Parents of 19-year-old college student Daniel Santulli (originally from Eden Prarie, MN) are suing a Missouri fraternity (Phi Gamma Delta) over hazing.

According to StopHazing.org,  “Hazing is any activity expected of someone joining or participating in a group that humiliates, degrades, abuses, or endangers them, regardless of a person’s willingness to participate.”

This, unfortunately, happened to Santulli and the rest of his pledge class as they stood blindfolded in a room at the Fiji house before they met the older fraternity member who was to be their “pledge father.” After the reveal, the pledges received an assignment from their newly-unveiled superiors: drink a bottle of hard liquor.

What makes matters worse is that some of the “Pledge fathers” taped the bottles of alcohol to their hands for added pressure. Daniel was allegedly forced to drink a bottle of vodka during this pledge to the fraternity. Daniel was later found in a car at the University hospital unconscious and his blood alcohol content was 0.486%, six times more than the legal limit to drive.

According to the lawsuit, Daniel remains unresponsive, unaware of his surroundings, unable to communicate, and has a significant brain injury more than 100 days after. Since 2017 the fraternity has had multiple violations of alcohol use.

In 2017 the fraternity was responsible for the death of Andrew Coffey who drank a bottle of hard alcohol from the fraternity. Attorney David Bianchi, the family’s attorney who specializes in hazing litigation, said “Santulli’s injury was not an isolated event.”

The lawsuit also states that “None of this was new.”