PHILADELPHIA — A distraught high school student asked school officials for help when another student videotaped him having sex on a school trip to Morocco but was instead suspended over the off-campus behavior, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Philadelphia.

Anders Hemdal, 16, accuses the Schuylkill Valley School District of unfairly suspending him for “disorderly conduct,” when he said the sexual activity with his girlfriend of two years, a fellow student, was consensual and legal.

Rules for the Spanish Club trip to Spain and Morocco in April said students would be sent home — not suspended — if they engaged in sexual activity and other proscribed behavior, according to a document attached to the lawsuit.

Hemdal wants the four-day suspension removed from his academic record and seeks more than $75,000 in damages for being denied an education without due process and for emotional distress and invasion of privacy.

“He’s the victim. He self-reported this. And now you’re going to suspend him?” family lawyer Joshua Prince said Monday. “He didn’t cause the criminality to occur.”

Superintendent Warren Mata declined to comment Monday, saying the district hadn’t seen the lawsuit.

Hemdal’s then-girlfriend was also suspended, as was the third student, who is accused of making the video on a cell phone and distributing it to other students.