Grand jury has convened in Loudoun County trans student rape case to determine if school officials should face charges



A special grand jury has convened to determine whether criminal charges should be brought against officials in Loudoun County, Virginia, who stand accused of covering up multiple sexual assaults committed against female students by a biological male transgender classmate last year.

The formation of the grand jury, which is a regular pretrial process, was first reported by Loudoun Now journalist Hayley Milon Bour on Wednesday.

Multiple sources have confirmed that a special grand jury has been convened re: the investigation into the Loudoun County School Board's handling of multiple sexual assaults in LCPS high schools #loudoun #lcps
— Hayley Milon Bour (@Hayley Milon Bour) 1649812304

Outrage over the district's alleged cover-up of the assaults drew national headlines last year after the father of the first victim was arrested during a raucous school board meeting where parents had gathered to protest critical race theory and transgender-affirming policies pushed by the district.

Following his arrest, the father, Scott Smith, decided to speak out more publicly and provided detail about the incident in an interview with the Daily Wire. Smith said that his 15-year-old daughter was attacked in the women's restroom of Stone Bridge High School by a boy in a skirt amid the district's embrace of preferred gender bathroom use.

The boy in question was later found guilty on one felony count of forcible sodomy and one felony count of forcible fellatio for his assault against Smith's daughter. Yet, according to Smith, the district originally decided to handle things "in-house" and quietly transferred the boy to another school in the county so as to avoid negative press.

Tragically, while at the other school, Broad Run High, the student assaulted another female classmate and was found guilty on one felony count of abduction and a misdemeanor count of sexual battery.

Since the very start, onlookers have accused Loudoun County Public Schools of being intentionally misleading about the incident. In January, the progressive school board sparked further backlash when announcing it would not release a taxpayer-funded report documenting the incidents in order to protect the privacy of the families involved.

Then in January, Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin — who was elected to office late last year riding a wave of hostility against progressive school boards — issued an executive order initiating an investigation into Loudoun County officials over their handling of the sexual assault incidents.

In response to the latest new of a grand jury's convening, the district put out a statement insisting "it intends to cooperate with the lawful requests of the special grand jury, while protecting the privacy rights of our students to the extent permitted by law and in accordance with all applicable legal privileges."

following the news, @lcps just released the following statement:pic.twitter.com/NObIKViRbT
— Hayley Milon Bour (@Hayley Milon Bour) 1649861702

The district added that in response to the incidents, it has taken "several steps to help protect our students from such incidents happening in the future. LCPS has expanded the size and scope of our Title IX office by hiring a full-time Title IX Coordinator and additional investigative staff, [and] expanded our Office of Division Counsel to better assist staff with issues relating to legal compliance."

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'INSANE' email sent to all Loudoun County school principals shows what they REALLY think of parents



Loudoun County Public Schools are in hot water again. Remember, this is the school district that brutalized, arrested, and then smeared as a "domestic terrorist" the father of one of two girls who were sexually assaulted by a "boy in a skirt."

Then, in what might be an attempt to distract people from its abysmal handling of a known rapist in the schools, the school district went full draconian overlord on "mask enforcement," bucking Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin's (R) executive order empowering parents to decide whether their children wear face masks in schools.

Recently, Loudoun County Public Schools sent out an email to all principals, according to Twitter user Ned Ryan, and it looks like they don't take kindly to those pesky parents who think they have rights in public schools. Here are a few of the email's friendly reminders:

  • Parents should only be admitted at [staff] discretion.
  • While parents have certain educational rights, they do NOT have the right to enter your school without proper vetting and permission.
  • For parents picking up kids, consider keeping them outside and bring their child to them.
  • For non-compliant peaceful parents or students, SRO's and Safety and Security will support school admin with a visible deterrent ....

