{"id":1772753,"date":"2022-12-12T16:03:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1772753"},"modified":"2022-12-12T16:03:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T21:03:33","slug":"grand-jury-indicts-loudoun-county-school-officials-over-sex-assault-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/grand-jury-indicts-loudoun-county-school-officials-over-sex-assault-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Jury Indicts Loudoun County School Officials Over Sex Assault Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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-indicts-loudoun-county-school-officials-over-sex-assault-cases%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=1772753&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 grand jury <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thesierrafox\/status\/1602361331541282816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">indicted<\/a> former Loudoun County, Va., Public Schools superintendent Scott Ziegler and former public information officer Wayde Byard following an investigation into the district&#8217;s handling of two sexual assault cases involving a student who reportedly identified as &#8220;gender-fluid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The grand jury charged Ziegler with false publication, prohibited conduct, and penalizing an employee for a court appearance and Byard with one count of felony perjury. The Loudoun County school board fired Ziegler last week after the jury found that &#8220;district administrators pursued their own interest instead of that of their students,&#8221;\u00a0<em>National Review<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/former-loudoun-county-superintendent-public-information-officer-indicted-over-handling-of-sexual-assault-cases\/?utm_source=email&#038;utm_medium=breaking&#038;utm_campaign=newstrack&#038;utm_term=29959334\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The teenage male perpetrator was reportedly wearing a skirt last year when he entered a women&#8217;s bathroom at Stone Bridge High School and raped a ninth-grade girl. The district then transferred the perpetrator to Broad Run High School where he sexually assaulted another girl.<\/p>\n<p>Ziegler knew about the rape weeks before he told the Loudoun County school board that the district had no &#8220;record of assaults occurring in our restrooms,&#8221; the Washington Free Beacon <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/virginia-school-superintendent-knew-of-bathroom-rape-before-he-publicly-denied-knowledge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>. The school board would go on to allow students to &#8220;use restrooms based on their gender identity rather than their biological sex.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The teenage perpetrator was found guilty in the first case and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/campus\/student-reaches-plea-deal-in-second-loudoun-county-sex-assault-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pleaded<\/a>\u00a0no contest to the second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A grand jury indicted former Loudoun County, Va., Public Schools superintendent Scott Ziegler and former public information officer Wayde Byard following an investigation into the district&#8217;s handling of two sexual assault cases involving a student who reportedly identified as &#8220;gender-fluid.&#8221;<br \/>\nThe post Grand Jury Indicts Loudoun County School Officials Over Sex Assault Cases appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":910054,"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":[544],"tags":[4767,4092,3662,5262,5268,5265,8198,3638,3924,7937],"class_list":["post-1772753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-assault","tag-beacon","tag-county","tag-grand","tag-indicts","tag-jury","tag-loudoun","tag-officials","tag-school","tag-sex"],"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\/1772753","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\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1772753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1772753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1772753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1772753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1772753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}