What’s happening in Loudon County?
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To be fair to Buta, there were some other officials that pushed for him to not be on the list. The latest theory is that teens placed in the offender registry are more likely to re-offend. More Single Variant Fallacy.
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Youngkin pardons Virginia father who was arrested at 2021 school board meeting
Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Friday pardoned a Loudoun County father who was arrested at a school board meeting in 2021 while seeking answers about his daughter’s sexual assault on school property.
Scott Smith was charged with obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct for his behavior at the meeting, which took place shortly after his 15-year-old daughter was assaulted in her school’s bathroom in Ashburn, Virginia, according to the New York Times. Smith was convicted of both charges in 2021. Smith’s conviction for resisting arrest was later dismissed, and he eventually received a suspended sentence of 10 days in jail, according to CNN affiliate WJLA.
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@jon-nyc said in What’s happening in Loudon County?:
Much of it seems to be confusing her with the school officials too.
Probably because she confuses herself with the school board and officials too.
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There's some cool train pics at the end of the article for @George-K
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A jury of six women and one man on Friday found ex-Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler guilty of using his position to retaliate against a teacher for cooperating with a grand jury investigating how the district handled sexual assault.
After a four-day trial plus a day of deliberations, the jury found that Ziegler wrongfully fired a teacher who had disclosed to Virginia investigators about mishandling of sexual assault in her classroom. Ziegler was convicted of using his official position to retaliate against someone for exercising their rights, and acquitted of punishing someone for testifying to a jury, both misdemeanors.
Ziegler could face up to 12 months in jail, a $2,500 fine, or both. Sentencing in the trial will occur on January 4, 2024, Judge Douglas Fleming Jr. said. Ziegler’s victim, former special education teacher Erin Brooks, clasped her hands in front of her mouth in emotion after the verdict was read.
Prosecutors appointed by Attorney General Jason Miyares, a Republican, said that after they began investigating the school district’s coverup of a bathroom rape, they spoke with Brooks, who disclosed an unrelated instance of mishandling of sexual assault by school administrators. Brooks was then fired by Ziegler for cooperating with the special grand jury.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/10/05/loudoun-sexual-assault-stone-bridge/
A teenage girl who was sexually assaulted in a Virginia high school bathroom has sued Loudoun County Public Schools, alleging that school officials failed to heed warning signs about her attacker and responded to her May 2021 assault by trying to cover it up.
Fast, informative and written just for locals. Get The 7 DMV newsletter in your inbox every weekday morning.The teenager, who filed the lawsuit under the pseudonym “Jane Doe” along with her parents, was 15 years old when a younger, male student in a skirt assaulted her in a girls’ bathroom at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn on May 28, 2021.
The incident garnered national attention. Conservatives protested a policy in Loudoun County schools — put in place after the assault — that allowed transgender students to use bathrooms matching their gender identity. Meanwhile, outraged parents in Loudoun County questioned why the perpetrator was moved to a different school, where he assaulted a second female student months later.
The teen was convicted of both attacks. His mother and teachers denied claims on the right that he was “gender-fluid.” He remains in a juvenile mental health facility, according to the Stone Bridge victim’s lawsuit, filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Alexandria.
“It’s been a long, hard-fought battle, and we’re finally glad to be able to put this lawsuit forward and set a precedent that this should never happen to any child anywhere across the nation,” the teenager’s father, Scott Smith, told The Washington Post. He is not named in the suit but has made public appearances and statements in connection with the incident. “We’re putting it in God’s hands,” he said.
In the lawsuit, attorney Bill Stanley, a Republican state senator who has represented Smith’s family for more than a year, wrote that they are seeking at least $30 million in damages and alleged that school officials’ “failure to respond promptly and adequately to reports that Jane Doe was sexually assaulted by another LCPS student constituted sex discrimination, in violation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972.”
Loudoun schools delayed probe of high-profile sex assault for months
The girl “was admitted to the hospital for two weeks for physical, mental, and emotional trauma she suffered because of the sexual assault,” Stanley said in the lawsuit. She was bullied and harassed by other students after the incident, and a Loudoun County judge in January granted a two-year protective order forbidding contact from one student “who threatened her with death,” Stanley added.
AdvertisementThe lawsuit alleged, without providing details, that “the Loudoun County Public School system was previously aware that Jane Doe’s attacker had inappropriate sexual contact with another student a few years earlier on school grounds. Despite this knowledge, the LCPS system failed to protect Jane Doe (and others) from the harm she subsequently suffered.” Stanley did not respond to a request for comment Thursday.
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That’s her suit. We’re still waiting for the suit from the father.
