14 year old girl who was used as bait to try and catch an older boy in the act of raping her was raped by the boy because school officials lost track of her.
A teachers aid hatched the sting and They were suppose to go into a bathroom but the boy took her into a different bathroom and raped her while staff had lost track of her.
It seems like the staff and school board covered this up as best they could, even letting the boy back in the school. The original lawsuit was thrown out but now an appeals court is saying they can sue the school board.
The 14-year-old girl who was raped during a botched sting operation in a middle school bathroom in north Alabama five years ago can sue the Madison County school board in federal court for deliberate indifference to the educational opportunities of young girls.
"These are highly unique and extreme facts that will hopefully never again be repeated," wrote the appeals judges in a lengthy, complicated ruling on exactly who is liable for sending an eighth-grade girl to catch a serial sexual harasser in the act.
A teachers aide hatched the sting operation to catch the boy in the act. But teachers arrived too late. Medical records show the girl was anally raped. She withdrew from Sparkman Middle and the boy returned after a stint at the alternative school.
The resulting lawsuit against the board was thrown out by the lower court, and brought back to life today by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.