It&#8217;s an astonishing statistic that took the internet by storm: 94% of jobs created in 2021 went to racial minorities. It&#8217;s also completely untrue.
The conclusion from Bloomberg — which credits five reporters and four editors for <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-black-lives-matter-equal-opportunity-corporate-diversity/?srnd=premium" target="_blank" rel="noopener">its report</a> — is that on the heels of the Black Lives Matter protests, corporations followed through on their promise to diversify their ranks. The outlet reported that companies in the S&amp;P 100 added 323,094 new employees in 2021, and that only 20,524 of those new jobs were filled by whites.
If true, such a statistic could launch a legion of victorious racial discrimination lawsuits — blacks, Asians, and Hispanics make up roughly 40% of the population, and there is no way they could obtain 94% of new jobs without some level of discrimination.
But the takeaway from Bloomberg is an example of innumeracy by journalists at an outlet once relied upon by businessmen for savvy financial analysis — or of willfully setting aside common sense in favor of what the publication acknowledged is an ideologically-driven &#8220;project to <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2023-09-26/how-nike-cvs-amazon-drove-diversity-change-post-george-floyd-protests?srnd=premium&amp;leadSource=uverify%20wall" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hold companies accountable</a> to [diversity] pledges.&#8221;
A Daily Wire analysis of the same numbers examined by Bloomberg found that, in reality, the demographics of hiring figures for 2021 were barely different from previous years. The percentage of new jobs that went to whites was likely about 46%, eight points below the 54% white makeup of companies&#8217; existing workforces. That&#8217;s to be expected given demographic changes in the United States since the time that the currently-retiring baby boomer generation first entered the workforce.
Though Bloomberg spun the tale as a victory for Black Lives Matter, blacks benefited the least of any racial group from the slight decline in whites, according to the analysis. The percentage of black hires was up from the status quo by 1%, while Asians were up by 2%, and Hispanics were up by 4%. That&#8217;s also explained by demographics — decades ago, when baby boomers entered the workforce, the U.S. was mostly white and black; in the decades since, the numbers of Hispanics and Asians in the United States have increased.
Here&#8217;s how Bloomberg got the story wrong, and how numbers actually work.
Bloomberg based its analysis on a form companies file to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission listing the racial breakdown of their U.S. employees. The forms are filed annually, but they don&#8217;t break out stats for employees hired that year; they just provide the total headcount of all employees by race.
Bloomberg, reaching for a way to isolate recent numbers, focused on the fact that companies increased their cumulative headcount by some 320,000 in 2021. Then they made a flawed leap of logic: They took the increase of minorities across the entire workforce, and divided it by the number of new positions — not the number of actual hires, which overwhelmingly come from replacing people who leave the company. In short, they got the denominator wrong.
&#8220;Bloomberg obtained 2020 and 2021 data for 88 S&amp;P 100 companies and calculated overall US job growth at those firms&#8230;.  Overall, these companies increased their headcount by 323,094 employees in 2021,&#8221; the outlet wrote. &#8220;Bloomberg then analyzed the racial makeup of those additional workers, finding that 94% of them were people of color.&#8221;
But it’s not possible from the data to say that those additional “people of color” took the 320,000 newly created positions. Most of them were almost certainly hired as part of a much larger group: replacements for existing jobs that were vacated by retirees or people changing jobs.
The 88 companies in Bloomberg’s study together employed 8.9 million workers in 2020. Based on a <a href="https://www.netsuite.com/portal/resource/articles/human-resources/employee-turnover-statistics.shtml#:~:text=What%20is%20a%20good%20employee,is%20known%20as%20involuntary%20turnover." target="_blank" rel="noopener">typical annual turnover rate of 18%</a>, an estimated 1.6 million people would have left and been replaced in 2021. So the increase in minorities shouldn&#8217;t be calculated as 300,000 out of 320,000 — it&#8217;s 300,000 out of roughly 2 million (1.6 million plus 320,000).
