News reports that the alleged abuse occurred in a classroom reading nook.
An attorney for the family filed a lawsuit against the district Thursday. Many details of the abuse have not been released, but attorney Kelly Clark says that inappropriate touching and contact, not intercourse, was involved, KOIN reports. A jury has not considered the allegations of abuse. The lawsuit claims that the school didn't take any action until a teacher's assistant caught the boy improperly touching the girl in a supply closet just outside the classroom. School district spokesman Lew Fredericks says that the district believes the lawsuit is unwarranted.