The family of a 9-year-old girl who was allegedly assaulted and raped multiple times by another student on a Boston school bus has filed a lawsuit against Boston Public Schools, reports Boston 25 News.

The lawsuit, which was filed by Morgan & Morgan in Suffolk Superior Court, also includes the City of Boston, Match Charter School, and a Transdev bus driver and monitor as defendants. According to the lawsuit, the girl, who is a student at Match Charter Public School in Hyde Park, endured repeated sexual assault and rape by an 11-year-old student over seven months during the 2022-2023 school year.

“The sexual assaults occurred on diverse dates over seven months and were committed by another 11-year-old student,”

the lawsuit stated.

“The sexual assaults took place just a few feet from the bus monitor and the bus driver on the ride home after school from the Match Charter Public School.”

The lawyers at Morgan & Morgan say that the young girl had to leave school early out of fear of facing further physical or social consequences.

“Our client will experience a childhood haunted by trauma and flashbacks, and we will do everything in our power to hold the defendants accountable and prevent anything like this from happening to another child in our city.”

The lawsuit also alleges that the Transdev bus driver and monitor

“either knew, or reasonably should have known, of the repeated and ongoing sexual abuse,”

and that they had a

“duty to identify, intervene, and take steps to end and report the abuse as well as to take reasonable steps to prevent it from reoccurring.”

The lawsuit further alleges that Transdev and/or its co-defendants

“negligently, recklessly, and/or intentionally lost or destroyed video footage”

from the bus.

#Clique, what are your thoughts?