A school district looking to avoid the application of the sexual abuse exception to sovereign immunity has failed to shake claims that it negligently allowed a kindergartener to be severely bullied by an older student. 

The school district’s preliminary objections sought to test the scope of a 2019 act that amended the Political Subdivision Tort Claims Act to allow negligence suits against government entities in instances of child sexual abuse.

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