This was sent out by \u2066@LCPSOfficial\u2069 to all Principals in Loudoun County this afternoon. And these people think they\u2019re on the right side of science and history. . .pic.twitter.com/8jnUR01eWq
— Ned Ryun (@Ned Ryun) 1644199813

Parents and fellow Twitter users were not too happy:

Stay Safe, fellow Totalitarians!
— Zachary Preferred Pronouns (He, His Majesty) (@Zachary Preferred Pronouns (He, His Majesty)) 1644235542


This is insane! And John Clark is an arrogant, condescending, piece of work. LCPS response to parents has been miserable since he came on board.
— Debbie (@Debbie) 1644208423


https://twitter.com/lcpsdobetter/status/1490403107846725633\u00a0\u2026
— \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8Neanderthal Steve I am\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8Neanderthal Steve I am\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1644231616


So we pay school taxes for our schools to act like dictators. These are our kids that we pay them to teach. These teachers screamed police reform when we need teacher reform. Stat!
— \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8PhishieFromPhilly\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8PhishieFromPhilly\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8) 1644240912
SHE HAD THE RECEIPTS: Last year the Prince William County School Superintendent claimed \u201cher hands were tied\u201d by then-governor Northam's mask mandate for students...\n\nWATCH Virginia mom Merianne Jensen call out the hypocrisypic.twitter.com/BzkyumkRbo
— The Daily Signal (@The Daily Signal) 1643915639

Teen who sexually assaulted girl at Loudoun HS bathroom won't have to register as a sex offender after judge reconsiders



The teenager who sexually assaulted a girl in a high school bathroom in Loudoun County, Virginia won't have to register as a sex offender after a judge reconsidered the sentence.

The unnamed 15-year-old had been sentenced earlier in January to supervised probation in a residential treatment facility until he turned 18 years old. He was also sentenced to register as a sex offender.

On Thursday, Judge Pamela Brooks said she made a mistake and lessened the sentence.

The 15-year-old was convicted of two acts of sodomy and was at the center of a national uproar after the father of one of the victims was cited in support of federal law enforcement focus on parents protesting against school boards nationwide.

Jason Bickmore, the probation officer for the teenager, argued that forcing him to register as a sex offender would be counterproductive to rehabilitating him of his criminal conduct. He said that studies showed teenage sex offenders who registered were more likely to re-offend.

Loudoun County Community Attorney Buta Biberaj argued that the case merited the unusual request because the teenager had committed a second act of forcible sodomy at a different school while he was on electronic monitoring for the first offense of sodomy. Biberaj requested that the teen be made to register as a sex offender until he reached the age of 30 years, but the judge refused.

Among the three attorneys representing the teenager was Caleb Kershner, a member of Loudoun County’s Board of Supervisors.

Kershner argued that the teen had been “cheated” by the “failure of the system," but said that he was remorseful.

“We are setting him up for failure,” Kershner claimed. “We’ve never concentrated on [the boy] — we’re not even giving this young man a chance.”

Judge Brooks said that she had simply made a mistake in her prior ruling.

“This court made an error in my initial ruling," said Brooks. "The court is not vain enough to think it’s perfect, but I want to get it right.”

Here's more about the controversial Loudoun case:

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Loudoun County schools chief of staff no longer has job after handling of sexual assault cases



The chief of staff for Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia no longer has a job following accusations that the school district violated Title IX by failing to conduct a timely investigation of multiple sexual assaults.

LCPS told Fox News in a statement Wednesday that the chief of staff position once held by Mark Smith is now "vacant." It is not immediately clear why Smith, who was also the school district's Title IX coordinator, is no longer in the position, whether he resigned or was fired.

An unnamed school board member told WJLA-TV that Smith "is gone" because he failed to meet certain "obligations" under Title IX, a federal statute that bans discrimination based on sex.

"He had obligations under Title IX and they weren’t met. He was not a Title IX expert, but it was his job,” the school board member reportedly said. "Someone had to pay and it was him."

The school board member said LCPS is looking to hire someone with Title IX experience following two sexual assaults at two different schools in Loudoun County. @7NewsDc
— Nick Minock (@Nick Minock) 1642607139

The school district is being tight-lipped about the situation. WJLA reporter Scott Taylor said that LCPS Public Information Officer Wayde Byard hung up the phone on him twice while he was trying to confirm Smith's departure.

Earlier today I was hung up on twice by Wayde Byard, Public Information Officer at Loudoun County Public Schools. Byard refused to say who is the District\u2019s current Chief of Staff. Last week it was Mark Smith. Byard said no comment if Smith is still employed. @7NewsDCpic.twitter.com/HjWkYIUb9e
— Scott Taylor 7 News I-Team (@Scott Taylor 7 News I-Team) 1642607587

Fox News reported that a LCPS web page previously listing Smith as the chief of staff was removed Wednesday.

