After report being raped at school,12 years old boy is told to “turn the other check”

The Brentwood Academy, an elite, private  school in a suburb of Nashville, is accused of first allowing and then covering-up and refusing to report the repeated sexual assault of a 12-year-old boy by older school students.

The Tennessean reports:

“A prestigious Williamson County private school is accused of allowing teenage boys to repeatedly sexually assault a 12-year-old boy, then downplaying the attacks and refusing to report them to authorities, according to a lawsuit seeking more than $60 million”.

According to the report, four eighth-grade bullies repeatedly raped and sexually assaulted a sixth-grade student, yet school authorities did nothing, and instead advised the victim to remain silent.

The assaults are described in graphic detail in the lawsuit. The Tennessean reports:

On five separate dates during the 2014-2015 school year, four eighth-grade male students at Brentwood Academy sexually assaulted John Doe, a 6th grader, the lawsuit states.The first incident occurred at an after-school football game party, the lawsuit says. Students at the party restrained John Doe, placing their buttocks on his face and their scrotums on or in his mouth, the lawsuit says.On four other dates, four male student and others “conspired to engage in male on male sexual harassment, sexual assault and/or rape upon John Doe in the locker room not supervised by an adult,” according to the suit

When the 12-year-old allegedly told Masters what had happened to him, he was told to “turn the other cheek” and “everything in God’s kingdom happens for a reason.”