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The Complete Guide for San Patricio Families: Understanding Hazing, Texas Law, and Your Path to Accountability For a parent in San Patricio, Texas, the call can come at any hour. Your child, attending a university perhaps hours from home in the Coastal Bend, is in distress—hurt, humiliated, or hospitalized after what was supposed to be a brotherhood or sisterhood initiation. The university’s response is vague, the fraternity or sorority is circling the wagons, and you’re left searching for answers and accountability from your home in San Patricio County. Right now, in Texas, we are actively fighting one of the most serious hazing cases in recent memory. We represent Leonel Bermudez in a $10 million lawsuit against the University of Houston, the Pi Kappa Phi national fraternity, and 13 individual members of its shut-down Beta Nu chapter. As reported by Click2Houston and ABC13, Bermudez was subjected to a "pledge fanny pack" humiliation, forced overconsumption of food, being sprayed in the face with a hose "similar to waterboarding," and extreme physical workouts that led to rhabdomyolysis, acute kidney failure, and a four-day hospitalization. This is the stark reality of modern hazing in Texas. It’s not just "bad behavior"—it’s organized abuse that leads…