James Varney: Public Schools Have Adopted the Same Strategy With Repeat Pedophiles That the Catholic Church Did -- Just Ship 'em Off to a Different District

Weird how the leftwing Marxist media was so outraged that the Catholic Church simply moved child-molesting priests to different dioceses, but when their political allies the teachers unions take the exact same strategy of playing Hide the Pedophile, they take zero interest.

I don't think we'll be seeing any Oscar-winning movies about the brave Marxist media getting to the bottom of this pedophile ring.

To outward appearances, Michael Allen was a revered high school coach in the tiny community of Little Axe, Oklahoma -- a caring, charismatic leader who mentored star athletes on his girls' softball and boys' baseball teams.

All of that changed when Allen and fellow coaches showed up at a 2002 spring break trip by Little Axe High School students to South Padre Island, Texas, some 750 miles south.

Ashley Terrell, a 17-year-old senior, and a friend were coaxed to the coaches' hotel room where a party with alcohol led to Ashley blacking out. She woke up to find Allen in bed with her while her friend cried out for her from the bathroom, alleging she had been abused by another coach. Scared and confused, the girls fled the room.

Ashley quickly told her mother and school officials, including a school security officer she confused with a police officer. They assured her the matter would be handled. But Allen was never arrested or charged with any crime. He resigned quietly from Little Axe in 2002. In the years since, he has coached or taught at seven other Oklahoma high schools, according to state records, a development Ashley found appalling.

"I watched them pass the trash right in front of me," said the woman, now Ashley Rolen, 39, an Oklahoma City entrepreneur married to a pastor. She is working to publicize the problem of sexual misconduct, particularly among K-12 school employees. "My story is significant but not unique," she notes ruefully.

Rolen's case illustrates a shadowy and largely undocumented aspect of the national crisis involving the sexual abuse of K-12 students by teachers, administrators, coaches, bus drivers and other staff. Experts say the hundreds of school employees arrested each year and the more than $1.2 billion in related settlements paid out by school districts in just the last decade represent a mere fraction of the problem in a system that works to deny and hide the abuse of minors.

There is no national data for sexual misconduct involving K-12 school employees, according to the Department of Education.

Of course, why would there be. The feds collect national databases about rape but when it comes to their political allies the teachers unions raping children, they want to keep the matter unknown and hidden from the public.

There's an adage in the self-improvement field: What gets measured gets improved. Conversely: If you're not measuring, you're not improving.

In other words, you cannot hope to gain any improvement in a skill unless you regularly measure your progress in it. Otherwise, you'll just forget about it and stop trying.

That's why the feds don't measure the sexual abuse committed by their allies the teachers unions and their unofficially-tolerated pedophile rings: they don't want the situation improved. They don't want their dear civil servant brothers and sisters to have their precious careers damaged by "little slip-ups" of child molestation and even rape.

They want everyone to just forget about it like they forget about New Year's resolutions.

The most recent outside research estimates only 5% percent of K-12 sexual misconduct cases are turned over to law enforcement, and only a fraction of those result in prosecutions.

"Given what we already know, based on existing research, it is of epidemic proportions and is deliberately ignored by the powers that be," said Terri Miller, president of the advocacy group SESAME (Stop Educator Sexual Abuse Manipulation & Exploitation).

Victims of sexual misconduct by school predators may number in the millions, which would surpass the size of similar scandals in the Roman Catholic Church or the Boy Scouts, according to reports from academics and think tanks.

The Defense of Freedom Institute, a conservative advocacy nonprofit focused on education and workforce issues, concluded in a study last year that "the ease with which school officials can pass sex abusers to other districts" helps explain why complaints of sexual violence filed with the U.S. Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights more than tripled between 2010 and 2019. The U.S. had 49.5 million K-12 students in the last school year, according to federal figures.

News accounts as well as litigation surrounding K-12 sexual misconduct cases illustrate aspects of the problem Miller describes as "mobile molestors":

A January lawsuit against Clark County Nevada schools around Las Vegas alleges union contracts protected predators who would drift from one school to another, racking up new victims along the way.

* The Tahoma, Washington, school system settled a case last year in which it admitted it was "negligent in continuing to employ a former paraeducator after reports he was sexually abusing and grooming students."

* An Oregon case was settled for $3.5 million in March, the state's largest such settlement, after a judge ruled the plaintiff could proceed with a claim of "state created danger" because officials had failed to act.

* In Camden, New Jersey, Wasim Muhammad plans to resume duties this month as Camden School Advisory Board president two months after the district settled for $2 million a lawsuit from a woman who said Muhammad sexually abused her when he taught there decades ago.

* Also this month, a teacher hired by Stamford, Connecticut, schools was revealed to have previously been investigated for inappropriate behavior with students in New York City schools.

Such recent examples confirm a long-term and continuing trend. A 2010 report by the Government Accountability Office to a House Committee found that in a majority of cases it reviewed the predators should have been stopped earlier.

"At least 11 of these 15 cases involve offenders who previously targeted children," the report said. "Even more disturbing, in at least 6 cases, offenders used their new positions as school employees or volunteers to abuse more children."
Sidebar: A School Sex-Abuse Suspect Who Didn't Get Away

The problem and the cover-up are not limited to public schools. The prestigious Horace Mann School in New York City covered up rampant sexual abuse by staffers in the 1970s, before reaching private agreements with dozens of former students and apologizing in 2013. A Boston Globe "Spotlight" investigation found widespread sexual misconduct buried in the records of hundreds of elite New England private schools, including extensive failures to act promptly at St. George's School in Rhode Island.

Notice that the ultraliberal Marxist Boston Globe -- which had a heroic movie made about its investigation into pedophiles in the Catholic Church -- is willing to expose pedophile teachers at private schools.

But not at the bastions of their leftwing government-school teacher union allies.

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An offender may have scores of victims. The Government Accountability Office cited four reasons such predators are able to filter through the system, hurting students over many years in multiple locations:

* Resignations that allowed the school to consider the matter closed and then even recommend the departing employee to a new school.

* Failure to "perform preemployment criminal history checks."

* Checking applicants' fingerprints only against regional rather than national databases.

* And the simple failure to "inquire into troubling information regarding criminal histories."

These "oversights" are deliberate. When institutions serially "fail" to accomplish their stated mission, it's time to recognize that their stated mission is not their real mission.

Their real mission is to protect pedophiles -- and any other government-school union member.

"Passing the trash has created a pool of mobile molesters in our nation's schools," said Miller. "And we won't know about them until some brave person or bystander comes forward."

Multiple explanations have been given for the system's frequent failures to stop predators, ranging from bureaucratic inertia to contracts that protect teachers or administrators. Whatever the cause, Amos Guiora, law professor at the University of Utah, believes failing to address sexual misconduct at its source, and thus enabling predators to offend again, lies at the heart of the matter.

"All of these incidents would be preventable after the very first instance if the perpetrator were not protected," he said. "If they know they will or might be protected, the pattern will continue. Bad as the perpetrator is, without the enabler, he can't operate."

Read the whole thing at Real Clear Investigations.

Because the media is covering up for the pedophiles it allies with, James Varney shouldn't expect to have his life-rights bought up by Hollywood, unlike the Boston Globe editors and reporters.

Below, a related video from James Lindsey: when you see woke institutions "fail," they're not actually failing. They're actually accomplishing the goals they set out to accomplish.

It's just that their publicly-stated goals are not their real goals.

Their real goals are the destruction of civilization, so that communism can rise up as a solution (to the very problems deliberately caused by communist destroyers).

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:00 PM

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