LANCASTER COUNTY, Pa. (WHP) — A Christian academy is facing a lawsuit after a former student’s parents allege the headmaster’s son bullied and sexually harassed their son, who has autism, for years.

The suit was filed Jan. 2 against Dayspring Christian Academy, former principal and Headmaster Daniel Stone, the headmaster’s son, and members of the school’s board of trustees.

The lawsuit alleges that school administrators and board members were made aware that the headmaster’s son was bullying students with disabilities, including the student “CM” whose parents filed the suit, but ultimately did nothing to stop it.

The suit claims that CM was subjected to “relentless bullying and harassment” due to his disability, mostly at the hands of the headmaster’s son, who was in CM’s same grade class.

The lawsuit alleges the headmaster’s son would call CM names and stab him with pencils, leaving marks. The suit claims in another instance, the headmaster’s son cornered CM in a bathroom and whipped him with his belt on video in January 2023. It also claims the headmaster’s son sexually harassed CM.

“In May of 2023, [the headmaster’s son] himself bragged to two girls about the ‘rounding,’ claiming that another student turns out the lights in the bathroom, pins students down and puts things in their anus,” the suit claims.

Many of the headmaster son’s “victims” had known disabilities, according to the suit.

The suit claims that the school administration and board members had been aware of bullying by the headmaster’s son “for years,” prior to and during the 2022-23 school year.

The lawsuit claims that when administrators, including Headmaster Stone and board member Michael Myers, heard of these complaints, they responded by saying “boys will be boys” and “what do you want me to do about it?”

“Through various emails to parents of students at DCA, Headmaster Stone made clear that he was aware of bullying issues in [his son’s] grade class,” the suit says, citing an email Stone reportedly sent in 2018 to the parents of 6th grade boys—including his son and CM at the time—addressing the bullying.

In that email, Stone had reportedly promised that teachers would enforce certain changes, such as making changes to class schedules for lunches and only allowing boys to go to the bathroom one at a time.

The suit claims Stone never enforced any of those measures, and bullying went on in CM’s class for years.

Stone reportedly called a “prayer meeting” with 9th graders in 2022 to address students’ misbehavior, saying in an email to parents “I believe wholeheartedly that all of our children are under direct assault from Satan and his demons.”

The suit claims that the headmaster’s son eventually admitted to sexual harassment against CM and at one point apologized to CM’s parents by reading a statement from his phone.

The headmaster’s son and a few other students who took part in the sexual harassment withdrew for a couple weeks after the incidents came to light, but the suit claims that the headmaster allowed his son to attend extracurricular activities that CM was also present at.

The suit says that due to the alleged years of bullying, CM, now 19 years old, has to see a therapist to discuss his experiences at Dayspring Christian Academy.

In May of 2025, CM reportedly told his counselor he contemplated taking his life. The lawsuit said CM mentioned that in the same session where he first opened up about the trauma he endured at Dayspring Christian Academy from the headmaster’s son.

The lawsuit claims violations to the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act, negligence by school administrations and board members, a breach of contract by Dayspring Christian Academy, and accuses the headmaster’s son of battery and assault.

CBS 21 reached out to Stone for comment on the suit and allegations but has not heard back at this time.