A Brooklyn mom has filed a $25 million lawsuit against a fraternity at Cornell University, after her son was allegedly kidnapped, drugged, and abandoned by his frat brothers. Marie Lourdes André says her son, George Desdunes, was already a full-fledged member of the fraternity at the time of the incident.
The fraternity Desdunes was part of had previously been monitored by its national organization after campus officials discovered a manual that required new pledges to perform sex acts, buy illegal drugs, among other things.
André says she knows the money won’t bring her son back. “With the death of my son, I find some comfort in knowing that this lawsuit may bring about changes in fraternities that will prevent other families from suffering as I have,” she says.
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As parents, how do we monitor this? Pledging takes place largely on college campuses, away from the watchful eye of Mom and Dad. Students are adults by then, and don’t need permission from their parents to join a sorority or fraternity. So what’s a parent to do? Have you (or your kid) ever had to deal with hazing?