After an Upper St. Clair freshman raped a student in the high school in February, he smeared his hand in a pool of her blood and made a handprint on the wall, a lawsuit asserts.

The handprint remained there for five days, during which two more girls were raped.

The allegations were made yesterday in a federal lawsuit brought by one of those girls against the school district and several administrators and teachers, who are accused of failing to provide adequate security and protect her from her assailant.

Filed under the name "Jane Doe," to protect the girl's privacy, the lawsuit claims that school officials were aware of the boy having committed previous sexual assaults on Jane Doe as well as other students, but failed to take appropriate action.

She and her parents are seeking unspecified money damages.

According to the lawsuit, one teacher, who knew of the boy having written inappropriate text messages to two girls and fondling one of them, required him to write notes of apology to them while serving an in-school suspension.

The acts were never reported to police, the lawsuit said.

Esther Haguel, an intervention specialist at the high school who required the apologies, is one of eight people named as defendants, including Superintendent Patrick O'Toole.

According to the lawsuit, Jane Doe had been friends with the boy. Both were students in an emotional support program in the school's special education program.

However, in the fall of 2007, she claims he sexually assaulted her twice outside of school.

Ms. Haguel noticed a bruise on the girl after one of the assaults and questioned the girl about it. Jane Doe told Ms. Haguel how the bruise occurred and Ms. Haguel told her she would talk to the boy's mother, the suit said.

The 35-page filing does not indicate whether Ms. Haguel ever reported that incident to police.

Then, in early January, the lawsuit states, the girl was sexually assaulted at the end of a school day in an unsecured area by the social studies wing.

Jane Doe claims that after that assault, she confided to Ms. Haguel that the boy forced her to perform sex acts on him, but that the teacher took no action.

Later in January, however, Ms. Haguel expressed concern for the girl's safety to the school principal and requested permission to escort her at the end of the day to wait for her bus.

The lawsuit contends that Principal Michael Ghilani, also a defendant, refused the request.

On Friday, Feb. 1, according to the complaint, the boy raped another girl in the stairwell, smearing his hand through her blood and making the handprint, which the lawsuit referred to as "a trophy."

The stain remained on the stairwell wall through the weekend.

Then, on the following Monday, the suit contends, he raped another girl at 3:30 p.m.

Thirty minutes later, the boy dragged Jane Doe out of a girl's bathroom and into the same stairwell, where he raped her, according to the lawsuit.

The next day, she reported the rape to Ms. Haguel, who went to school administrators, who called the girl's parents and Upper St. Clair police.

The boy, who was 14 at the time, has been charged with counts including rape, simple and aggravated assault, and terroristic threats.

The lawsuit contends that a video camera in a hallway captured images of the boy dragging Jane Doe down the hall. However, there were no security cameras in the stairwell.

In addition, the lawsuit cites two claims under federal Title IX, which prohibits sexual discrimination in educational programs. One is that the school district failed to remedy a sexually hostile environment affecting educational opportunities, and that Jane Doe was forced to switch schools because of the assaults.

She and her parents contend that Ms. Haguel engaged the victims in discussions about the assaults -- trying to alter their understanding of them -- making Jane Doe feel "very uncomfortable."

In a statement issued by their attorney, the parents of Jane Doe said they filed the lawsuit to ensure that what happened to their daughter doesn't happen to others.

"We were shocked to learn that in this day and age, the school district chose to treat criminal sexual assault like some harmless school prank in violation of both the law and its own policy," they said. "As a result, our daughter is now a rape survivor ... We want to make sure that in the future the Upper St. Clair School District and its administrators act swiftly and decisively to stop in-school sexual harassment and sexual assaults before another tragedy results."

Dr. O'Toole could not be reached for comment.

Also named as defendants were Dr. Terrence Kushner, assistant superintendent; Dr. Sharon Suritsky, supervisor of special education; Jace B. Palmer, assistant high school principal; Lou Angelo, assistant high school principal; and Jennifer Wagner, teacher.