Here’s an important thread from The Daily Wire’s investigative reporter, Luke Rosiak. Rosiak does some great work, and here he’s turning our attention back to the Loudoun County School District and the rape of a girl in a school restroom in May that finally made the leap from silence to the local news to the Washington Post in October.
BREAKING: Juvenile court judge finds sufficient evidence that teen sexually assaulted fellow student in Loudoun County high school bathroom in May. The case is at the heart of a political firestorm in Va. 2nd case against teen still pending. Back story: https://t.co/fuHyQcA3se
— justin jouvenal (@jjouvenal) October 25, 2021
Yes, this is the one about the boy wearing a skirt in the girls’ bathroom. It’s also the case where the girl’s father had an outburst at the school board meeting, making him the first exhibit among those “domestic terrorists” threatening school administrators. It’s also the case that Barack Obama, which campaigning for Terry McAuliffe, called phony: “We don’t have time to be wasted on these phony trumped-up culture wars, this fake outrage, the right-wing media’s pedals to juice their ratings,” he said at a campaign rally.
Anyway, here’s Rosiak on the grand jury’s findings:
Loudoun's schools had a “stunning lack” of transparency around the bathroom rape & “intentional amnesia” when testifying about it, a grand jury said today, adding that it might've indicted LCPS' lawyer for witness tampering if such a law existed in VA.https://t.co/Ibg5J7QnN5
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
Days before the rape, a teacher's aide wrote to the department chair that he “has come into class more than once with his arm around a girl’s neck. I have caught him sitting on other girls’ laps several times … I wouldn’t want to be held accountable if someone should get hurt.”
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
But school officials seemed to accuse the teacher's aide of transphobia against the skirt-wearing boy. Her boss "questioned [her] true motivation" and an assistant principal “questioned whether the author of the email had followed proper protocol.” Days later, he raped.
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
During the rape itself, another teacher's aide walked in to the bathroom and saw that two students were in a stall together, but did nothing. According to the report, the girl was lying on the bathroom floor while the skirt-wearing boy stood over her. pic.twitter.com/YwtjHfwSaN
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
As previously reported, the victim's father came to the school and they called the police on HIM and offered counseling to any students who had to watch the police, and sent an email to parents saying the only threat on campus that day was an angry father. What we didn't know:
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
The email (attributed to the principal) was written by LCPS' press secretary and edited by the superintendent. And THE RAPIST WAS ON THE LOOSE THE WHOLE TIME, for hours. They discussed a restraining order against victim's dad when the rapist was literally “missing and at-large.”
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
The chief operating officer arrived at the scene and immediately wrote that “The incident at SBHS is related to Policy 8040,” which is the policy that the superintendent and school board were attempting to pass dealing with transgender student bathroom use.
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
A month later the victim's dad was arrested at the school board meeting where 8040 was being debated, enraged after the superintendent said there had *never been any bathroom assaults.* He later claimed he thought the question meant "related to 8040"-but that would still be a lie
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
Again, that’s when he became the poster boy for parents as “domestic terrorists” threatening school board members.
LCPS never disciplined the rapist. A judge ordered him not to return to the same school or use computers. Prosecutor Buta Biberaj, who was seeking jail time against the victim's father for a misdemeanor, never told the school, and it didn't transfer him until the new year started
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
Within his first weeks at the new school year, it caught the student (then wearing an ankle bracelet for rape charges) committing multiple incidents of sexually depraved or offensive behavior, which the superintendent knew about. They just had him write this: pic.twitter.com/oeVabtOn8U
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
“The suspect was known to authorities,” as they always say with the FBI.
Days later he “snatched an unassuming female out of the hallway, abducted her into an empty classroom, nearly asphyxiated her, and sexually assaulted her." That victim told a cop instead of principal & appears to have THOUGHT THE PRINCIPAL WOULD LECTURE HER FOR NOT WEARING A MASK
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
The report found that Superintendent' Ziegler's misrepresentations and concealment were so extensive that even the school board did not know about it until I broke the story. The communications director ordered staff to ignore my inquiry, the grand jury found. pic.twitter.com/0IMmQRiIbs
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
“We were met with obfuscation [and] legal strategies designed to frustrate the special grand jury’s work,” the jury said. Everyone was pushed to use the school district's lawyer, who tried to stop them from saying anything. When one teacher refused, he claimed to rep her anyway. pic.twitter.com/90TSoJQfpR
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
School board members "parroted" a line to the grand jury-seemingly coordinated by the lawyer-that sought to justify the super's lie by making a false claim about the victim's dad, it said. What they didn't know is that 1 official who DIDN'T use that lawyer had told them the truth
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
There's much more in the story. It's behind a paywall, but as the 91-page grand jury report says, no one–even school board members–would know about this if it weren't for @realDailyWire. If that kind of thing is important to you, consider subscribing. https://t.co/Ibg5J88x1d
— Luke Rosiak (@lukerosiak) December 6, 2022
The school’s handling of the incident was “worse than known” … and we knew quite a bit … eventually, after the school’s attempt to cover it up was blown.
Oh, and if you don’t think boys should be allowed in girls’ restrooms at school, you’re still a bigot.
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Related:
Dana Loesch SKEWERS Obama for saying rape of a freshman girl in LCPS bathroom was ‘trumped up fake outrage’ while stumping for McAuliffe https://t.co/lnJW5Teg3H
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) October 25, 2021
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