Prior to the sexual assault, the boy is said to have reported harassment and bullying to the director of the theater group and his school principal. The rape allegedly happened in a Morgantown Theatre Company dressing room in the spring of 2017. The lawsuit is being brought against the Monongalia County Board of Education, a local theater group and one of the boy's teachers, according to a report from WBOY. The high school student, who is gay, was allegedly bullied, assaulted and raped by a fellow student in 2017. A lawsuit by the mother of a West Virginia boy suggests that homophobia may be a factor in failing to prevent the boy's rape, and later ignoring it.
