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A lawsuit filed against a Missouri school district alleges that officials failed to protect a female student from repeated sexual assaults from a male student, and at one point expelled her for reporting the alleged attacks.
A rape examination proved that the girl was telling the truth, and the male student pleaded guilty to charges related to the attack, the suit alleges.
In a response filed in court, the Republic School District in Greene County, Mo., denied the allegations and called the lawsuit “frivolous.”
The lawsuit, filed in July, alleges that the girl was a special education student at a Missouri middle school in the 2008-2009 school year when she told officials about harassment, sexual assaults and a rape by a male student.
School officials told her that her story was not credible, and told her mother that she had recanted the story, the suit alleges.
The suit alleges that school officials made the girl write an apology letter and deliver it to the boy — without consulting with the girl’s mother.
She was then expelled for the rest of the school year and reported to juvenile authorities for allegedly filing a false crime report.
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