Penn State fraternity Phi Beta Sigma is officially facing hazing charges after two brothers were accused of the crime in May.

The Lambda Lambda chapter of Phi Beta Sigma was charged on Thursday with one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to commit organizational hazing. It was charged under the Timothy Piazza Antihazing Law, named after Penn State student Piazza, who died after a hazing ritual at the Beta Theta Pi fraternity house in February 2017.

President Jayson Archer and the head of recruitment, Jacob Francis, were each accused of leading violent hazing rituals against new members in May after State College police received an anonymous tip, saying, “This is not brotherhood, it’s abuse. We can’t stay silent any longer. Please help us!!”

It claimed that the pledges were being hit so much that they were physically marked, forced to travel to other universities for “lock up” with other pledges there, punished, and had to be ready to bleed for their fraternity and be a “bloody LL.”

Police began investigating after receiving the tip and worked with Penn State’s Office of Student Accountability and Conflict Response (OSACR) to see if the report could be substantiated.

After OSACR interviewed fraternity recruits, the police were granted a warrant to obtain texts between potential victims and another to search an apartment, seizing the phones of Archer and Francis and multiple paddles used to hit victims.

The pledges were told who they were allowed to talk to and could not make eye contact with other chapter members in public. Some pledges experienced physical complications from the hazing, including fainting.

Phi Beta Sigma has been placed on suspension since March 18. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for Aug. 13.

Archer and Francis waived their preliminary hearings, and their next court date is a pre-trial conference scheduled for Sept. 15.