Superintendent of Loudoun County School District Fired After Grand Jury Report Ripping Him For Downplaying Sexual Assaults Committed By Trans Student

A grand jury, ordered into existence by Governor Glenn Youngkin through his Attorney General Jason Miyarles, fails to indict anyone, but issues a scathing report about the Loudoun County school system, writing that it "failed at every juncture" in allowing the trans student to sexually assault two different girls, worrying more about woke politics than student safety.

The grand jury had harsh words for the administration, saying "[w]e believe that throughout this ordeal LCPS administrators were looking out for their own interests instead of the best interests of LCPS. This invariably led to a stunning lack of openness, transparency, and accountability both to the public and the special grand jury."

On the matter of transparency, "they failed at every juncture," the report continued.

They did, however, conclude that "there was not a coordinated cover-up" of the matter.

The report went on to assert that the second sexual assault could have been prevented. The school administrators, they continued, ignored warning signs about the student's conduct, including emails from faculty and the parents advising the schools pay close attention to the student.

The grand jury further highlighted the LCPS and most of the Loudoun County School Board (LCSB) for their unwillingness to cooperate with the investigation.

"We expected these public servants to provide clarity, transparency, and a willingness to report truthfully to their constituents," they wrote. "instead, we were met with obfuscation, deflection, and obvious legal strategies designed to frustrate the special grand jury's work."

The school board has now fired the superintendent Scott Ziegler, who was the lynchpin of the cover-up.

I know the grand jury claimed there was no "coordinated cover up."

A cover up of one man wouldn't be "coordinated," I imagine.

And Ziegler is the guy who hid all the information about the trans student's sexual assaults from everyone.

Fox News:

Loudoun County Superintendent Scott Ziegler was fired by the school board Tuesday night in response to a grand jury report on the district's handling of two sexual assaults committed by the same student.

The Northern Virginia district drew national attention last year after a father accused it at a school board meeting of covering up his daughter's sexual assault in which a biological boy wearing a skirt raped her in the girls' bathroom. The suspect then transferred to another school in the district and assaulted another girl, and faced charges in both cases.

The father alleged the district had attempted to cover up his daughter's assault to advance its transgender policy, which had been subject to parental protests at LCPS school board meetings.

The grand jury report released Monday said the district was looking out for its own interests instead of the best interests of its students and that the school system "failed at every juncture."

LCPS displayed a "stunning lack of openness, transparency and accountability, both to the public and to the special grand jury" about its response to the sexual assaults, according to the report, which also condemned Ziegler for denying at a June 2021 school board meeting that he had any knowledge of the first assault, which had occurred in May of that year. The second assault was committed in October 2021.

Ziegler had said at the board meeting that "the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist," and, to his knowledge, "we don't have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms."

But in an email dated May 28, the same day as the initial assault, the superintendent alerted school board members that an assault had been reported.

The grand jury's report explained that the district failed at several points to "step in and alter" the sequence of events that led to the second assault. It also said the grand jury did not find a "coordinated cover-up" between school officials and the school board but that the second assault "could have and should have been prevented."

"A remarkable lack of curiosity and adherence to operating in silos by LCPS administrators is ultimately to blame for the October 6 incident," the report stated, adding that LCPS "bears the brunt of the blame."

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