WJLA reported that the school district is seeking to hire someone with Title IX experience.

The alleged Title IX violations are related to two sexual assaults of students at LCPS schools that were first reported by the Daily Wire and later confirmed by the Loudoun County Sheriff's Department.

The first assault took place in a bathroom at Stone Bridge High School on May 18, 2021. Police arrested a 14-year-old male suspect on charges of one felony count of forcible sodomy and one felony count of forcible fellatio after an investigation. The same suspect was later charged with crimes related to a second assault at Broad Run High School on Oct. 6.

Last week the suspect, now 15, was found responsible for the crimes and sentenced to a juvenile treatment facility. The court required him to register as a sex offender for life.

The school district did not disclose the sexual assaults to the public before the Daily Wire revealed what happened in its report. At a school board meeting one month after the first incident, Superintendent Scott Ziegler publicly denied that there was any record of sexual assaults taking place in school bathrooms at a contentious school board meeting where he spoke in favor of a policy that would let transgender students use the bathroom of their preference.

Outraged parents accused LCPS of covering up the sexual assaults in schools. Ziegler later apologized and claimed that federal Title IX rules prevented the schools from conducting their own investigation into the incident until police had finished their investigation.

According to the Daily Wire, this claim was contested by the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, which has said, "Although a school division may need to delay temporarily the fact-finding portion of a Title IX investigation while the police are gathering evidence, once notified that the police department has completed its gathering of evidence (not the ultimate outcome of the investigation or the filing of any charges), the school division must promptly resume and complete its fact-finding for the Title IX investigation." Federal law also requires that a school is "obligated to conclude a grievance process within a reasonably prompt time frame."

Ian Prior, executive director of the parents' advocacy group Fight for Schools, said in a press release that Smith's departure shows LCPS violated Title IX in its handling of the sexual assault.

“We have been saying for months that Loudoun County Public Schools violated Title IX and this report confirms that,” Prior said Wednesday. "While it is a positive development to see that LCPS is taking action, the fact remains that the buck stopped with Superintendent Scott Ziegler and the former leadership of the school board.”

“Ziegler remaining while his subordinates take the fall only further diminishes the trust in LCPS leadership, particularly when there is a publicly funded 'independent' report on the failures of LCPS that Ziegler refuses to release to the public,” he added.

On Tuesday, an independent report on how LCPS handled the sexual assault cases was completed, but officials said the report will not be released to the public.

Byard told WJLA that Virginia law and attorney-client privilege prevent the school district from releasing that information.

"The report is complete. It is being withheld from disclosure in its entirety under Va. Code 2.2-3705.1(2) relating to materials protected under the attorney-client privilege. Furthermore, portions of the record are being withheld from disclosure under. Code 2.2-3705.4(A)(1) relating to scholastic information and Va. Code 2.2-3705.1(1) relating to personnel information concerning identifiable individuals," he said in an email to WJLA.

"Of course, they are not going to release what happened," Scott Smith, the father of the teenage girl who was assaulted at Stone Bridge High School last May, said.

"What happened is horrific," he told WJLA. "There are so many high-up players involved in this cover-up. It’s just unbelievable."

'Active cover-up': Victim's parents rage after Loudoun County won't release report on 'boy in a skirt' sexual assault



The parents of a ninth-grade girl who was sexually assaulted in a women's bathroom by a gender-fluid "boy in a skirt" classmate in Loudoun County last year are outraged after the county's progressive school board decided not to publicly release a report on the incident and others that were similar.

What are the details?

In a statement issued Friday, the girl's parents, Scott and Jessica Smith, slammed the school district, claiming that board members were continuing to skirt responsibility for horrific incidents that took place at Loudoun County schools last year amid the district's move to open up bathrooms for transgender students.

The father, Scott Brown, was arrested during a raucous school board meeting in June 2021 while raising awareness about the incident involving his daughter. He would later go public, accusing the district of intentionally burying details about sexual assault incidents.

"We believe that once again LCPS continues to engage in an active cover-up, and are attempting to avoid being accountable to the victims and their families," Friday's statement read.

