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FILE - In this May 1, 2017, file photo, officials investigate after a fatal stabbing attack at the University of Texas campus in Austin, Texas. An arrest affidavit said the University of Texas student accused of stabbing multiple students, one fatally, told police he didn't remember attacking anyone. Kendrex J. White, who authorities have said suffered from mental health troubles, was charged with murder in Monday's campus attack. He remained in jail Thursday, May 4, 2017, on $1 million bond. (Jay Janner/Austin American-Statesman via AP, File)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo, a school buses drives through Estill, S.C. Estill Middle School stands out as having one of the nation's largest single sexual assault cases reported on school grounds - at least four students, ages 11 to 14, were victimized by as many as 30 kids in 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, a bible message is written on a sign outside a store along the town's business district in Estill, S.C. Most parents in the town have no choice but to send their children to the public schools. More than 90 percent of students at Estill Middle School receive free or reduced lunch. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, a cross stands outside a church in Estill, S.C. Estill Middle School stands out as having one of the nation's largest single sexual assault cases reported on school grounds - at least four students, ages 11 to 14, were victimized by as many as 30 kids in 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, the town's business district is reflected in the Hampton County Sheriff's office window in Estill, S.C. What actually happened at Estill Middle School is unclear. Law enforcement officials told AP that no students reported being raped or forced into sex. But a grandmother of two of the girls who said they were forced by two classmates to perform oral sex, there is no doubt that something terrible happened. She cannot forgive what she sees as a failure to pursue the case; she dismisses suggestions that the evidence was too flimsy. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-In this Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017 photo, a swing hangs in front of the offices of Hampton County School District 2 in Estill, S.C. U.S. schools are failing to protect the children in their care _ and not just in places like Estill, impoverished and plagued by public schools that have been underfunded for decades. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo shows Estill Middle School, in Estill, S.C., where one of the nation's largest single sexual assault cases reported on school grounds was reported in 2013. At least four students, ages 11 to 14, were victimized by as many as 30 kids in 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo shows school buses parked at Estill Middle School, where a sexual assault case was reported in 2013, in Estill, S.C. Most parents have no choice but to send their children to the public schools. More than 90 percent of students at Estill Middle School receive free or reduced lunch. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-This Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017 photo shows the gym, left, at Estill Middle School in Estill, S.C. The school, mired in poverty, stands out as having one of the nation's largest single sexual assault cases reported on school grounds - at least four students, ages 11 to 14, were victimized by as many as 30 kids in 2013. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Damian Davies, now an unpaid assistant coach for the Leechburg High School girls basketball team, stands courtside before his team plays in Bellevue, Pa., on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. In January 2016, parents of two Leechburg boys high school basketball players complained that some players were sodomizing teammates with a phallic-shaped piece of wood they called a "yoshi" stick, records and interviews show. Davies lost his position as head boys coach, but says, "No players have ever come to me. ... As the players told me, either nothing happened or if it did it was a joke." (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Damian Davies, now an unpaid assistant coach for the Leechburg High School girls basketball team, sits courtside before his team plays in a league playoff game in Bellevue, Pa., on Friday, Feb. 17, 2017. In January 2016, parents of two Leechburg boys high school basketball players complained that some players were sodomizing teammates with a phallic-shaped piece of wood they called a "yoshi" stick, records and interviews show. Davies lost his position as head boys coach, but says, "No players have ever come to me. ... As the players told me, either nothing happened or if it did it was a joke." (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Amanda Jackson holds a basketball that belonged to her son as she poses for a photo on April 28, 2017, at a basketball court in a park where he used to play while growing up in Olympia, Wash. Jackson's son waited two years to tell her that he had been assaulted at a basketball camp in 2010 by several teammates, as a freshman at Capital High School in Olympia, Wash. “I felt like if I told someone,” he testified, “then I would have been, you know, excluded from the team and not able to play varsity basketball.” He finally spoke up after more boys were jumped at a similar camp, leading the district to investigate the school. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Amanda Jackson holds a basketball that belonged to her son as she poses for a photo on April 28, 2017, at a basketball court in a park where he used to play while growing up in Olympia, Wash. Jackson's son waited two years to tell her that he had been assaulted at a basketball camp in 2010 by several teammates, as a freshman at Capital High School in Olympia, Wash. “I felt like if I told someone,” he testified, “then I would have been, you know, excluded from the team and not able to play varsity basketball.” He finally spoke up after more boys were jumped at a similar camp, leading the district to investigate the school. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-Flags hang over the court at a varsity basketball game at Flower Flower Mound High School in Flower Mound, Texas, on Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2017. In 2011, Charles Freet lost his job as boys basketball coach at the school, and now works at a Dallas-area private school. After a Flower Flower Mound High School teacher reported that players were putting their fingers in teammates' bottoms, he told administrators investigating the allegations that the acts were merely a joke and not hazing. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-High school basketball coach Charles Freet speaks with an unidentifed man during warm ups before a junior varsity basketball game in Argyle, Texas, on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. Freet is working at a Dallas-area private school after he lost his job as boys basketball coach at Flower Mound High School in 2011. After a Flower Flower Mound High School teacher reported that players were putting their fingers in teammates' bottoms, he told administrators investigating the allegations that the acts were merely a joke and not hazing. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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ADVANCE FOR USE MONDAY, MAY 8, 2017 AND THEREAFTER-High school basketball coach Charles Freet stands on the sidelines during a junior varsity basketball game in Argyle, Texas, on Friday, Feb. 10, 2017. Freet is working at a Dallas-area private school after he lost his job as boys basketball coach at Flower Mound High School in 2011. After a Flower Flower Mound High School teacher reported that players were putting their fingers in teammates' bottoms, he told administrators investigating the allegations that the acts were merely a joke and not hazing. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
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Authorities investigate a school bus crash Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Las Vegas. Authorities said middle school students were on the full-sized yellow school bus that crashed about 8:30 a.m. Thursday at a busy crossroads northeast of downtown Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Christina Marquez, right, picks up her son Angelo Marquez at the scene of a school bus crash Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Las Vegas. Angelo Marquez was in a the school bus during the crash. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Family members pick up students at the scene of a school bus crash Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Las Vegas. Authorities said middle school students were on the full-sized yellow school bus that crashed about 8:30 a.m. Thursday at a busy crossroads northeast of downtown Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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A crime scene investigator walks by a wrecked car involved in a school bus crash Thursday, May 4, 2017, in Las Vegas. Authorities said middle school students were on a full-sized yellow school bus that crashed about 8:30 a.m. Thursday at a busy crossroads northeast of downtown Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
