Devastated Arkansas parents still looking for answers after basketball team sexual assault incident
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Parents of Huntsville, Arkansas, middle school students are still desperate for answers months after several younger members of a boys' basketball team alleged that older boys sexually assaulted them in the locker room.
The mother described horrific abuse allegations, which first surfaced last winter, but began to receive significant media attention in June, saying the abuse caused some boys to "throw up" after it occurred.
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…"