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The Complete Guide to Hazing in Texas: Legal Rights for Springlake Families If Your Child Was Hazed at a Texas University, You Are Not Alone It begins with excitement—a bid from a fraternity at Texas A&M, an invitation to join a sorority at UT Austin, acceptance into the Corps of Cadets, or making a spirit squad at Baylor. Your child, like so many bright students from Springlake and across Lamb County, leaves home with dreams of friendship, tradition, and belonging at a Texas university. But sometimes, that dream turns into a parent's nightmare. Picture this: your son or daughter is at an off-campus house near their university. It's "pledge night" or "initiation week." What starts as what they're told is "tradition" or "team bonding" becomes something darker. They're forced to drink far beyond their limits, endure painful physical workouts until they vomit, or perform humiliating acts while members laugh and record everything on their phones. When someone gets hurt, no one calls 911. They're told to keep quiet, to be "loyal," that "everyone before them did it." Your child feels trapped between wanting to belong and their own safety. This is not a hypothetical scenario. Right now, in Texas, we're fighting one of the most serious hazing cases in the country. We represent Leonel Bermudez, a University of Houston student who suffered catastrophic injuries during his Pi Kappa Phi fraternity pledging. According to detailed media coverage including Click2Houston's investigation and ABC13's report, Bermudez was subjected to extreme hazing that left…