Girl sexually assaulted 20+ times in New Jersey elementary school bathroom, lawsuit says

The mother of an elementary school student filed a lawsuit last week against Verona Public Schools alleging her daughter was sexually assaulted by another student more than 20 times while in first and second grades.

The assaults allegedly occurred from October 2021 through January 2023 in a student bathroom at F.N. Brown Elementary School, according to the suit filed April 22 in Superior Court of Essex County.

The victim was 6 and 7 years old when her male classmate would enter the bathroom and crawl under her stall to molest her, the suit says.