Some companies may have had no employment growth at all, just turnover from retirements. Bloomberg&#8217;s methodology could capture minor demographic changes across companies like this, then apply all those changes to a small number of newly-created positions from entirely different companies.
Take this hypothetical: There are two companies, each staffed by 100 white people. One of them replaces 20 retiring white employees with 20 black employees. The other is very profitable, so it creates 10 new positions, all given to whites. Bloomberg&#8217;s methodology would conclude that the companies, as a group, hired 20 black people into 10 new jobs, and that minorities received 200% of jobs. This is obviously impossible, and in fact, all of the new jobs went to whites.
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In 2020, the S&amp;P companies were just under 54% white. If every retiree was replaced with someone of the same race, and whites also got the same share of the new jobs, you&#8217;d expect to see 173,000 whites added. Bloomberg observes that there were only 20,000 whites added.
What this tells us is there was a shortage of approximately 153,000 whites — but that&#8217;s not across the 320,000, it&#8217;s across 2 million jobs filled. Instead of hiring just over 1 million whites (54%), they hired about 884,000 (45%).
On the &#8220;people of color&#8221; side, Bloomberg said that Hispanics grew by 131,000 in the 320,000 jobs. But they actually simply got their share of newly-created new jobs (54,000), plus out of the 864,000 whites retiring, 77,000 were replaced by Hispanics.
In all, we can compute that of the 2 million jobs filled in 2021, about 400,000 went to Hispanics — 20%, which is only slightly higher than the 17% in the legacy workforce.
Following the same logic, the number of 2021 hires who were Asian was 12%, slightly higher than the 10% of the legacy workforce, while blacks went up 1%, from 17% to 18%.
Though blacks benefited the least from the decline in whites, that&#8217;s expected because blacks, who make up 12% of the population, are actually overrepresented in the workforce studied by Bloomberg.
Robert VerBruggen, an economic policy fellow at the Manhattan Institute, agreed that Bloomberg’s analysis failed to take into account the workers leaving and their demographics.
“The country&#8217;s demographics are changing — older generations are much whiter than younger ones,” VerBruggen told The Daily Wire. “If whites are disproportionately retiring and non-whites are disproportionately getting jobs, that will skew the numbers, giving the appearance of a serious commitment to equity — or mass violations of civil-rights law, depending on one&#8217;s perspective.”
A telltale sign that Bloomberg&#8217;s &#8220;percentage of the net increase&#8221; methodology is flawed, VerBruggen explained, is that, if the departures of whites had been just a little higher, the net change in whites would have been negative instead of the actual small growth of 20,000. Bloomberg&#8217;s methodology would then assert that whites took a negative percentage of the new 320,000 jobs, a mathematic impossibility.
The study also received pushback from pollster Patrick Ruffini, who <a href="https://twitter.com/PatrickRuffini/status/1707022523391488291" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Bloomberg’s analysis was “statistically illiterate” and pointed out the outlet’s failure to take into account employee turnover.
“This stuff could be the product of generational turnover in the workforce,” Ruffini said. “If retirees are 80% white and new workers are 55% in line with demographics of young workers, you get numbers like this.”
Normally in journalism, there is a safeguard that comes in the form of calling the companies mentioned for comment. But Bloomberg said &#8220;none of the half-dozen companies with the most notable diversity gains wanted to discuss them in detail.&#8221;
The companies could have pointed out that Bloomberg&#8217;s methodology was flawed, and prevented them from publishing an error. But the error overstated their diversity gains, and it was clear from the reporters&#8217; bias that big diversity gains would be portrayed favorably. (The story was headlined “Corporate America Promised to Hire a Lot More People of Color. It Actually Did.”)
Asked about the methodology for its study, a Bloomberg spokeswoman said &#8220;We stand by our reporting and analysis.&#8221;
The Daily Wire&#8217;s calculations based on the data used by Bloomberg can be viewed below:
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Black Lives Matter

