An elite Christian prep school in Tennessee allegedly failed to prevent the repeated rape and sexual assault of a 12-year-old boy — and then failed to report the attacks to authorities, according to a graphic civil lawsuit seeking $30 million in damages.

The lawsuit — filed by a Nashville mother and her son on Aug. 4 in Williamson County Circuit Court — alleges four eighth-grade students at the $24,690-per-year Brentwood Academy outside of Nashville played a role in repeatedly raping and sexually assaulting a sixth-grade boy during the 2014-15 school year.

The school’s headmaster, Curtis Masters, allegedly told the 12-year-old boy to “turn the other cheek” and that “everything in God’s kingdom happens for a reason,” according to the lawsuit, which also names several school officials as defendants, including the school’s sixth-grade basketball coach Mike Vasquez, who is also Masters’ son-in-law, the Tennessean reports. Masters, in a statement to the newspaper, did not deny any of allegations contained in the lawsuit, but vowed a “vigorous” defense in court.

“We responded immediately and fully cooperated with authorities when we became aware of concerns in 2015,” Masters told the newspaper. “We are obligated to maintain confidentiality in any legal matter. Out of respect for all parties involved, and based on the advice of our legal counsel, we are unable to discuss details at this time.”

Master later denied in a separate statement that anyone at the 780-student school heard allegations of rape in connection to the case in 2015.

“Certain allegations in the lawsuit and highlighted in the media are not factual, will be disputed, and our defense will be vigorous,” Masters told the newspaper.

The attacks, as detailed in the lawsuit, allegedly occurred on five separate dates during the 2014-15 school year, beginning with one incident at an after-school football game party, where students restrained the victim — identified as John Doe in the lawsuit — and placed their buttocks on his face and scrotums on or in his mouth, according to the lawsuit.

Four male students and others conspired on four other occasions to sexually assault or rape the boy, according to the lawsuit. During one instance, one of the boys allegedly called out the 12-year-old boy’s name in a locker room before attacking him, as other students held doors closed or acted as lookouts to prevent others from leaving.

“[The boy] would place his penis before John Doe and forcibly penetrated it into the mouth of Plaintiff John Doe without consenting claiming ‘eat it, eat it, eat it, open your mouth, accept it,’” according to the lawsuit.

The same boy also forcibly penetrated the boy’s anus and later “exclaimed about this sexual assault and that he ejaculated on plaintiff John Doe,” according to the lawsuit.

Several students spoke about the alleged abuse with their parents, culminating in April 2015, when the mother of a sixth-grade student told John Doe’s mother of what happened to her son.

The lawsuit also accuses Daystar Counseling Ministries of failing to report the alleged sexual assault to proper authorities, as required by state law. Daystar is not named as a defendant in the lawsuit, but a counselor at the Christian-based business told Jane Doe that reporting allegations of abuse is not how “Christian institutions handle these things,” according to the lawsuit.

Daystar officials, in a statement on its website, denied the allegations, claiming that they “responded immediately and thoroughly” when they learned of allegations of “inappropriate activity” at the prestigious school in 2015.

Police in Brentwood continue to investigate the case, confirming last week that it remains open, the Tennessean reports. A police official also confirmed the authenticity of a statement by the 12-year-old detailing sexual assault allegations roughly two years before he and his mother filed the civil lawsuit, according to the newspaper.

An attorney representing the mother and her son, meanwhile, questioned why the accused boys have not been arrested since that time.

“This is where musicians and politicians and executives send their children,” attorney Roland Mumford told the Washington Post. “The one constant thing over the decades has been: protect the athletes, protect the athletes, protect the athletes.”