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Hazing Litigation Guide for Newton, Texas Families: Understanding Your Rights After Fraternity, Sorority, or Campus Abuse If Your Child Was Hazed in Texas, You're Not Alone A University of Houston student, Leonel Bermudez, accepted a bid to join the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity's Beta Nu chapter in the fall of 2025. What followed was not the brotherhood and leadership development he was promised. Instead, over weeks, he was subjected to a regime of humiliation and abuse: forced to carry a degrading "pledge fanny pack" containing condoms and sex toys, chauffeured members at all hours, and subjected to extreme physical hazing. This included being sprayed in the face with a hose "similar to waterboarding," forced to consume milk, hot dogs, and peppercorns until vomiting, and compelled to perform hundreds of push-ups and squats under threat of expulsion. The result was catastrophic. Mr. Bermudez developed rhabdomyolysis—a severe skeletal muscle breakdown—and acute kidney failure. His urine turned brown. He was hospitalized for four days with critically high creatine kinase levels and faces ongoing risk of permanent kidney damage. In late 2025, Attorney911 filed a $10 million hazing and abuse lawsuit on his behalf against the University of Houston, the Pi Kappa Phi national…