"The question must be asked — how can an outside independent investigation, funded by the taxpayers, not be released and is instead kept secret from the public?" it continued. "While the school system's law firm continues to hide the truth, our lawyers will reveal the truth during the course of our Title IX lawsuit against Loudoun County.”

The family of the young girl that was sexually assaulted in a #loudouncounty bathroom has posted a statement and they are rightfully not happy that @LCPSOfficial will not release the report of its independent investigation into a clear cover up. #releasethereportpic.twitter.com/UyUz8GRQHD
— Ian Prior (@Ian Prior) 1642208704

The parents' fury came in response to a school board press release on Friday, in which the board stated it would not release a taxpayer-funded report documenting the incidents in order to protect the privacy of the families involved.

"First and foremost, the report cannot be released because the privacy of the families involved must be protected," the board said. "The national interest in this investigation would preclude any chance of allowing the families to heal in private and to move forward with dignity. The Division and our Board believe we must do whatever we can to avoid retraumatizing the students and the families involved in the incidents."

What's the background?

Smith claims that last year when he was informed of the sexual assault against his daughter, administration officials at her high school told him they would handle the incident "in-house." But nothing substantial followed. Then later, in October, the gender-fluid boy was accused of assaulting another female classmate.

At the time, LCPS was pushing a policy that would allow students to use a bathroom that aligns with their gender identity rather than their biological sex.

Last week, the 15-year-old "boy in a skirt" who committed the sexual assaults was ordered by a judge to undergo psychological treatment at a juvenile detention center. The judge presiding over the case also took an action that she has never taken before: She ordered the juvenile to register as a sex offender for life.

According to WTOP-TV, the teen was found guilty of one felony count of forcible sodomy and one felony count of forcible fellatio in a May 28 incident at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn. That incident is reportedly the one involving the Smiths' daughter. He was also found guilty on one felony count of abduction and one misdemeanor count of sexual battery in a separate assault involving a second victim at Broad Run High School on Oct. 6

During his sentencing, the judge said she decided to make the teen register as a sex offender after viewing frightening results from a court-ordered psychological evaluation.

"Yours scares me," the judge said. "What I read scares me for yourself, your family, and society in general. Young man, you need a lot of help.”

Anything else?

When Smith spoke out about his daughter's assault last year, the controversy became a national story. But the LCPS board has denied that it was aware of the sexual assault allegations. However, many — including the Smiths — think the board has covered up its involvement in an effort to avoid a national media firestorm.

Barring the public release of the report, any information incriminating LCPS board members will likely remain hidden.

In one of his first actions after taking office this week, Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin instructed his attorney general to investigate the school district's response to the two sexual assaults.

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares said in a statement that “Loudoun County Public Schools covered up a sexual assault on school grounds for political gain, leading to an additional assault of a young girl."

“What we’re going to be looking into is the entire circumstances around the decisions that were made to actually move this young man from one school to another, to not inform parents, to not inform the community and oh, by the way, clearly to put other students in risk for their safety,” Youngkin reportedly added in an interview with Fox News on Sunday.

'Boy in skirt' who assaulted girls in Loudoun County schools avoids jail after victim's family asked judge to get him help



The 15-year-old "boy in a skirt" who sexually assaulted two classmates in different Loudoun County, Virginia, high schools will be sent to a juvenile treatment facility after the parents of one of his victims asked a judge to get him help rather than incarcerate him. He will also be registered as a sex offender.

The teen — who is not identified in news reports because he is a minor — was found responsible for one felony count of forcible sodomy and one felony count of forcible fellatio in a May 28 incident at Stone Bridge High School, in Ashburn. The teen was also found responsible for a felony count of abduction and a misdemeanor count of sexual battery in a second assault with a different victim at Broad Run High School on Oct. 6, WTOP-TV reported.

The first victim was the teenage daughter of Scott and Jessica Smith. Scott Smith was arrested during a raucous June 22 school board meeting and charged with disorderly conduct after school officials denied receiving reports of sexual assaults occurring in school bathrooms, even though the board was aware that Smith's daughter had been assaulted in the girls' room just weeks before. At the time the school board was debating the adoption of a policy that would permit transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice. Parents argued this policy could endanger students, while school officials denied that was true. The incident became a cultural and political flashpoint as control of schools became an issue 2021 Virginia gubernatorial election.

