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School administrators knew the student’s extensive history of sexual and violent misconduct and were alerted to the substantial risk he posed

She is believed to have been reluctant to go along with the plan, which the school’s vice-principal Jeanne Dunaway was allegedly informed of and did not seek to prevent, but eventually agreed and made contact with the boy.

However, he arranged to meet her elsewhere in the school building and raped her before the teachers could come to her aid. A medical examination found injuries consistent with her being assaulted.

According to legal documents filed as part of the case, the boy had been involved in at least 15 suspected incidents involving violence or unwanted sexual attention and had been recommended for constant surveillance after allegedly having sex with a girl in a school lavatory.

The court papers say: “School administrators knew the student’s extensive history of sexual and violent misconduct and were alerted to the substantial risk he posed.”

Yet when the girl complained to Ms. Simpson, the brief goes on, she encouraged her to “meet [the boy] in the bathroom where teachers could be positioned to ‘catch him in the act’ before anything happened.”

Eric Artrip, the girl’s lawyer, told CNN “something went wrong” after the boy arranged to meet the girl in a lavatory in a different part of the school.

“She stalled for time,” he said. “She continually tried to fight him off but ultimately was… raped by this young man. It was evident that this had been a severe trauma for her. It has essentially devastated her life.”

The boy was not prosecuted despite the medical evidence because prosecutors said they did not have a good enough case and the girl was unwilling to discuss the matter. Her mother died soon afterwards and she went to live in care in another state.