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The Complete Texas Parent's Guide to Hazing: Understanding Your Rights, Recent Cases, and Path to Accountability If you are a parent in Texas, the nightmare often begins with a phone call in the middle of the night, or a text message that doesn’t quite add up. Your child, so excited to join a campus community, is now fatigued, secretive, or injured. They talk about “mandatory” events, laugh off bruises, or suddenly need money for unexplained expenses. In the fall of 2025, this nightmare became a devastating reality for one Texas family and is now the focal point of a $10 million lawsuit that exposes the brutal truth about modern hazing. Right now, our firm represents Leonel Bermudez, a student who accepted a bid to the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter at the University of Houston. What followed was a campaign of abuse that nearly killed him. According to a lawsuit filed in Harris County, Bermudez was subjected to a “pledge fanny pack” rule carrying humiliating items, forced through extreme physical workouts at locations including the chapter house, a Culmore Drive residence, and Yellowstone Boulevard Park, and sprayed in the face with a hose in a manner “similar to waterboarding.”…