By Ben Velderman
EAGnews.org

MUNCIE, Ind. – Parents of a Burris Laboratory School student allege that their then 8-year-old son was repeatedly subjected to sexual abuse at the hands of three male classmates, while school officials ignored the problem and failed to implement basic security measures.

School officials say the facts don’t match the allegations.

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Last week, the parents of the alleged victim filed a lawsuit against the school, Ball State University (which operates the school), their son’s former second grade teacher, and the university’s board of trustees, reports JCOnline.com.

The lawsuit charges that the school’s “lack of supervision and institutional controls” allowed their son to be abused on 11 separate occasions over the course of three months in late 2011, reports the news site.

The lawsuit also claims that Burris officials failed to properly supervise students and gave them unrestricted Internet access on school computers and school-provided iPads, reports Fox59.com.

“Once on the internet, the students would watch pornographic videos and then ‘act out’ the scenes in various locations around the school,” the news site reports.

Tony Proudfoot, associate vice president of marketing and communications at Ball State University, told reporters that the university opened an investigation as soon as officials became aware of the allegations in December of 2011.

“The allegations in the complaint … bear no resemblance to the evidence or results of the investigations of the university or those of the agencies to which it was reported,” Proudfoot said.

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The parents have requested a jury trial, reports Fox 59.

Burris Laboratory School was established by Ball State’s teachers’ college in 1929, and is used to train university students who want to become educators. The school is a district onto itself, and accepts students from all over Indiana through a lottery system.

The good news is that Burris teachers and other staff members do not belong to unions. So if it’s determined that any employees were at fault, it will be much easier to fire them. Officials at union schools have to jump through many expensive legal hoops to rid themselves of problem employees, even when something as serious as sexual abuse is involved.