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Charleston, South Carolina Fraternity Hazing: What Happened to Your Child and What the Law Can Do About It Your son left for the College of Charleston in the fall of 2021 as a six-foot, 170-pound varsity hockey player — confident, close to his family, engaged with his education. Within a month he was in a hospital with facial hives, rashes, and a diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder. He had been gagged with his own socks, pelted with eggs and beer cans, forced to drink vodka until he choked, held upside down by his ankles and made to drink a week-old keg until he blacked out — and then the people who did it to him recorded his suffering and shared it with other students as entertainment. That is what the lawsuit filed in Charleston County describes. And if you are reading this page because something similar happened to your child — at Sigma Chi, at another fraternity, at the College of Charleston or any university in this state — you need to understand three things right now: what happened is a crime under South Carolina law, the people responsible include more than just the students in the room, and the…