Students at multiple schools in Loudoun County, Virginia staged a walkout on Tuesday in protest of the district’s cover-up of a sexual assault case.
“Loudoun County protects rapists,” some students at Broad Run High chanted in front of the school.
Listen to Broad Run High students start chanting “Loudon County protects rapists” & shouting other messages. Clarification: The suspect in both sex assaults at 2 different high schools in Loudoun County was not charged or convicted of rape. @7NewsDC #7NewsITeam pic.twitter.com/VnoPAvl8jO
— Scott Taylor 7 News I-Team (@ScottTaylorTV) October 26, 2021
Social media posts reportedly framed the protest as a way to “show solidarity to victims of sexual violence and demand safety in our schools.” The protest follows months of controversy after members of the Loudoun County School Board and the superintendent publicly denied that there had been any sexual assault by transgender-identifying students in school bathrooms in the district, even though multiple assaults by the same “gender fluid” assailant were reported in two different Loudoun County high schools.
Here are scenes of more student walkouts at @LCPSOfficial in Loudon County. @7NewsDC ##7NewsITeam #Loudoun https://t.co/cki8Xo52X1
— Scott Taylor 7 News I-Team (@ScottTaylorTV) October 26, 2021
One of the assaults occurred in May against a teenage girl whose father, Scott Smith, was smeared as a “domestic terrorist” after he spoke up and was arrested at a school board meeting. At that same meeting, school board members claimed there was no “record of assaults occurring in our restrooms.”
“Our students do not need to be protected, and they are not in danger. Do we have assaults in our bathrooms or locker rooms regularly?” said school board member Beth Barts.
“To my knowledge, we don’t have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms,” Superintendent Scott Ziegler replied.
The board chairwoman Brenda Sheridan also asked if the district had “any issues involving transgender students in our bathrooms or locker rooms,” before Ziegler claimed that the predatory trans-identifying person doesn’t exist.
A Virginia judge found the teenage male, who was allegedly wearing a skirt when he entered a girls’ bathroom at Stone Bridge High School in May and was then involved in a similar incident at Broad Run High School in early October, guilty of sexual assault on Monday.
Other reports indicate that Loudoun County Public Schools failed to report multiple alleged sexual assaults in its district for years. One LCPS board member, Barts, stepped down from the board after the controversy gained conservative media attention. Others are currently the subjects of recall efforts.
Reminder: the Loudoun County superintendent who tried to cover up the rape, said they had no record of it, and said the predator "doesn't exist" has said he isn't stepping down. https://t.co/EXWnsl1IWl
— Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) October 26, 2021
via thefederalist
To the School Board Members and the Staff at Loudoun County, take note , you should walk out and keep going, until you are out of the State.
Step down? Recall?
They should be held criminally libel for out right lying about the incidents!
There is no way they didn’t know about these incidents! And if they didn’t know then they were turning a blind eye to the allegations!
Either way they put the students in harms way needlessly!
ALL school board members should have kids in school to be eligible to sit on school boards! If they don’t then they have no “skin in the game” as it were!
Good thing it wasn’t my daughter that got assaulted!
All Loudon School Board members must be part of the CHEATER Criminal Democrat Party Mob crime empire for they broke ou/r laws and did not get their “criminal asses thrown in jail”!!!! Stop paying your school taxes and cut off their tax money since we are paying them to commit these crimes!!! That will get their attention quickly!!!!!