They told him to hold his hands above his head and keep them there. Eight boys then administered "the atomic bomb" some slugged him in the stomach while others repeatedly punched him in the back. It was not a mugging.
It was "hell night" initiation last April for the Omega Gamma Delta fraternity of Oceanside High School on Long Island. Not surprisingly, the bomb had a predictable effect on Ninth-Grader Michael Kalogris, then 14. He collapsed with what doctors at first feared was a ruptured spleen.
After Michael spent three weeks in a hospital recovering from other internal injuries, a...