Another charged in YSU hazing event gets a year in prison, depsite appeal to judge

YOUNGSTOWN

One of nine men accused of hazing a pair of pledges to a Youngstown State University fraternity told a judge today that he was young and not thinking clearly in 2012 when the conduct occurred.

Now, three years older, Raheem Satterthwaite said the reality that he might be separated from his three young daughters brings the reality of his fate home.

“At 22, I wasn’t thinking about going to jail, leaving my daughter over hazing,” Satterthwaite told Judge Shirley Christian during his sentencing hearing in Mahoning County Common Pleas Court. “I’m 25 now. I look at her; I can’t leave her.”

Judge Christian sentenced Satterthwaite to a year in prison.

Prosecutors said two men who wanted to pledge the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity were beaten consistently,

including paddlings and beatings with fists and a clothes hanger, in early 2012 by nine men.

One of the victims went to a hospital twice because of his injuries.

Read more about the case and the others charged in Friday's Vindicator or on Vindy.com.