A Miami-Dade jury has awarded a family of a boy sexually abused at Downtown Miami Charter School a $5.25 million award against the school.

Boca Raton attorney Jeffrey M. Herman, a partner at Herman, Mermelstein & Horowitz, filed the lawsuit in 2012, alleging the then 7-year-old boy was orally raped by an older boy on the way to school in a transport van and two more times in the school rest room.

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