When Brothers Assault

This from the Herald-Leader, Photo of Whiteside by Ashlee Clark:

3 plead guilty in hazing at Eastern

RICHMOND — The three men charged with the beating of an Eastern Kentucky University student as part of a fraternity hazing ritual will each serve at least 30 days of home incarceration for the assault and could potentially have their records expunged by the end of the year.

Thomas Barnes, Alonzo C. McGill and Gabriel M. McLaren pleaded guilty to fourth-degree assault charges Monday morning in Madison District Court. They beat Brent White side last year while he was a candidate for admission into the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity chapter at EKU. Whiteside was later hospitalized with kidney failure...

..."The goal here is to move on," said Michael Eubanks, the attorney who represented McGill.

Eubanks and Jim Baechtold, the attorney for McLaren, denied that their clients meant to harm Whiteside during the pledge process, though they pleaded guilty to the assault charges.

"The intention was not to hurt," Eubanks said. "The intention was to build brotherhood. You don't create brotherhood by hurting people."

Barnes ... declined to comment.

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