Three years after findings of widespread mishandling of sexual abuse rocked the school district and prompted a federal investigation, Chicago Public Schools attorneys are in court aggressively fighting a special education student who reported being raped, asking a judge to rule in its favor in a lawsuit ahead of a trial later this month.
In court filings as recent as mid-January, officials have attacked the student’s testimony as “self-serving” and cast doubts as to whether an assault, allegedly committed by a classmate in a school bathroom, had even occurred. The district has probed whether the incident was consensual and if the student’s parents had told him it was bad to be gay.