The Smith family gave statements at a disposition hearing — the juvenile equivalent of a sentencing hearing — asking Loudoun County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Chief Judge Pamela Brooks to send him to receive psychological treatment rather than lock him up in jail.

Smith's daughter, now 16, took the stand and addressed the defendant by name, telling him, "I’m still here. I believe you belong in a program, even though you took advantage of me.”

Her mother also gave a statement asking the judge to place the defendant in a long-term residential facility where he can get help to reform.

"I feel that if this boy goes directly to juvenile jail, he will not receive any treatment," Jessica Smith said, according to the Daily Mail.

"I feel if he is placed in a long-term residential, he might have a fighting chance of becoming a better human being," she told the judge.

During his statement, Scott Smith said, "You voluntarily took what you wanted. That makes you a dangerous animal. Dangerous animals deserve to be caged, sometimes even put down."

According to WTOP, when he said that, the defendant's mother, who was in the courtroom, began shaking uncontrollably.

But Smith ended his remarks by telling the defendant, "You could change."

“I don’t believe that you’re a monster. I thought you looked like a monster, but you really don’t.” He said that when he was a teenager he had been sent to a residential facility, without giving further details.

"Please, dude — do the right thing, man. I can see in your eyes, you know you did wrong," he told the defendant.

Before the judge handed down his sentence, the defendant was permitted to make a statement.

"In my time here, I’ve probably thought about this more than I’ve ever thought about anything in my life. I hurt people in this courtroom. Until I heard the witness testimony, I didn’t realize how much I hurt them. I would like to sincerely apologize to the court, the families, the victims," he said.

“I will never do anything like that again, or hurt anyone like this again.”

Ahead of sentencing, the judge was given the results of a psychological evaluation of the defendant. This evaluation tests a person's sexual interests to see if there is any deviation from what's considered generally acceptable behavior and assesses the risk of a future re-offense.

“This court has dealt with juvenile sexual assaults before; it’s sadly more common than people outside the system realize," Brooks said, according to WTOP.

After reviewing the reports prepared for her, Brooks told the defendant, "Yours scares me. What I read scares me for yourself, your family and society in general. Young man, you need a lot of help.” She told him he is at high risk for re-offending.

“Even though your lawyer argues this was consensual,” Brooks said, “when someone says yes one day it doesn’t mean they say yes every day. No means no. You exhibited predatory behavior.”

“I hope when you come out, you come out as a healthy, functioning individual. I’m not sending you to the Department of Juvenile Justice. That would not serve any purpose for you, the commonwealth, or the community,” she said.

She ordered the defendant to have no contact with the victims or their families, then announced, "This judge has never made this order before: I am ordering you onto the sex offender registry.”

The defendant will return to court in July 2024, when he turns 18 and his probation will end.

Loudoun County sheriff says school superintendent was 'unmistakably aware' about bathroom sexual assault when he denied it



The Loudoun County sheriff said that he personally informed the Loudoun County school superintendent about a bathroom sexual assault when the superintendent publicly denied knowing about it.

The newest development gives ammunition to parents in the district who are demanding that superintendent Scott Ziegler resign.

The quarrel between school officials and parents in the Loudoun district made national headlines when physical altercations were cited as evidence that federal law enforcement officials needed to investigate to protect school officials.

One of the parents involved in a physical altercation later said that his daughter had been sexually assaulted in a bathroom of a school in the district. Ziegler told parents at the time that he had no record of any sexual assault at the schools.

Sheriff Chapman said in a letter dated Nov. 10 that he had "personally reported" the incident to the school board on the day of the incident.

"Nothing in your [Ziegler's] letter addresses the following facts," Chapman wrote. "That you [Ziegler] knew of the alleged sexual offense the day it occurred. That despite a public statement at a School Board meeting on June 22, 2021 denying any knowledge of sexual assaults in any LCPS bathrooms, you sent an email on May 28, 2021 to members of the school board advising them of the incident – thus invalidating your public statement."

Chapman reiterated his claims in an interview with the National Desk, where he confirmed that the school district knew about the assault on the day of the incident.

"The superintendent knew, on the day that that occurred, certainly of the incident, he knew when the individual had been charged, that had been information that had been relayed to him by juvenile intake," he said.

"So it's not like the school was flying blind here, they knew exactly what was going on throughout the entire circumstances of this case," Chapman added.

