A 19-year-old woman testified on Thursday that she lost respect for herself and felt worthless because of the “relentless” bullying she endured after accusing two football players of sexually assaulting her at a party in 2012.

She was 14 and a student at Hebron 9th Grade Center when she attended the off-campus party. She said she had been drinking and alleges that her drink was spiked with a drug.

She told jurors that when she returned to school the following week, people made comments about her getting “gangbanged” and told her, “If you don’t wanna get raped, don’t drink."

“Being raped was bad, but the bullying is what heightened it, made it 10 times worse,” she tearfully testified.

The young woman said she blames Lewisville Independent School District for “80 percent” of the mental anguish she says she feels. The school district is on trial in a federal civil court this week, answering the woman’s claim that district officials retaliated against her after her parents reported the alleged attack and bullying.

The lawsuit hinges on Title IX, the federal law which protects students from sex-based discrimination. The former student who filed the suit is not being named because The Dallas Morning News does not generally name alleged victims of sexual assault. Her alleged attackers also are not being named because they were minors at the time and have not been charged with any crime.

Amanda Werneke was the Hebron 9th Grade Center assistant principal who led the school’s Title IX investigation into the allegations of sexual assault and bullying. She testified Thursday that she “wanted to do the right thing” and tried to help the young woman and her parents, but she acknowledged that the family was not notified of its Title IX rights at the start of the school’s investigation.

The school district determined after an investigation that it couldn’t find evidence of cyberbullying because district policy said it has to occur at school or at a school-sponsored event, Werneke testified.

The school also determined that it didn’t have enough evidence to be sure an assault had occurred, according to documents presented during the trial.

Werneke testified that the two boys admitted to school officials that they’d had sexual contact with the girl and claimed it was consensual.

That comment unleashed a fury of questions from the young woman’s attorney, Charla Aldous, who asked whether any 14-year-old could legally consent to sex if intoxicated.

One of the alleged assailants texted a student saying that night was “the most drunk I’ve ever seen anyone in my LIFE,” according to evidence presented in the trial.

Werneke told jurors she had seen that text message but still couldn’t determine how intoxicated the girl was because of “very, very mixed reports” from the students she interviewed.

Aldous has contended during the trial that one of the alleged attackers showed up at school the week after the party and claimed that the shorts he was wearing had the alleged victim’s “virgin blood” on them.

On the stand, Werneke said she believed that type of a comment would count as sexual harassment but struggled to explain why the school didn’t take any action against the boy.

“I wanted to do the right thing, I really did,” said Werneke, who is now the principal at the Hebron 9th Grade Center.

She testified that the accused boys were interviewed before the girl was interviewed. And she testified that the boys got to stay in school.

“We know the boys stayed at Hebron without a bump in the road, right?” Aldous asked.

“They stayed at Hebron, yes,” Werneke replied.

“The boys got to attend class unfettered or uninterrupted, yes?” Aldous asked.

“Yes, they stayed the whole year,” Werneke responded.

The young woman transferred to a home study program. In earlier testimony, she said she wanted to return to school but couldn’t because of the bullying and because the boys she accused of assaulting her remained on campus.

Referring to Werneke, she said, “I believe she was one of the many people who kicked me under the rug, didn’t care what happened to me.”

She said all she wants now is justice for herself and to “prove that I deserve more.”

Earlier in the day, the young woman's mother testified that she was “pleading for help” from the school in the months after the alleged assault.

“In the beginning, I believed that they were going by what they were supposed to do,” the mother said. “It was a lot of smoke and mirrors.”

When asked why the family didn’t report the alleged retaliation to higher authorities in the district, such as the board of trustees, she said she didn’t know she had that option.

She bristled when the Lewisville ISD’s attorney questioned her about her family’s motive for suing the school and when asked why she believed they were retaliated against.

“You have no idea what it’s like to be blindfolded, spun around five times and pushed into a dark room,” she told the school district’s attorney during her testimony.

During her testimony, the attorney presented excerpts of notes from the young woman's counseling sessions. In the notes, the counselor wrote that the teen was frustrated with her father and felt she was being punished by her parents for being sexually assaulted.

The mother responded that counselors who were seeing the girl had warned them that it was common for survivors of sexual violence to take their anger out on people “they love the most.”

“She was angry about not being in school and we were her place to fall on,” the mother testified.

The school district’s attorney pointed out that the counselor’s notes didn’t mention any “mental anguish” because of the school. He instead suggested that her anguish may have to do with the fact that the boys were never prosecuted criminally.

A grand jury decided to no-bill the cases, which means criminal charges weren’t filed against the young men. The reason why has not yet been addressed in court.