Kristin, a 22 year old mother and Alpha Kappa Alpha pledge at California State University, Los Angeles, drowned in the late night surf at Dockweiler Beach in Playa Del Rey, a Los Angeles suburb. Another pledge, Kenitha Saafir, also died in the hazing accident.
"Kristin had a call to change the world," said High's mother, the Rev. Patricia Strong-Fargas, in front of 70 friends and family at the Holy Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Compton who gathered for a peace rally and to remember the deaths of the two students. "She had started that change. I can't stop till her dreams and causes have made a difference in this world."
Strong-Fargas alleged that her daughter had gone through months of humiliation and that High's would-be sorority sisters had forced her to act like a slave and called upon her at all hours to cook meals, paint fingernails, act as a chauffeur, do chores and braid hair. One night her daughter came home bathed in green paint. Another time, her face and hair were coated in mayonnaise. According to Strong-Fargas' lawyer, High's fiancé gave a deposition claiming that just days before her death, High was tied up, blindfolded and led into the water at the same spot where the two women drowned on September 9. Strong-Fargas alleges that the same thing happened the night they died. She plans to write a book, tour around high schools to let students know about hazing, and help raise Skyler, now 4, who is permanently joined at the hip with his grandmother.
"Kristin had a call to change the world," said High's mother, the Rev. Patricia Strong-Fargas, in front of 70 friends and family at the Holy Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Compton who gathered for a peace rally and to remember the deaths of the two students. "She had started that change. I can't stop till her dreams and causes have made a difference in this world."
Strong-Fargas alleged that her daughter had gone through months of humiliation and that High's would-be sorority sisters had forced her to act like a slave and called upon her at all hours to cook meals, paint fingernails, act as a chauffeur, do chores and braid hair. One night her daughter came home bathed in green paint. Another time, her face and hair were coated in mayonnaise. According to Strong-Fargas' lawyer, High's fiancé gave a deposition claiming that just days before her death, High was tied up, blindfolded and led into the water at the same spot where the two women drowned on September 9. Strong-Fargas alleges that the same thing happened the night they died. She plans to write a book, tour around high schools to let students know about hazing, and help raise Skyler, now 4, who is permanently joined at the hip with his grandmother.
Kristin, a 22 year old mother and Alpha Kappa Alpha pledge at California State University, Los Angeles, drowned in the late night surf at Dockweiler Beach in Playa Del Rey, a Los Angeles suburb. Another pledge, Kenitha Saafir, also died in the hazing accident.
"Kristin had a call to change the world," said High's mother, the Rev. Patricia Strong-Fargas, in front of 70 friends and family at the Holy Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Compton who gathered for a peace rally and to remember the deaths of the two students. "She had started that change. I can't stop till her dreams and causes have made a difference in this world."
Strong-Fargas alleged that her daughter had gone through months of humiliation and that High's would-be sorority sisters had forced her to act like a slave and called upon her at all hours to cook meals, paint fingernails, act as a chauffeur, do chores and braid hair. One night her daughter came home bathed in green paint. Another time, her face and hair were coated in mayonnaise. According to Strong-Fargas' lawyer, High's fiancé gave a deposition claiming that just days before her death, High was tied up, blindfolded and led into the water at the same spot where the two women drowned on September 9. Strong-Fargas alleges that the same thing happened the night they died. She plans to write a book, tour around high schools to let students know about hazing, and help raise Skyler, now 4, who is permanently joined at the hip with his grandmother.
"Kristin had a call to change the world," said High's mother, the Rev. Patricia Strong-Fargas, in front of 70 friends and family at the Holy Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Compton who gathered for a peace rally and to remember the deaths of the two students. "She had started that change. I can't stop till her dreams and causes have made a difference in this world."
Strong-Fargas alleged that her daughter had gone through months of humiliation and that High's would-be sorority sisters had forced her to act like a slave and called upon her at all hours to cook meals, paint fingernails, act as a chauffeur, do chores and braid hair. One night her daughter came home bathed in green paint. Another time, her face and hair were coated in mayonnaise. According to Strong-Fargas' lawyer, High's fiancé gave a deposition claiming that just days before her death, High was tied up, blindfolded and led into the water at the same spot where the two women drowned on September 9. Strong-Fargas alleges that the same thing happened the night they died. She plans to write a book, tour around high schools to let students know about hazing, and help raise Skyler, now 4, who is permanently joined at the hip with his grandmother.
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