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The Hazing Crisis in Texas: A Comprehensive Legal Guide for Briar Families If Your Child Was Hazed at a Texas University, You're Not Alone For parents in Briar, the nightmare often begins with a late-night call, a cryptic text, or a sudden change in your college student that you can't quite explain. Maybe your child at the University of Texas at Austin has become secretive about their fraternity activities. Perhaps your Texas A&M student in the Corps of Cadets comes home with unexplained injuries or exhaustion that goes beyond normal college stress. Or maybe, like Leonel Bermudez at the University of Houston, your child suffers catastrophic medical consequences from what was supposed to be a normal pledge process. Right now, in Texas, we're fighting one of the most serious hazing cases in the country. In late 2025, we filed a $10 million lawsuit on behalf of Leonel Bermudez against the University of Houston, the Pi Kappa Phi fraternity's Beta Nu chapter, its national headquarters, and 13 individual fraternity leaders. The allegations are disturbing: forced consumption of food until vomiting, extreme physical workouts, being sprayed in the face with a hose "similar to waterboarding," and carrying a degrading "pledge fanny pack" containing condoms and sex toys. This hazing led to rhabdomyolysis—severe muscle breakdown—and acute kidney failure that hospitalized Bermudez for four days and continues to threaten his long-term health. This isn't an isolated incident. It's part of a pattern that affects families across Texas, including right here in Briar and throughout…
