“When (the student) or another initiate failed to answer correctly, the older members would kick them in the chest and head,” the claim states.

Active members told pledges they would be beat up if the hazing activities were exposed, and went as far as staging a hoax to scare pledges out of reporting the activity, according to the claim. During the hoax, pledges were forced to perform various exercises, including planks, while they were kicked in the chest. They were told nobody actually reported the fraternity “after hours of physical and psychological torment,” according to the claim.

The student suffered his injuries during an April 12 incident, when he and his fellow pledges reported to the house, where their cell phones taken away. They were told to lie face down in a dark room, while active members slammed some pledges heads into the ground, and choked other pledges while being forced to recite the fraternity creed, according to the claim.

One member made the student do a wall-sit while interrogating him on his hometown, according to the claim. When he got it wrong, he was forced to drink a shot glass of Tapatio hot sauce. When he still couldn’t remember, the member flung a shot glass of El Yucateco Habanero into his eyes.