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Hazing in Texas: A Complete Guide for Benjamin Families If Your Child Was Hazed at a Texas University, You Need Answers and Accountability Picture this: A young man from Benjamin, eager to find his place at a Texas university, accepts a bid from a fraternity. What begins as exciting soon turns concerning. His phone buzzes constantly with demands from group chats. He's exhausted from late-night "meetings" and early-morning workouts. His personality changes—he's secretive, defensive, and constantly anxious about pleasing older members. One night, the situation escalates: forced drinking, humiliating acts, and physical punishment that lands him in the emergency room with brown urine and kidney failure. His parents in Benjamin get the call every family fears. This isn't hypothetical. Right now, we're fighting exactly this kind of case. In late 2025, we filed a $10 million hazing and abuse lawsuit on behalf of Leonel Bermudez against the University of Houston, the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter, its national headquarters, and 13 fraternity leaders. The allegations are severe: forced consumption of milk, hot dogs, and peppercorns until vomiting; "waterboarding" with a hose; extreme workouts causing rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure; and systematic humiliation including a degrading "pledge fanny pack" rule.…
