New York Students Charged for Paddling Middle Schoolers

Three New York high school students face felony and misdemeanor charges in connection with the alleged hazing of eighth graders in their suburban town in an annual "freshman Friday" ritual. Sean Pinson and Tristan Scragg, both 17, and 16-year-old Max Meyerson allegedly kidnapped several teens at Rye Public Library, forced them into a car and drove them to a wildlife conservancy, where they paddled two of the boys with a "large piece of lumber," police said. One student was hit so hard that...Full Story