College students at a Catholic college in Victoria have been suspended or expelled after they had been allegedly caught on digicam holding down their fellow classmates and whipping them.
Three college students had been expelled from Assumption Faculty in Kilmore, north of Melbourne, whereas 18 had been suspended for his or her roles within the alleged hazing of a gaggle of 12 months 10 college students, a spokesperson for the varsity confirmed.
Assumption Faculty fees $8,807 for 12 months 10 college students, whereas boarders in the identical yr pay as much as $34,000 on prime of tuition.
Footage of the hazing incident circulated all through social media, exhibiting classmates of the alleged victims cheering on the brutality.
A number of college students from Assumption Faculty (pictured above) in Kilmore, North of Victoria, have been expelled whereas 18 have been suspended for his or her roles in an alleged brutal hazing incident
Assumption Faculty Principal Kate Fogarty launched an announcement on November 15 to folks and condemned the alleged behaviour.
‘A lot of you could bear in mind that in current days now we have been responding to a severe incident of disrespectful, harassing and (allegedly) bodily aggressive behaviour by a gaggle of scholars,’ Ms Fogarty mentioned.
‘This sort of behaviour goes utterly in opposition to the values, ethos, and beliefs of Assumption Faculty and won’t be tolerated.
‘Whereas we labored onerous to clarify our expectations to all college students, this incident has highlighted for us to redouble our efforts.
‘Please be assured that the security and wellbeing of each scholar in our care is our highest precedence.’
Principal Kate Fogarty (pictured above) launched an announcement on November 15 to sentence the behaviour
Each police and the e-safety commissioner had been contacted instantly by the varsity with footage of the incident additionally being supplied.
‘You possibly can see he’s scared, however nobody’s doing something to assist, at the least not from what I might see,’ an unnamed guardian of one of many victims instructed The Age.
‘The toughest half is watching the opposite boys cheering and laughing and pondering it’s all a giant joke.’
The alleged victims of the hazing incident had been reportedly held down and whipped whereas fellow classmates cheered and laughed (inventory picture pictured)
A spokesperson for Marist Colleges Australia instructed the Each day Mail Australia that ‘it has been saved carefully knowledgeable in relation to this matter and is glad that the incident has been dealt with appropriately by the varsity’.
Marist Colleges Australia is a group of 55 faculties throughout Australia – together with Assumption Faculty – that gives management, assist and governance to its members.
Earlier this month, six college students had been expelled from Waverley Faculty (pictured above), an all-boys Catholic college in Sydney’s Jap Suburbs after an alleged hazing incident of their very own
The Assumption Faculty scandal comes simply weeks after six 12 months 9 college students had been expelled from Waverley Faculty, an all-boys Catholic college in Sydney’s Jap Suburbs.
The six former college students allegedly hazed a gaggle of 12 months Seven college students, locking them in school rooms and forcing them to crawl on all fours and lick the 12 months 9 college students’ footwear; reportedly filming the incidents.
Waverley Faculty Principal Graham Leddie mentioned in an e mail to the varsity neighborhood that ‘what began as some foolish behaviour became assault and humiliation kind behaviours’.
