The immediate passage of House Bill 5912, that seeks to include intoxication and the presence of non-resident or alumni fraternity members during hazing as aggravating circumstances in the Anti-Hazing Law is being sought by its author, AKO Bicol Party-list Rep. Rodel Batocabe.

This was in reaction to the death of yet another hazing victim, Mark Andrei Marcos, a freshman law student of San Beda College, who succumbed to injuries in a fraternity hazing incident Sunday.

The SC has recommended that Congress amend the Anti-Hazing Law to include these aggravating circumstances, Batocabe said.

Another hazing victim, Marvin Reglos, was also a freshmen law student at San Beda when he was killed in the initiation rites of the Lambda Rho Beta Fraternity in February 2012.

Around the time of his death, the High Court released a decision on the case of Lenny Villa, an Ateneo law student who was also a hazing victim 21 years ago. It found five fraternity members of the Aquila Legis Juris Fraternity guilty of reckless imprudence resulting to homicide, he added.*PNA

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