An internal report, released Thursday by a judge, found major lapses in a case that drew national attention.
An internal report by Loudoun County Public Schools found that administrators delayed for months investigating the first of two high-profile sex assaults in schools in 2021, should have performed a threat assessment on the perpetrator and may be doing too little to investigate other cases of sexual assault and harassment.
The finding is significant because the case became enmeshed in the debate locally and nationally over what bathrooms transgender students should use, since the first assault occurred in a girl’s restroom while the perpetrator was wearing a skirt.One of the victim’s fathers, Scott Thomas Smith, suggested his daughter’s attacker was gender fluid and cited the assault to question a Loudoun policy allowing transgender students to use the bathroom that matched their identity.
Loudoun Circuit Court Judge James E. Plowman agreed with Miyares Thursday and ordered the release of a version that redacts sensitive student information.as part of the state’s criminal case against former Loudoun superintendent Scott Ziegler over his response to the sexual assaults. The report concluded that federal law requires school officials to promptly investigate reports of sexual assaults in schools, but that, instead of doing so after the assault at Stone Bridge, officials were paralyzed by debate about how to classify the incident. It said they improperly ceded the investigation to the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office.“It does not appear that LCPS considered whether it should commence a Title IX investigation for almost three months when, on Aug.
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