San Beda College (SBC) has expelled 27 members of Lex Leonum Fraternitas in connection with the death caused by hazing of freshman law student Marc Andre Marcos on a farm in Dasmariñas City, Cavite province.
The sons of two high-ranking officials of the National Bureau of Investigation were among the 36 charged in connection with the death of a San Beda student, Marc Andre Marcos, in hazing rites in August, the bureau’s top official said.
Thirty-two law students of San Beda College have been charged with violating the antihazing law in connection with the death of Marc Andre Marcos, according to a source in the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI).
When San Beda College (SBC) announced, following the recent death of freshman law student Mark Andre Marcos, that it did not allow fraternities—and sororities, for that matter—people thought it was an overreaction, a panicked, impractical, unrealistic response to a serious problem.
Police said the efforts of two hazing victims, who voluntarily went to the Cavite police office on Friday, were not enough unless they formally testified and pressed charges against the fraternity members allegedly responsible for the death of San Beda law student Marc Andre Marcos.
If he did it, so can other students of city government-run schools in Manila.
Police are preparing to amend their case against those involved in the hazing that caused the death of San Beda law student Marc Andre Marcos to include the supposed owner of the farm where the hazing took place and more than 30 other persons.
The Philippine National Police on Sunday said it was waiting for the release of the arrest warrants against those charged with the death of hazing victim Marc Andre Marcos before carrying out a manhunt for them.
The wreath was big and imposing, and could not easily be missed. But nobody seemed to have noticed it as it stood by the door of Diocesan Shrine of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus, the town’s parish church, where hazing victim Marc Andre Marcos spent his last night.
San Beda College has put its foot down against violence in fraternities following the recent death of San Beda College of Law freshman Marc Andre Marcos and that of schoolmate Marvin Reglos just five months ago.
The San Beda College community said they will hold Friday a school-wide para-lithurgy and candlelight vigil for two Bedans who died due to fraternity hazing this year.
Members of fraternities in the Senate want swift justice meted out to those who end up killing neophytes seeking membership in their organizations.
For apparently trying to protect his son, the father of one of the principal suspects in the death of San Beda College law student Marc Andre Marcos has found himself in the same boat as his son.
