Charter sued in grope of student

The mother of a Brooklyn charter school student said a fellow student sexually harassed and groped her daughter during a makeup test, and the school did nothing to protect her from her attacker.

In a lawsuit filed in Brooklyn Federal Court, Cherice Brown says her daughter was molested and harassed by a fellow student at Uncommon Charter High School in Brooklyn last year — and school administrators proposed changing her schedule while letting her assailant keep normal school hours.

“My daughter, she was just horrified,” fumed Brown.

Brown’s daughter, identified as A.B. in the lawsuit, was at school to take a makeup Spanish test, her mother said. A proctor noticed a boy staring at her during a group portion of the test, but staff still decided to put the two alone in a room together without staff supervision for a second part of the exam, Brown alleges.

“Hey, you a virgin?” the student asked, according to the lawsuit. When she rebuffed his question, he told her, “Look under the desk. I’ve got something to show you,” court papers said.

She told him “No,” and he started moving his hands under the table, as if he was taking out his penis, the suit says.

He knocked her eraser off the table and asked her to pick it up, in a ploy to get her to bend over, and when she refused, he crawled under the table and grabbed her buttocks and leg, the lawsuit alleges.

“I can tell you like me, you just not admitting it,” he allegedly told her. “I know you want this d—-.”

He also grabbed her vitamin water, took a sip and put it on the floor, again asking her to bend over and get it.

When she refused, he picked it up and passed her the bottle — along with a post-it note with his contact information, the suit says.

Brown said she heard about the incident from her distraught daughter that afternoon, and was shocked the school had left the students unsupervised.

“For you to leave two students alone in a room by themselves is incredibly crazy for me,” she said.

The student and her mother reported what happened to school officials, and they responded by offering to push back the girl’s school start time so she didn’t have to run into her alleged assailant in the morning, Brown said.

The boy would have served an in-school suspension without missing any school time under the plan, Brown said.

The school also refused to transfer the boy to another school, forcing A.B. to change schools to stay away from him.

Brown said the effects of enduring the assault and having to abruptly change schools have been profound.

Her daughter talked about suicide in the immediate aftermath of the incident and “still acts really skittish around males she doesn’t know,” Brown said.

Officials at Uncommon Schools declined to comment.