Loudoun County College Board Votes to Cover Report Into Male ‘Gender-Fluid’ Pupil Raping College students from Dad and mom

The Loudoun County Public Faculties college board voted on Tuesday night time to maintain the findings of an unbiased report on sexual assault non-public. The report, compiled by the regulation agency Blankingship and Keith, targeted on how the district responded to 2 sexual assault incidents at Stone Bridge Excessive College in Might 2021. The 15-year-old “gender fluid” male pupil pleaded responsible to counts of rape in “pressured sodomy” and “pressured fellatio” towards a teenage lady at Stone Bridge. The coed allegedly sexually assaulted one other teenage lady at Broad Run Excessive College whereas ready for his first trial.

The college board claimed that it needed to preserve the repot secret as a result of it might reveal college students’ private knowledge, in violation of the regulation. College Board Member John Beatty contested this declare, telling The Each day Sign that he made a movement to redact college students’ names in releasing the report.

In December, a particular grand jury launched a separate report on Loudoun County Public Faculties’ dealing with of the 15-year-old “gender fluid” pupil’s a number of sexual assaults. The grand jury, which Virginia Republican Legal professional Normal Jason Miyares requested in April, consisted of Loudoun County residents, who heard from over 40 witnesses and perused over 100 items of proof.

The jury’s report states that Loudoun County Public Faculties “failed at each juncture….LCPS as a corporation tends to keep away from managing troublesome conditions by not addressing them totally.” The grand jury steered that the report be launched to the general public so the neighborhood would possibly view as a lot info as potential.

Miyares launched a press release in early December thanking the grand jury and the AG “particular investigation unit” for wanting into LCPS, and inspired “each Virginian” to learn the particular report.

It’s obvious that the Loudoun County College Board failed to offer correct oversight, accountability, and transparency on the superintendent and their workers exactly at a time when the victims wanted them probably the most.

It’s our hope that this grand jury report will result in constructive change—not simply in Loudoun County faculties, but in addition in each college district within the Commonwealth, as a result of the safety of our youngsters must be our first precedence.

Following the grand jury’s findings, superintendent Scott Ziegler was fired. Now the LCPS college board has voted, 6-3, to maintain the report non-public.

LCPS instructed The Each day Sign that the College Board cited the Household Instructional Rights and Privateness Act (FERPA) in preserving the report non-public. “The report comprises personally identifiable info relating to college students,” the varsity district spokesperson stated in an electronic mail assertion. “Whereas this info has been reported publicly, a lot of that info is nonetheless protected below FERPA.”

Beatty, a faculty board member who voted to launch the report, instructed The Each day Sign, “I made a movement to launch a redacted model to guard names of scholars and defend as many as we may. The workers’s responses must get on the market.”

Mike Smith, an LCPS father, questioned the advantage of this determination in a public remark session at Tuesday’s college board assembly. “I perceive you wish to redact minors’ names, everybody is aware of that these items [name reduction requirements] occur,” he stated. “However what occurred outdoors the occasion? What occurred behind the scenes? What occurred behind the scenes is nearly scarier than the precise occasion. It’s simply going to perpetuate extra.”

LCPS instructed The Each day Sign in a broadcast assertion that the varsity board “cited quite a few the explanation why the report shouldn’t be launched publicly,” together with litigation considerations and attorney-client privileged communications “central to these issues.”

One LCPS mom chided the board for citing attorney-client privilege: “I’m very livid as a result of as soon as once more folks at this county on this college board are defending adults….They aren’t defending kids.”

Dad and mom leveled further sexual assault allegations at LCPS workers. One former LCPS mom, Tumay Harding, accused board members of “hiding behind Title IX” nondiscrimination regulation and brushing her off after Harding reported a science trainer who allegedly sexually assaulted and harassed her daughter and two of her daughter’s mates.

Harding implored, “I would like this trainer to not harm anyone once more.”

She requested the identical query 1000’s of fogeys round the USA have been asking within the wake of disturbing revelations stored from dad and mom and the general public: “As you heard at this time, two years prior, the identical allegations from a woman have been hidden from us. What else is being hidden from us?”

Harding has since pulled her daughter from the district. 

The accused trainer, Dr. Aaron Dobbs, seems as science college on the Stone Bridge Excessive College web site. He was placed on go away pending an investigation in March, in keeping with an LCPS letter despatched to Stone Bridge Excessive College Dad and mom. The total letter states:

To the Stone Bridge Neighborhood – 

This message is to tell you that Aaron Dobbs can be out on go away efficient at this time, Tuesday, March 29. It’s unclear presently the anticipated size of the go away.

As a result of it is a personnel matter, we can not share additional particulars presently. Nonetheless, we needed our households to concentrate on the state of affairs.

LCPS has not publicly said the outcomes of this investigation, however printed this assertion after the grand jury reported its findings in December: 

Regardless of the current allegations we’re happy that the Particular Grand Jury’s in depth investigation discovered no proof of prison conduct on the a part of anybody inside LCPS, and never a single indictment was filed because of this prolonged course of.

LCPS instructed The Each day Sign that Dr. Dobbs is at present on go away.

Combat for Faculties’ Government Director Ian Prior expressed disappointment in Loudoun County College Board Chairman Jeff Morse after he voted to not launch the unbiased report compiled by Blankingship and Keith. Prior even urged the Loudoun County Republican Committee to censure Morse.

“When Jeff Morse grew to become chairman in 2022, we had excessive hopes that he would restore some measure of transparency, accountability, and honesty to the Loudoun County College Board. As a substitute, he has been a whole and utter disappointment,” Prior stated in a press release despatched to The Each day Sign.

“Not solely did he return on his assertion from December that he would assist releasing the Blankingship and Keith report, he and former Superintendent Scott Ziegler each tried and didn’t quash a subpoena for his or her look earlier than the particular grand jury, regardless of beforehand pledging to completely cooperate,” Prior added.

“This shouldn’t be a partisan challenge,” he declared, noting that two Republican-endorsed candidates and one Democrat-endorsed candidate “make the suitable determination and must be applauded for voting to launch the report.”

“Alternatively, the 5 Democrats and one Republican that voted towards releasing it ought to face penalties,” Prior added. “We aren’t holding our breath for the Loudoun County Democrat Committee to carry their members accountable, however we do anticipate that the Loudoun County Republican Committee will censure Jeff Morse for his willful failure to serve the neighborhood’s pursuits as an alternative of his personal.”

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