{"id":1848421,"date":"2023-02-15T12:35:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1848421"},"modified":"2023-02-15T12:35:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T17:35:46","slug":"virginias-embattled-loudoun-county-votes-against-release-of-sex-assault-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginias-embattled-loudoun-county-votes-against-release-of-sex-assault-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia&#8217;s Embattled Loudoun County Votes Against Release of Sex Assault Report"},"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\">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%2Fvirginias-embattled-loudoun-county-votes-against-release-of-sex-assault-report%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=1848421&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-->\n<p>Virginia&#8217;s embattled school board voted against publishing a potentially devastating internal report on student sexual assault cases. This was just months after the grand jury indicted school officials.<\/p>\n<p>Loudoun County School Board decided 6-3 to keep the report secretive from the public. Board members Jeff Morse (atoosa reaser), Erika Ogedegbe. Ian Serotkin. Brenda Sheridan. Harris Mahedavi opposed its release. Scott Ziegler, a disgraced ex-county superintendent, and Wayde Atard, a former public information officer, were among those who voted to keep the report from the public. <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/grand-jury-indicts-loudoun-county-school-officials-over-sex-assault-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indicted<\/a> In December, they were criticized for their handling of sexual assaults committed by a student. &#8220;gender-fluid.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is about justice, integrity, and service,&#8221; Tiffany Polifko, a board member who supported the release, informed her fellow members before casting a vote. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/education\/2023\/02\/14\/loudoun-sexual-assaults-internal-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to<\/a> The <em>Washington Post<\/em>. &#8220;You can&#8217;t have justice without truth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The cases of sex assault in Virginia sparked frustration and led to Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R.), who will be running for the November 2021 election on a platform to protect parents&#8217; rights in education, was elected to office. A special investigation led by Jason Miyares (R.), the Virginia attorney general, revealed that Ziegler had been fired. &#8220;administrators pursued their own interest instead of that of their students.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Three misdemeanors against Ziegler include false publication, prohibited conduct and penalizing an employee to appear in court. Perjury is a felony charge against Byard. Loudoun Schools released an email in October 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/latest-news\/virginia-school-superintendent-knew-of-bathroom-rape-before-he-publicly-denied-knowledge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed<\/a> Ziegler was informed about the rape that occurred in a high-school bathroom even though there had not been any reports of sexual assaults weeks prior.<\/p>\n<p>Six members opposed to the release of the report cited privacy concerns for students and faculty. One member argued that Ziegler&#8217;s resignation prevented the release of the report. Only Polifko and John Beatty, who were board members with him, demanded that it be made public.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Smith, a Loudoun County father, whose daughter was the victim in the sexual assaults of his daughters, lambasted members of the board after Tuesday&#8217;s vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can you send a child to school tomorrow with this school board in charge of your child&#8217;s safety?&#8221; He said: <a href=\"https:\/\/wjla.com\/news\/instagram\/loudoun-county-schools-sex-sexual-assault-scott-smith-school-board-virginia-nova-father-lcps-victim-slams-education-vote-against-release-report-tiffany-polifko-john-beatty-jeff-morse-atoosa-reaser-erika-ogedegbe-dmv-board-supervisors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to<\/a> WJLA. &#8220;How can you do that? How can a parent with any intelligence send your child to school tomorrow? Mine won&#8217;t be in school tomorrow. Absolutely not.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An embattled Virginia school board voted against releasing a potentially damning internal report on two student sexual assault cases, just months after a grand jury indicted school officials over the incidents.<br \/>\nThe post Virginia&#8217;s Embattled Loudoun County Votes Against Release of Sex Assault Report appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"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":[4767,3662,3908,8198,3684,3819,7937,15239,4030],"class_list":["post-1848421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon","tag-assault","tag-county","tag-embattled","tag-loudoun","tag-release","tag-report","tag-sex","tag-virginias","tag-votes"],"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\/1848421","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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848421\/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=1848421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}