When 16-year-old Johnson High student Emily Polk finally mustered up the courage to speak up about being sexually assaulted by her teammate, she found nobody from the school that would listen. Months after the incident, her mother found out and told officials at the school, but she too faced indifference.

“At one point I thought my daughter was going to kill herself because she was mentally and verbally abused,” said Brandy Pittman, Emily’s mother.

These inactions worry Pittman b...