Virginia school system says ongoing claim of sex assaults on school grounds was fabricated

By MATTHEW BARAKAT
Associated Press

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — Lawyers for Virginia’s largest school system say that allegations by a 7th grader who said she was repeatedly raped at her school more than a decade ago are a total fabrication. The onetime student, who is now 24, stands by her claims. The allegations first surfaced in 2011 and have been the subject of legal proceedings for more than a decade. They were also the basis for a 2014 settlement between Fairfax County schools and the U.S. Department of Education. Now, though, the school system’s lawyers say they uncovered Facebook posts between the then-12-year-old girl and a classmate that show she was a willing participant in a sexual relationship.