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Hazing, Accountability & Your Legal Rights: A Guide for Throckmorton, Texas Families If Your Child Was Hurt in a Fraternity, Sorority, or Campus Group, You're Not Alone For parents in Throckmorton and across North Texas, sending a child to college is a proud milestone. You imagine them building a future, finding community, and creating lifelong memories. But for some families, that dream turns into a nightmare when a call comes in the middle of the night. Your child is in the hospital. The story doesn't add up. Words like "tradition," "pledging," and "brotherhood" are used to explain away injuries that look like abuse. Right now, just a few hours from Throckmorton in Houston, our firm is fighting one of the most serious hazing cases in Texas. We represent Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student who nearly lost his life pledging Pi Kappa Phi. The allegations in this $10 million lawsuit are graphic: forced consumption of milk and hot dogs until vomiting, extreme workouts of 100+ push-ups and 500 squats, lying in vomit-soaked grass, and being sprayed in the face with a hose in a manner "similar to waterboarding." The result? Leonel developed rhabdomyolysis—severe muscle breakdown—and acute kidney failure. His…