AP - There are times when Mary Deng thinks her only child is still alive, that he's going to come home, that he didn't die more than four years ago in a brutal fraternity hazing ritual. Then reality intrudes. "I feel like there's a cat clawing and scratching at my heart, hurting me persistently and relentlessly," Deng wrote. "I wake up and I pray for deliverance." The grieving mom wrote of her anguish in a statement that will be delivered Monday at the sentencing of four men charged in her son's 2013 death in the Pocono Mountains. The fraternity itself, convicted of involuntary manslaughter following a trial, will also be sentenced.
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