The Islamic School of Irving is being sued for over $1 million by a female claiming she was brutally raped by a 14-year-old male and school officials failed to call police. According to the Dallas County petition, Doe and her mother were working for a contractor hired to clean the school on the evening of Sept. 27, 2024. The school shares a campus with a mosque and is connected to it by doors that the lawsuit says should have been locked after hours. Doe said she saw a 14-year-old boy, identified only as OEA, loitering in a school hallway during a mosque event and told him he should not be there because the school was closed. The petition alleges that OEA then locked himself in a classroom bathroom. As Doe began to leave the room,“ he suddenly ran toward her, grabbed her by the neck, choked her and slammed her body against the door. He then pulled her back into the classroom, turned the light off, and told her that he was going to kill her.” The lawsuit says that despite her pleas, he continued to strangle her, raped her, threatened to kill her if she told anyone, and took her phone.

Doe said she ran to a security guard in the parking lot and asked him to call police. Instead, the petition alleges, the guard yelled at her to stop crying and alerted school officials. Officials took her to an office and said they would “handle it.” ‘

Rather than calling 911, staff allegedly had her show them the room, photographed the scene, pulled up a photo of the boy, and remarked that he had previously been suspended for attempting to rape a female student. Doe identified him as her attacker.

The lawsuit says no one at the school or mosque summoned help. Officials instead asked whether she was a U.S. citizen and offered her money. Doe then found her mother elsewhere in the building; her mother called Doe’s manager, who called police. Officers arrested OEA on the property and took Doe to a hospital for a SANE exam.

The lawsuit also alleges that the school official told the victim he tried raping another female student previously.

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