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Hazing at San Jacinto County, Texas Universities: A Legal Guide for Families Your Child Was Hurt During Pledging. Here's What San Jacinto County Families Need to Know. For parents in San Jacinto County, the call every family dreads might start with "Mom, Dad... something happened at school." Your child—a student at University of Houston, Texas A&M, or another Texas campus—joined a fraternity, sorority, Corps program, or athletic team to find community. Instead, they found humiliation, pain, and trauma masked as "tradition" or "bonding." Right now, in Texas, we're fighting one of the most serious hazing cases in the country. We represent Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student who nearly died from hazing by the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter. As detailed in the Click2Houston report on UH Pi Kappa Phi hazing case and ABC13 coverage of Leonel Bermudez's UH hazing lawsuit, Bermudez was subjected to extreme physical abuse, forced consumption of food until vomiting, and hours-long workouts that gave him rhabdomyolysis (severe muscle breakdown) and acute kidney failure. He passed brown urine, was hospitalized for four days, and faces ongoing risk of permanent kidney damage. This isn't an isolated incident. It's proof of what can—and does—happen at Texas…