“IT’S BASICALLY RAPE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT. IT’S AMAZING TO ME THAT THERE HASN’T BEEN A PUBLIC OUTCRY ON THIS TO HELP STOP IT.”

Hank Nuwer, a hazing historian at Franklin College in Indiana, in an Associated Press examination of sexual violence in school sports as part of its larger look at student-onstudent sex assaults. Analyzing state education records, supplemented by federal crime data, the AP found about 17,000 official reports of sex assaults by students in kindergarten-12th grade over a recent four-year period.