The Florida family of a College of Charleston student is suing the South Carolina college, a fraternity and eight fraternity members over repeated hazing activities that allegedly led to the  student being hospitalized with severe facial hives and rashes.

Members of the Ide family filed the lawsuit April 30 in the Ninth Judicial Circuit Court in Charleston County on behalf of Sarasota County, Fla., resident Will Ide, who pledged to the local Iota Epsilon chapter of the Sigma Chi fraternity in the fall of 2021.

The lawsuit describes repeated incidents of forced intoxication, humiliation and ridicule, torture and mental anguish, concluding that the college and the fraternity were liable for the actions that led to the student’s apparent post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the wake of the hazing incidents.