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A high school girl who was sexually assaulted on campus so violently that she needed surgery brought a federal complaint against Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, claiming it failed to protect her from her attacker, telling her mother: “If we punish him, we have to punish her.”

HOUSTON — A high school girl who was sexually assaulted on campus so violently that she needed surgery brought a federal complaint against Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District, claiming it failed to protect her from her attacker, telling her mother: “If we punish him, we have to punish her.”

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