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A Virginia college superintendent was fired Tuesday, a day after a report from the state accused him of mendacity a few sexual assault involving a scholar in Might 2021.
The particular grand jury report, performed by the workplace of Virginia Lawyer Basic Jason Miyares, additionally criticized former college superintendent Dr. Scott Ziegler and different college officers for mishandling the investigation of an October sexual assault allegedly by the identical scholar that 12 months.
The superintendent mentioned of the Might sexual assault “to my information we don’t have any data of assaults occurring in our restrooms,” at a June 2021 college board assembly, in response to the report. On the time, Ziegler mentioned he misunderstood the query.
The Loudoun County Public College Board voted unanimously to fireside Ziegler Tuesday evening, however offered no cause for the firing, college spokesman Wayde Byard advised CNN.
“The Particular Grand Jury’s report comprises vital suggestions and data,” Miyares mentioned in a press release to CNN Wednesday. “I’m glad to see that the varsity board is taking the report critically, and hope it ends in constructive change for the LCPS neighborhood.”
CNN has tried to achieve Ziegler for remark. Byard wouldn’t remark additional concerning allegations into LCPS mishandling of the sexual assault circumstances outlined within the particular grand jury report.
A teenage scholar had been arrested for sexual battery and abduction of one other scholar at a Loudoun County public college in October 2021, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned, in response to the report.
{The teenager} additionally allegedly sexually assaulted one other scholar in Might 2021, in response to the report. In that assault, the grand jury report alleged that the sexual assault occurred in a girls’s rest room whereas the perpetrator was carrying a skirt.
“Nationwide outrage targeted on Loudoun County as a result of the scholar was labeled as gender fluid, LCPS had just lately handed a transgender coverage to adapt with the Virginia Division of Schooling’s mannequin coverage,” mentioned the report.
CNN couldn’t discover proof substantiating that the scholar recognized as transgender or gender-fluid.
The 2021 Virginia Division of Schooling’s Mannequin Insurance policies for the Therapy of Transgender College students in Public Elementary and Secondary Faculties outlined that transgender college students ought to be allowed to make use of loos and workers ought to use the private pronouns that had been most in step with their gender identification.
In 2022, underneath Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, the Division of Schooling changed the coverage with an up to date one stating that college students ought to use loos in response to his or her intercourse.
On his first day in workplace on January 15, Youngkin handed an govt order authorizing an investigation of Loudoun County Public Faculties by the Lawyer Basic. Youngkin had talked about the sexual assault circumstances at Loudoun faculties a number of occasions while campaigning for governor.
“The particular grand jury’s report on the horrific sexual assaults in Loudoun has uncovered wrongdoing, prompted disciplinary actions, & offered households with the reality. I’ll proceed to empower dad and mom & push for accountability on behalf of our college students,” Youngkin tweeted Wednesday.
