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Hazing at Texas Universities: A Complete Guide for La Porte Families If Your Child Was Hazed at a Texas University, You Are Not Alone For parents in La Porte, Texas, the call you never want to receive might start with: "Mom, Dad... something happened at the fraternity house." Maybe your student at the University of Houston comes home with unexplained bruises and exhaustion. Maybe your Texas A&M cadet describes humiliating "traditions" that sound more like abuse. Or maybe you're reading news about another hazing hospitalization and wondering, "Could this happen to my child?" Right now, just miles from La Porte in Houston, our firm is fighting one of the most severe hazing cases in Texas history. We represent Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student who was hazed by the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter in fall 2025. What started as "pledging" ended with him passing brown urine, hospitalized for four days with rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure, facing potential permanent kidney damage. The alleged hazing included forced consumption of milk, hot dogs, and peppercorns until vomiting; being sprayed in the face with a hose "similar to waterboarding"; 100+ push-ups and 500 squats under threat of expulsion; and constant…