One of the two known sexual-abuse victims in Virginia’s Loudoun County school district is seeking $30 million in damages more than two years after she was assaulted in the girls’ bathroom by a “skirt-wearing” male student.

The high-school girl, who remained unnamed due to her young age, filed a Title IX lawsuit against the school board on Wednesday. The suit, filed through her parents and next friends, accuses Loudoun County Public Schools of trying to cover up her May 2021 incident and failing to provide support or protection.

Following the bathroom assault, she was “physically assaulted, threatened, and bullied by peers” to the extent that “it deprived her of access to a safe educational environment,” the lawsuit states.

The court filing further alleges the school board violated Title IX, a federal law prohibiting sex discrimination, for failing “to respond promptly and adequately to reports” of the incident. If an educational institution is found to have violated Title IX, its federal funds will be withdrawn.

“It’s been a very long two and a half years for my family to get here,” said Scott Smith, the father of the anonymous plaintiff. “We have put together a very strong Title IX lawsuit that we hope sets precedence across the nation to protect children and hold school districts accountable.”

Since the incident, Loudoun County was put on the national media’s radar for how it treated the investigation and its victims. In October 2021, the same perpetrator assaulted another female student at a different school in the local district. He was eventually convicted in juvenile court three months later.

However, school board members continued to cover up the situation. Ex-Loudoun County superintendent Scott Ziegler denied the existence of the “predator transgender student or person” at a school board meeting before he was terminated.

Last week, a jury found Ziegler guilty of retaliating against a teacher for cooperating with Virginia’s grand jury probe into the district’s alleged mishandling of sexual-assault cases.

Smith was pardoned last month by Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin (R., Va.) for charges related to his protesting at a Loudoun County School Board meeting. In June 2021, the father was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for speaking out about his teenage daughter’s trauma.

“We righted a wrong. He should’ve never been prosecuted here. This was a dad standing up for his daughter,” Youngkin said of Smith’s pardon in September. “His daughter had been sexually assaulted in the bathroom of a school, and no one was doing anything about it.”

State senator William Stanley (R., Va.), who practices law, is representing the Smith family in the latest case. The Loudoun County School Board told multiple media outlets it does not publicly comment on pending legal matters.