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The Complete Guide to Hazing in Texas: What Families in the Town of Broaddus Need to Know About Campus Safety and Legal Rights If Your Child Was Hurt in a Fraternity, Sorority, or Campus Group, You're Not Alone It starts with a phone call no parent in the Town of Broaddus ever wants to receive. Your child, who you sent off to college with hope and pride, is whispering from a hospital room or speaking through tears of shame and fear. The story comes out in fragments: late-night "workouts" that left them vomiting, forced drinking games during "bid acceptance," humiliating tasks demanded through constant group chats, or physical punishment disguised as tradition. They might say, "It's just what everyone does," or "I agreed to it," but you hear the pain in their voice and see the bruises they can't explain. For families in San Augustine County and across East Texas, the nightmare of campus hazing is real—and it's happening right now at universities where our children study. Right here in Texas, we're fighting one of the most serious hazing cases in the country. In November 2025, we filed a $10 million lawsuit on behalf of Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student who nearly died after brutal hazing by the Pi Kappa Phi Beta Nu chapter. His story—involving forced consumption of milk, hot dogs, and peppercorns until vomiting, 100+ push-ups and 500 squats under threat of expulsion, and ultimately rhabdomyolysis and acute kidney failure requiring four days of hospitalization—shows how…
