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HARTFORD, CT (WFSB) -

Connecticut lawmakers are reviewing a bill that would give stiffer penalties to people who commit the knockout game.

The bill was discussed during a public hearing of the General Assembly's Public Safety Committee where lawmakers heard testimony about it on Tuesday.

Among the supporters is a West Hartford father whose 18-year-old son's face was damaged after being punched in the head.

"My son has two titanium plates in his jaw. He has eight screws in this jaw and it was broken in multiple places," said West Hartford police Officer Tom Nagle.

Nagle said his son is in rehab after being a victim of the knockout game.

"He's been wired shut and has to have his meals through a straw," Nagle said. "He's lost some weight. He's rehabilitating and our family is concentrating on him getting well."

His son is a college student in Massachusetts and was walking back to his dorm room when someone came up from behind and punched him in the head.

Police said Nagle's son was the third person that night to be sucker punched in an unprovoked attack and without any warning.

Lawmakers want to toughen penalties. Right now, a person arrested for being involved in the knockout game would be charged with aClass D felony and face a five-year sentence. However, they could get probation.

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