John R.K. Howard, 18, of Keller, Texas, and Tanner Ward, 17, of Richfield are both charged as adults with felony counts of forcible penetration by use of a foreign object. The third teen is charged as a juvenile with a lesser crime.

Ward’s criminal case was bound over to district court last month and he pleaded not guilty Monday during a district court arraignment. Howard, who is finishing high school in Texas, is set for a preliminary hearing June 10.

The lawsuit says the victim of the rape endured “racial bullying, racial name-calling, racial taunting, racial harassment and humiliation and at least one physical beating at an event sponsored by the high school and supervised by employees of the district.”

That beating came at the hands of Howard, a “large and aggressive male who had been sent to live with his relatives in Idaho due to his inability to keep out of trouble in Texas,” the suit said. It also said Howard brought with him from Texas “a culture of racial hatred towards the plaintiff.”

During a preseason football camp, players and coaches organized fist fights to help players “toughen up,” and one night Howard and the victim were assigned to fight, the suit alleges.