• Beta Theta Pi pledge Timothy Piazza died February 4 after a fraternity event.

• 18 fraternity brothers have been charged in connection with his death; eight brothers have been charged with involuntary manslaughter.

• Piazza’s parents called the treatment of their son ‘torture.’

The parents of Timothy Piazza, the 19-year-old Penn State sophomore who died after a hazing ritual in February, described their son’s final hours as torture.

“What happened throughout the night was just careless disregard for human life,” Piazza’s father, Jim, told Matt Lauer on NBC’s Today show. “They basically treated our son as roadkill and a rag doll,” he read more >>>

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