The family filed a legal claim against North Thurston Public Schools alleging it failed to protect their non-verbal son from ongoing sexual assaults by a classmate.
LACEY, Wash. — A Lacey family has filed a legal claim against North Thurston Public Schools, alleging school staff failed to protect their nonverbal son with special needs from repeated sexual assaults by a classmate over a six-month period.
According to legal documents, the third-grader was sexually assaulted, harassed and abused by what the claim describes as a “sexually aggressive classmate” in his special needs classroom at Lacey Elementary School from November 2024 to June 2025.
Collin Pfingst,
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