All the other players had left the locker room, but two of the boy’s teammates stayed behind, the suit said.
The two upperclassmen held the student down and sexually assaulted him, according to the federal lawsuit. The boy recalls “screaming and yelling as loud as he could.”
After the assault, he went to the basketball court, the suit said, where his teammates were laughing, “knowing exactly what had happened.” The coach was also on the court, and it had become clear that he’d heard the student shouting but ignored the assault and “did nothing,” the suit said.
That was one of many sex assaults he’d endure by his teammates at his high school in La Vernia, Texas (about 30 miles east of San Antonio), the suit said. They happened more times than the student could count, the suit says, but the victim estimates they occurred at least 30 times while he was a student from October 2016 to February 2017.