BOSTON — The family of a 9-year-old girl who was allegedly assaulted and raped multiple times by another student on a Boston school bus filed a lawsuit Friday that accuses Boston Public Schools of failing to protect the child on her rides home from class.
The lawsuit, filed by Morgan & Morgan in Suffolk Superior Court, also names the City of Boston, the Match Charter School, and a Transdev bus driver and monitor as defendants.
The girl, a student at the Match Charter Public School in Hyde Park, was repeatedly sexually assaulted and raped on the bus by an 11-year-old student over the course of seven months during the 2022–2023 school year, the lawsuit alleges.
“The sexual assaults occurred on diverse dates over seven months and were committed by another 11-year-old student,” the lawsuit stated. “The sexual assaults took place just a few feet from the bus monitor and the bus driver on the ride home after school from the Match Charter Public School.”