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Hazing in Texas: A Comprehensive Legal Guide for Abilene Families Seeking Justice Is Your College Student Safe? What Abilene Parents Must Know About Modern Hazing For families in Abilene and across Taylor County, sending a child to college is a milestone filled with pride and hope. You imagine them thriving in class, making lifelong friends, and building their future at schools like Abilene Christian University, Hardin-Simmons University, or Texas Tech just a few hours away. The nightmare of hazing—of your child being beaten, humiliated, or forced to drink to the point of organ failure—feels like something that happens elsewhere, to other families. But right now, in Texas, we're fighting one of the most serious hazing cases in the country, proving that this danger is real and present in our state. In late 2025, we filed a $10 million lawsuit on behalf of Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student who nearly died after enduring brutal hazing by the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter. According to detailed media reports from Click2Houston and ABC13, Bermudez was forced through extreme physical abuse: 100+ push-ups, 500 squats, lying in vomit-soaked grass, being sprayed in the face with a hose "similar to waterboarding," and…