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Aug 30, 2007 1:35 pm US/Eastern

Teen Gets 9 Months For Hazing Of Schoolmates

MANCHESTER, CONN. (AP) ―

Click to enlarge 1 of 1: The teen in question for brutally hazing three younger classmates has been sentenced Thursday to five years in prison, suspended after nine months. (file photo)

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A boy accused of brutally hazing three younger classmates at a Glastonbury home for gifted minority boys was sentenced Thursday to five years in prison, suspended after nine months.

Jeff Utobor, 16, was also sentenced to five years probation. After he serves his prison time, he must do community service and not contact the victims or his co-defendants.

He and classmates Silvester Baez and Pedro Reyes each pleaded no contest in June to a reduced charge of second-degree assault in Manchester Superior Court.

Reyes and Baez had already been sentenced to nine months in prison.

The three teenagers, who are from outside the state, lived at a home in Glastonbury and attended the local high school through a program called A Better Chance. They were among four upperclassmen accused of abusing three freshmen in the home.

According to court documents, the victims were ordered to do push-ups and to fight each other as well as being slapped, punched, kicked and hit with pingpong paddles.

The three could have been sentenced to up to 24 months active prison time.

A fourth teen, Christopher Lewis, pleaded guilty to third-degree assault in March and was given probation.

The teenagers are 16 or 17 and are from New York City or Massachusetts. They were participants in A Better Chance, a
32-year-old program that accepts out-of-state boys from cities and offers them a Glastonbury education.