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An institutional tradition of brutal hazing was tolerated, and even encouraged, by administrators and staff at South Carolina's well known and influential Camden Military Academy, according to the allegations of a federal lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Columbia on March 23, 2012. Lead counsel Marguerite S. Willis, along with William S. Tetterton and R. Keegan Federal Jr., represent a former student who enrolled at Camden when he was 13 and claims to have been treated in the school's infirmary 19 times in four months of constant harrassment, repeated beatings and, ultimately, forcible sodomy and rape.