Wake County Public School System is being sued for the second time in recent months over allegations it failed to respond to the reported sexual assault of a student. (Photo: Antonio Hugo/Getty Images)
The Wake County school system is facing its second lawsuit in recent months alleging that school officials failed to stop a student from repeatedly sexually assaulting a classmate.
The latest lawsuit, filed Jan. 26 in Wake County Superior Court, alleges that a 7-year-old girl was sexually assaulted multiple times by a second-grade classmate during the spring of 2023 while attending Beaverdam Elementary School. According to the complaint, the assaults continued after the child reported the behavior to her teacher…