The Justice Department is supporting the family of a girl who was raped after a teacher told her to act as bait to catch a suspected sexual predator at Sparkman Middle School in Toney, Ala.
The Daily Mail reports that the school had failed to discipline the suspected predator because he had not been caught in the act. So a teacher told a 14-year-old special needs student to meet the boy in a bathroom where he had allegedly had sexual encounters with other girls.
The ill-conceived plan took a horrifying turn when the suspect met her in a different bathroom, so no one came to help.
To support the family’s lawsuit against the Madison County School Board, the Department of Justice filed an amicus brief.
The filing alleges that the incident violated Title IX.
“School administrators knew the student’s extensive history of sexual and violent misconduct and were alerted to the substantial risk he posed,” the brief read.
