Pennsylvania Lawsuit Puts Schools’ Responses to Sexual Abuse Reports Under Crosshairs

A teenage girl, who claims to be a victim of sexual abuse and alleged grooming, poses in Rotherham, England, on Sept. 3, 2014. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

A Pennsylvania lawsuit has lawmakers looking closer at how schools should respond to reports of sexual abuse.

A former North Penn School District student is suing a suburban Philadelphia school for failing to protect her from a male classmate who she says sexually assaulted her over 20 times between elementary school and high school during recess, in the classroom, on stairways, in the library and in the lunchroom.