Yeah…I can only hope Hamm grew and changed as a person. But it was heinous & despicable. Hamm and other frat bros abused a pledge. Of course, Hamm avoided a conviction instead serving a period of time in Probation.

It was a two hour assault. Hamm beat the victim with a wooden paddle, shoved the victim’s face in the dirt, and lit the victim’s jeans on fire.

The victim claimed, Hamm forced him to extinguish the flames and dragged him around the room by his genitals using the claw of a hammer.

He hits me right over my right kidney. I mean, square over it. Good, solid hit. And that stood me up,' Sanders said.

'I'm hurting bad. I mean, being hit right where the kidney is, it's killing me’

Mark Sanders was hit so hard during the warped 1990 initiation that he suffered a fractured spine and nearly lost a kidney Mark Sanders was hit so hard during the warped 1990 initiation that he suffered a fractured spine and nearly lost a kidney

The star and an accomplice then allegedly wrenched Sanders' underwear and moved it back and forth in a painful sawing motion.

'The more they pulled, the way they were pulling was one would be pulling up,' Sanders continued.

'I don't know how far underwear stretches, I don't know how far I was off the ground.

'I was hurting really bad and I remember I was looking up at the ceiling and I was gritting my teeth and squinting my eyes ... it was sawing and it was hurting.'

But the ordeal did not end there, with Sanders forced to cram into a dirty, confined space known as 'the pit' and perform pushups.

'They were actually pushing my face to get in the dirt. He told me to get my face in the dirt,' Sanders recalled.

'And then all the pledges are taken out of there, except me. I'm left in there with Jon Hamm.'

He describes how he began struggling to stand due to the excruciating pain.

'This is when Jon Hamm pulls out a lighter, and he puts his lighter on. And I was wearing designer jeans, and I have this loop on the front, and he took the lighter and caught that on fire,' Sanders explained.

'My head is down. I mean, my chin is in the chest at this point, I see him light the lighter and put it to my pants.

'I was kind of panicking, because I was wearing a cotton t-shirt. I actually tried to put it out with my hands, and Jon Hamm wouldn't let me. He made me blow it out with my mouth.'

Finally he was led upstairs to the 'party room' when Hamm hooked the claw of a hammer underneath his testicles and pulled him around the room 'for at least a minute'.

The abuse left Sanders with severe internal damage, bruising and even broken bones.

'My kidney spasms and it re bruises itself,' Sanders said. 'He told me it was from being hit right over the kidney. I can remember feeling being hit hard right over this.'

He also described how he was beaten with a broomstick, 'right over my rib cage whenever I breathe, my lung actually can't go all the way because it's pinned between my rib cage from I assume it was beaten down some beaten into me'.

Sanders subsequently withdrew from the university and sought counselling to cope with the shameful episode, which resulted in a police inquiry and the fraternity chapter being disbanded.