Published by the MIT News Office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.

Student Sentenced in Assault Case

Student Sentenced
In Assault Case

A former MIT student has been ordered to serve six months in jail and 
then be on probation for five years for assaulting a Lesley College 
student at a fraternity party last summer. 

Thomas S. Kang, who would have been a senior this year but was expelled 
in November, was allowed to remain free temporarily pending a review of 
where he will serve his term.

Judge Richard L. Banks imposed the sentence January 17 in Roxbury 
District Court on separate charges of assault and battery with a 
dangerous weapon and assault and battery. Kang had been convicted in 
October of attacking the student at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house 
in Boston in July by slamming her head against the sink, walls and 
toilet in a bathroom. Kang was a resident at another fraternity.

Between conviction and sentencing, Kang underwent inpatient psychiatric 
analysis. His trial attorney had blamed his violent behavior on his 
inability to control himself while drinking.