{"id":1763712,"date":"2022-12-05T16:47:32","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763712"},"modified":"2022-12-05T16:47:46","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T21:47:46","slug":"grand-jury-legal-counsel-for-loudoun-county-school-board-engaged-in-witness-tampering-during-sexual-assault-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grand-jury-legal-counsel-for-loudoun-county-school-board-engaged-in-witness-tampering-during-sexual-assault-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Jury: Legal Counsel For Loudoun County School Board Engaged In Witness Tampering During Sexual Assault Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgrand-jury-legal-counsel-for-loudoun-county-school-board-engaged-in-witness-tampering-during-sexual-assault-investigation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1763712&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A special grand jury in Loudoun County, Virginia, found that a legal representative for the locality\u2019s school board allegedly engaged in witness tampering during an investigation into the board and school administrators\u2019 handling of a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/10\/13\/loudoun-county-dad-smeared-as-domestic-terrorist-says-school-covered-up-daughters-rape-by-boy-in-girls-bathroom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">purported sexual assault<\/a> of a female student at the hands of a \u201cgender fluid\u201d boy in a high school bathroom last year.<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudoun.gov\/specialgrandjury\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">report<\/a> released Wednesday, the grand jury revealed that the division counsel for the Loudoun County School Board (LCSB) was \u201cobstructionist\u201d throughout the \u201cwitness testimony\u201d portion of the investigation, often cutting off the board members he represented whenever \u201che felt certain information was about to be revealed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLCSB\u2019s counsel consistently and repeatedly objected to questions that would elicit information about a meeting or conversation that occurred when [he] was present \u2014 regardless of whether that meeting or conversation had anything to do with soliciting legal advice, or if division counsel was even a party to the meeting or conversation,\u201d the report reads.<\/p>\n<p>The jury also noted that LCSB\u2019s counsel routinely \u201cobjected to certain questions even though he had allowed previous witnesses to answer[] the exact same question\u201d and utilized \u201chand signals and other methods\u201d to exchange information with witnesses as they testified.<\/p>\n<p>But the interference by the school\u2019s board legal representative didn\u2019t stop there. After the grand jury received a May 2021 email from the Loudoun County Public Schools chief operating officer regarding the purported sexual assault and a policy known as 8040, the LCSB legal rep soon became aware of its existence and alerted the board members. While testifying before the grand jury, several LCSB members proceeded to deliver the \u201cexact same story\u201d regarding the incident and policy in question.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly believe these stories coming from the board members is an effort by division counsel to get everybody on the same page to thwart, discredit, and push back against this investigation and this report, and to promote their own narrative,\u201d the report reads. \u201cUnlike federal law, no Virginia statute explicitly addresses witness tampering, and the Virginia obstruction of justice statute does not cover this fact pattern. For those reasons, we were unable to consider an indictment against the [Loudoun County Public Schools] LCPS division counsel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While the grand jury asserts there was not a \u201ccoordinated cover-up [of the sexual assault] between LCPS administrators and members of the LCSB,\u201d Loudoun Superintendent Scott Ziegler lied to the public at a school board meeting in June 2021 when he claimed that he had no knowledge of any sexual assaults occurring in school bathrooms, despite an email from the day of the assault showing otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout their investigation, the grand jury also found numerous incidents of maladministration and incompetence among LCPS school officials in dealing with the purported assault. A special education teaching assistant, for instance, walked into the bathroom while the May 28, 2021, assault was occurring but failed to report it to school administrators, even after noticing two pairs of feet in one of the stalls.<\/p>\n<p>The assistant later testified that such<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A legal rep for the Loudoun County School Board engaged in witness tampering during an investigation into an alleged sexual assault.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":539,"featured_media":1763715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1763712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/539"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1763712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1763712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1763715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1763712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1763712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1763712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}