Parents of Huntsville, Arkansas, middle and high school students are still desperate for answers months after younger members of a boys’ basketball team alleged last winter that older boys sexually assaulted them in the locker room.”
I know these boys,” the mother of one victim told Fox News Digital on the condition of anonymity to protect her son from further harassment. “They’re having nightmares.”
Rebecca Nelle, a mother of another minor who experienced the abuse, sued the school district in September for allegedly forcing her son, identified as B.N. in the complaint, and “at least” 16 other children who were sexually harassed or assaulted to continue attending class “without any punishment on their abusers causing those that were sexually assaulted to be fearful of retaliation and retribution,” the complaint states.
B.N., after joining the team, “learned that ninth grade members of the boys’ basketball team would engage in forcible sexual assault against multiple boys’ Middle School players by having one or more students holding an eighth-grade member down while one or more Middle School basketball players would engage in what is called ‘baptism’ and ‘bean dipping…””
‘Baptism’…refers to placing one’s genitals on the face or in the mouth of another student. ‘Bean dipping’…refers to placing a student’s rectum and anus on the face and particularly the nose of another student,” the lawsuit states.