2nd Wheaton Football Player Pleads Guilty In Hazing Scandal

WHEATON, IL — Kyler Kregel, one of the five former Wheaton College football players involved in the 2016 hazing of Charles Nagy, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor batteryTuesday. He will serve one year of conditional discharge, according to the Daily Herald.

Kregel, 22, pleaded guilty at the DuPage County Court as a part of a plea deal identical to that of Noah Spielman, another of the five players charged in September 2017 with hazing and other related charges. For both of them, nine felony charges were dropped to misdemeanor battery as a part of his plea deal.

He will have to pay a $250 fee and complete 100 hours of community service, including 25 talking to kids about how dangerous hazing is, the Herald reports.

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"This college prank was never intended by anyone to harm or even upset Charles. In fact, quite the opposite," Kregel said, according to the Herald. Kregel likened hazing to growing up with brothers and how they sometimes scuffle.

Nagy was abducted from his dorm on March 19, 2016, the charges say. Kregel and Speilman, alongside Ben Pettway, Samuel TeBos and James Cooksey, put a pillowcase over Nagy's head, tied him up with duct tape and took him out to a field where they kicked him, kicked dirt on him and left him partially nude, the charges say.

The judge called the players' actions a "terrible error in judgement," the Herald reports.

Article image via DuPage County Jail