiracy Exists Whenever there are One or More People who see Something and Don\u2019t Say Anything About It<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s something they feel is unfair, but there is an answer to that. If you see something like this, speak up, don\u2019t let it go on, because the bigger problem they have is that they could be brought into this act of hazing. Conspiracy exists when one or more people see something and don\u2019t say anything about it.  So, anybody in that locker room could have been charged with conspiracy to commit aggravated hazing. They shouldn\u2019t be thinking about getting seen by recruiters, they should be thinking about what could have happened to them in a criminal sense. They could have charged everybody on the team if they wanted to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All the Teammates Of the Football Team Could Potentially be Charged with Conspiracy<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

To get to what they\u2019re under, as far as hazing and aggravated hazing under 2C:40-3<\/a>, a person is guilty of hazing as a infracci\u00f3n por alteraci\u00f3n del orden p\u00fablico<\/a> and so it\u2019s the delito menor<\/a> version if in connection with initiation of some sort if they knowingly or recklessly organize, promote, facilitate, or engage in conduct which places or may place another place in danger of bodily injury. That\u2019s the disorderly person\u2019s version, but it certainly sounds like what we\u2019ve done, and as you can see, it\u2019s not just did you do it. It\u2019s if you engage, promote, facilitate; facilitate could mean you locked the door, facilitate could tell you didn\u2019t say anything. Then there\u2019s also aggravated hazing in the fourth degree, just punishable by a year-and-a-half in jail if that\u2019s committed and it results in a bodily injury to another person, which happened here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Person Indicted and Convicted for Aggravated Sexual Assault Could Face 10 to 20 Years in Prison and a $200,000 Fine<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

They could have also faced charges of agresi\u00f3n sexual<\/a>, y agresi\u00f3n sexual agravada<\/a> occurs when someone commits an act of sexual penetration with another person under circumstances where one of the participants is between 13 and 16 years old. If you have supervisory or disciplinary power over the victim, those are just two standards that go into this.  That clearly happened here by several people, and somebody indicted and convicted under that section of the criminal law could be looking at 10 to 20 years in prison and a $200,000 fine in addition to their legal fees and what it will take to bail them out of jail. This would stretch even the strongest of families to its breaking point. The fact that they can\u2019t play football this year isn\u2019t the first thing I would think about.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contacte a nuestro Abogados penalistas de Nueva Jersey<\/a> hoy con la informaci\u00f3n de contacto a continuaci\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Interviewer: What\u2019s going to happen with this investigation? What\u2019s going to be happening and how long do you think this all is going to take? James Abate: The first thing is that the prosecutor\u2019s office has announced that it has decided that it will not charge the youths who were involved in this as adults. That\u2019s very … <\/p>\n

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