Chapman went on to say that the investigation of parents by the Department of Justice was "extreme" based on the level of threats that were made.

Here's more about the Loudoun scandal:

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Parents are outraged that students at a Loudoun County high school were given a survey asking for details about their sex lives



Parents of students in the Loudoun Valley High School are outraged after finding out their children were given a survey asking for details about their sex lives without parent notification or consent.

The incident is only the newest in a series of controversies that have erupted at Loudoun County Public Schools.

The school in Purcellville, Virginia, said that about 180 students were given the survey and about 90 of them completed it. The survey is designed to be optional and anonymous.

The state guidelines for the Virginia Youth Survey says that parents should be given a 30-day notice of the survey before it is administered so that they can review it and opt out their child. That guidance was not followed at Loudoun Valley High.

WJLA-TV interviewed one parent who said her 14-year-old daughter texted her while she took the survey and said that she was uncomfortable answering some of the questions. The mother, who asked to remain unidentified, told her daughters to skip the survey, but added that the "damage had already been done, the innocence lost."

WJLA documented some of the more problematic questions on the survey:

  • During your life, with whom have you had sexual contact?
  • Have you ever had sexual intercourse?
  • During your life, with how many people have you had sexual intercourse?

Loudoun Valley High School Assistant Principal Bill Gulgert apologized to parents about the incident. He said that the data collected in the survey would be "removed" and not used. He added that the school "respects the right of parents to be notified in such matters."

WJLA reported that other areas were administering the same survey, including Fairfax County, City of Alexandria, and Prince William County.

Here's the local news clip about the sex survey:

Some parents in Loudoun County weren\u2019t notified their children were taking a survey that asks students details about their sex life & more. \n\nSome parents tell @7NewsDC they are livid and sickened. \n\nStory: https://wjla.com/news/local/livid-sickened-some-parents-not-notified-of-survey-asking-kids-about-their-sex-life-loudoun-county-purcellville-va-youth-survey\u00a0\u2026pic.twitter.com/KK5vLa2icl

— Nick Minock (@NickMinock) 1637109180

Mom of skirt-wearing male teen who raped female teen in bathroom says son identifies as male and just wanted sex as she berates victim: 'You're 15. You can reasonably defend yourself.'



The Loudoun County, Virginia, mother of the skirt-wearing teen accused of raping a female classmate in a girls' bathroom is speaking out in defense of her son, saying that he is not transgender, identifies as male, and simply "wanted sex."

In October, an area judge found the student guilty of sexually assaulting a female student in a girls' bathroom in May.

The unnamed male student was placed under electronic surveillance over the attack, but was later said to have groped another female teen at a different Loudoun County high school earlier in October.

What are the details?

The woman, who remains unnamed at the time of this reporting, told the Daily Mail that her 15-year-old son is male and not transgender.

She defended her son as simply engaging in the actions of a "heterosexual, hormonal teen who, in the case of the rape, had consensual sex with the girl twice before."

"He's a 15-year-old boy that wanted to have sex in the bathroom, with somebody that was willing," she said. "And they're twisting this just enough to make it a political hot button issue."

The woman said that her son — who she admitted is "deeply troubled" — was only wearing a skirt that particular day because he has an "androgynous style."

She explained, "He would wear a skirt one day and then the next day, he would wear jeans and a T-shirt, a polo, or hoodie. He was trying to find himself and that involved all kinds of styles. I believe he was doing it because it gave him attention he desperately needed and sought."

Male teen 'depicted the rape as an accident'

The woman added that her son described the sexual assault to her in a way that made her believe the incident was all a misunderstanding.

The two, according to the woman, met in a bathroom earlier in the day because the female teen "wasn't feeling well that day."

"He was worried about her, asked her how she was feeling, touched her forehead, brought water for her," his mother recalled, and said that her son told her that he and the female teen talked about having sex later on in the day.

She continued, "He'd mentioned something about hooking up with her, said they'd discussed it that day and that she was wishy-washy, was like, 'Yeah, maybe, I still don't feel well, we'll see.'"

She then said that her son later followed the female teen into the bathroom a second time later in the day, where he ended up advancing on her when she said that she was feeling "much better" than earlier the morning.

