NEW JERSEY -- Six sorority girls from Rutgers University are in hot water for apparently putting pledges through eight days of torture, authorities said.
The university suspended Sigma Gamma Rho following the arrests.
The North Carolina-based headquarters of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority also suspended the chapter at Rutgers, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
That means the sorority has ceased to be officially recognized and can accept no new recruits while the investigation is under way.
Seven alleged victims have come forward saying they were beaten and starved.
In addition, one girl said she experienced a nightly ritual of paddlings and said she was struck 201 times between Jan. 18 and Monday.
The girl said by Monday she was in immense amounts of pain and called her family to be taken to the hospital, where she remains.
The sorority sisters have been identified as Llana Warner, 20, of The Bronx; Vanessa Adegbite, 21, of Jersey City; Joana Bernard, 21, of West Orange; Kesha Cheron, 20, of Newark; Shawna Ebanks, 21, of East Orange; and Marie Charles, 21, of West Orange.
Rutgers Police Lt. Richard Dinan said the six women were taken to the Middlesex County Adult Correctional Facility, and bail was set at $1,500 for each.
At least four of the woman have posted bail, he said.
School officials are still investigating the incident.
According to Rutgers, the university "strictly prohibits all forms of hazing. Under the Code of Student Conduct, a student found to have engaged in hazing may be subject to disciplinary action up to and including expulsion."
The university suspended Sigma Gamma Rho following the arrests.
The North Carolina-based headquarters of the Sigma Gamma Rho sorority also suspended the chapter at Rutgers, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
That means the sorority has ceased to be officially recognized and can accept no new recruits while the investigation is under way.
Seven alleged victims have come forward saying they were beaten and starved.
In addition, one girl said she experienced a nightly ritual of paddlings and said she was struck 201 times between Jan. 18 and Monday.
The girl said by Monday she was in immense amounts of pain and called her family to be taken to the hospital, where she remains.
The sorority sisters have been identified as Llana Warner, 20, of The Bronx; Vanessa Adegbite, 21, of Jersey City; Joana Bernard, 21, of West Orange; Kesha Cheron, 20, of Newark; Shawna Ebanks, 21, of East Orange; and Marie Charles, 21, of West Orange.
Rutgers Police Lt. Richard Dinan said the six women were taken to the Middlesex County Adult Correctional Facility, and bail was set at $1,500 for each.
At least four of the woman have posted bail, he said.
School officials are still investigating the incident.
According to Rutgers, the university "strictly prohibits all forms of hazing. Under the Code of Student Conduct, a student found to have engaged in hazing may be subject to disciplinary action up to and including expulsion."
