A unique grand jury has now assembled to figure out whether criminal charges must be brought against authorities in Loudoun County, Virginia, who stand implicated in a cover-up of numerous sexual assaults committed against female students by a biologically male transgender schoolmate in 2021.
The development of the grand jury, which is a routine pretrial procedure, was first reported by Loudoun Now reporter Hayley Milon Bour on Wednesday.
Multiple sources have confirmed that a special grand jury has been convened re: the investigation into the Loudoun County School Board's handling of multiple sexual assaults in LCPS high schools #loudoun #lcps
— Hayley Milon Bour (@HayleyMilon) April 13, 2022
Outrage over the district’s supposed cover-up of the attacks drew nationwide headings in 2015 after the dad of the very first victim was apprehended throughout a raucous school board conference where moms and dads had actually collected to oppose vital race theory and transgender-affirming policies pressed by the district.
Following his arrest, the dad, Scott Smith, chose to speak up more openly and supplied information about the occurrence in an interview with the Daily Wire. SSmith stated that his 15-year-old child was assaulted in the females’s washroom of Stone Bridge High School by a kid in a skirt in the middle of the district’s embrace of preferred gender bathroom use.
The boy in question was later found guilty on one felony count of forcible sodomy and one felony count of forcible fellatio for his attack on Smith’s child. According to Smith, the district initially chose to deal with things “in-house” and silently moved the kid to another school in the county so as to prevent unfavorable press.
Unfortunately, while at the other school, Broad Run High, the student assaulted yet another female schoolmate and was convicted on one felony count of kidnapping and a misdemeanor count of sexual battery.
Since the very start, oobservers have actually implicated Loudoun County Public Schools of being deliberately deceiving about the event. In January, the progressive school board stimulated additional reaction when revealing it would not release a taxpayer-funded report documenting the occurrences in order to safeguard the personal privacy of the households included.
In January, Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin– who was chosen to workplace late last year riding a wave of hostility versus progressive school boards— issued an executive order starting an examination into Loudoun County authorities over their handling of the sexual attack occurrences.
In reaction to the latest news of a grand jury convening, the school district put out a statement insisting “it intends to cooperate with the lawful requests of the special grand jury, while protecting the privacy rights of our students to the extent permitted by law and in accordance with all applicable legal privileges.”
following the news, @lcps just released the following statement: pic.twitter.com/NObIKViRbT
— Hayley Milon Bour (@HayleyMilon) April 13, 2022
The district defensively added that in response to the occurrences, it has actually taken “several steps to help protect our students from such incidents happening in the future. LCPS has expanded the size and scope of our Title IX office by hiring a full-time Title IX Coordinator and additional investigative staff, expanded our Office of Division Counsel to better assist staff with issues relating to legal compliance.”
H/T The Blaze