The male teen, according to the woman, "depicted the rape as an accident" and said that he didn't mean to insert himself into her anus.

"He said he was intending for vaginal and it ended up for 10 seconds as anal," the woman recalled. "He knew she was in pain. He said, 'Are you okay?'' She said that hurt. And he's like, 'What kind of pain?'"

The woman said, "He was showing genuine concern."

'You're not going to just sit there and take it'

She then called into question the teen girl's response to the incident.

"If I was in a position where I was about to be raped, I would be screaming, kicking, everything," she said. "You're 15. You can reasonably defend yourself. You're not just going to sit there and take it. And so, because there wasn't a presence of a fight, he felt it was okay to keep going."

In late October, the teen was found guilty for the May sexual assault, which took place at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, Virginia. His victim admitted that the two previously had sex in the bathroom and that they'd agreed to meet there once more during lunch break. In her testimony, the unnamed female student said that she arrived at the bathroom and told him that she no longer wanted to have sex, but he threw her on the floor in response and forced her into sexual activities.

He was remanded to juvenile detention pending a Nov. 15 hearing in connection with the second incident — which reportedly took place at Broad Run High School in Ashburn in early October.

'What are they trying to do?'

The Daily Mail reported that sources stated that the 15-year-old has a checkered record when it comes to sexual indiscretions, and in fifth grade the teen reportedly sent nude photos of himself to a female classmate.

The girl's parents reportedly agreed not to file charges in exchange for the district keeping the boy away from their daughter.

His mother, according to the outlet, confirmed the incident and snapped, "What the f*** does that have to do with anything?"

"What are they trying to do?" she asked. "Did they hire an investigator to dig up everything and ruin him for the rest of his life? ... He's been a challenging child his whole life, which I've dealt with myself. My son's gone through multiple forms of counseling and therapy, resources here, at school, friends, family. It's been 15 years of hell trying to get him to do better and be better."

According to the report, the woman still is not sure what to make of the charges in connection to the Oct. 6 incident.

"I didn't hear my son's side of it because he was being hauled into [juvenile detention] before I could talk to him," she concluded. "What is the end game on this? My son's going to be on the sexual registry and be committed to Megan's Law for the rest of his life because he had 15-year-old hormones."

'Loudoun County protects rapists!': Virginia students stage walkouts protesting recent sexual assault cases in schools



Students across Loudoun County, Virginia, staged a walkout Tuesday in protest of recent sexual assault cases within the public school system, Fox News reported.

According to local reports, students also walked out to show solidarity with the victims of the heinous crimes.

On Monday, an area judge found a skirt-wearing male student guilty of sexually assaulting a female student in the girls' bathroom in May. The unnamed male student was placed under electronic surveillance over the attack, but was later said to have groped another female teen at a different Loudoun County high school earlier this month.

Bryson Gray are the details?

Michelle Luttrell, principal at Loudoun County High School, said that students would not be penalized for their demonstration.

In a statement, Luttrell said, "Students who choose to participate will not be penalized for their participation; however, we do ask that students who participate do so peacefully, without signage, and in accordance with the Students Rights and Responsibilities we all reviewed and signed at the beginning of the year."

Students at other area schools, including Stone Bridge High School, Broad Run High School, Riverside High School, and more, participated in the walkout Tuesday.

According to a Tuesday report from the Washington Free Beacon, "hundreds" of public school students in the district participated in the demonstrations.

Earlier in October, Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler said that the district's current policies do not adequately address sexual assault cases.

In a statement, Ziegler said, "I want to acknowledge that our processes and procedures were not adequate to respond to these recent events. It has become clear that our administrative procedures have not kept pace with the growth we have seen in our county."

District officials also apologized for stating that there were no sexual assaults in restrooms during a June school board meeting.

The Free Beacon's report added that Ziegler was aware of the sexual assault that took place during the 2020-21 school year even though he previously said that the district did not have any record of "assaults occurring in our restrooms."

What else about the students' protest?

Demonstrating students, according to the report, shouted, "Loudoun County protects rapists!"

A report from WJLA-TV added that students also demonstrated from outside other schools in the district, including Briar Woods High School and Lightridge High School, bringing the number of protesting students to the hundreds.

The unnamed male teen suspect is due back in court on Nov. 15 to face a sexual battery charge on the second attack.

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