Bloomberg Flubs Data For Bombshell Report That Only 6% Of New Corporate Hires Are White

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Critical Race Theory

Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI)

Jobs

Media Bias

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. — A jury of six women and one man on Friday found ex-Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler guilty of using his position to retaliate against a teacher for cooperating with a grand jury investigating how the district handled sexual assault.
After a four-day trial plus a day of deliberations, the jury found that Ziegler wrongfully fired a teacher who had disclosed to Virginia investigators about mishandling of sexual assault in her classroom. Ziegler was convicted of using his official position to retaliate against someone for exercising their rights, and acquitted of punishing someone for testifying to a jury, both misdemeanors.
Ziegler could face up to 12 months in jail, a $2,500 fine, or both. Sentencing in the trial will occur on January 4, 2024, Judge Douglas Fleming Jr. said. Ziegler&#8217;s victim, former special education teacher Erin Brooks, clasped her hands in front of her mouth in emotion after the verdict was read.
Prosecutors appointed by Attorney General Jason Miyares, a Republican, said that after they began investigating the school district&#8217;s coverup of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bathroom rape</a>, they spoke with Brooks, who disclosed an unrelated instance of mishandling of sexual assault by school administrators. Brooks was then fired by Ziegler for cooperating with the special grand jury.
Out of all of LCPS&#8217; 15,000 teachers, Brooks was singled out for firing by Ziegler at a school board meeting in June 2022, prosecutors said. Ziegler told board members he fired Brooks for giving private information to a conservative activist, and for giving private information to the grand jury, school board member John Beatty testified.
Ziegler&#8217;s alleged claim that Brooks had given information to a conservative activist turned out to be false, and it would be illegal to punish her for telling the truth to a jury she&#8217;d been subpoenaed by, prosecutors argued.
At trial, school board member Brenda Sheridan, a Democrat who was chair during the gender-fluid rape coverup, was asked under oath about Ziegler&#8217;s closed-door statements that amounted to a confession. She did not deny Beatty&#8217;s version, but instead refused to answer, saying that because division attorney Robert Falconi was in the room during the discussion, she believed she could invoke attorney-client privilege.
Ziegler, who was wearing earrings and nail polish, did not testify at trial.
Falconi convinced the board to drop their questions about Brooks that June night by falsely saying she could simply appeal.
LCPS, often through its then-attorney Falconi, repeatedly attacked, tried to shut down, and obfuscated to the special grand jury, which Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin promised to convene following the Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says">October 2021 expose</a> of a &#8220;genderfluid&#8221; rape coverup.
The grand jury previously said it would have indicted Falconi for witness tampering because of his central role in the rape coverup, but were hamstrung by the fact that Virginia doesn&#8217;t have a witness tampering law.
Though Ziegler&#8217;s defense attorney Erin Harrigan said in opening arguments that she would show that Ziegler fired Brooks for invading the privacy of her student assailant, she failed to produce evidence that private information was shared or that a policy was violated. None of the witnesses could point to a policy that Brooks violated.
Prosecutors laid out a devastating timeline of retaliation against Brooks, who was trying to get administrators to do something about the fact that a student with intellectual disabilities was grabbing the genitals of her and her teaching assistant Laurie Vandermeulen dozens of times a day, while making crude motions with his tongue. Administrators offered the educators a piece of cardboard called &#8220;no-no hands,&#8221; and told them to hold it in front of their groins. They also offered to buy them dog groomer aprons to wear to &#8220;slow down penetration,&#8221; they said.
At a loss for what to do, Vandermeulen asked a frequent speaker at school board meetings, Ian Prior, to read a letter to the school board expressing that there were two teachers who were being sexually assaulted in class and needed help.
Vandermeulen also sent a record of the assaults she was facing to her personal gmail after fearing a coverup was afoot, which Ziegler&#8217;s attorney initially tried to portray as &#8220;smuggling&#8221; private information, but ultimately failed to show that Vandermeulen violated any policy.
On March 22, 2022, principal Diane Mackey gave Brooks a glowing evaluation. That night, Prior made the speech, which contained no identifying information about the student, the teachers, or even the name of the school. Prior didn&#8217;t know any details about the student and Vandermeulen asked him not to use any names. He only said that teachers had filed a Title IX complaint on a certain date that he hoped the school board would look into.
Mackey saw the school board speech and the student was moved out of Brooks&#8217; classroom the next day, but Brooks became the target of ruthless animus from school administrators.
Soon after, Brooks asked Mackey for a day off to testify to the grand jury, and Mackey demanded to see the subpoena. Ziegler asked HR whether Brooks was a probationary employee, meaning she would be easy to fire. Mackey spoke to Ziegler about Brooks, then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/in-his-criminal-trial-former-loudoun-county-superintendent-blames-sex-assault-victims" target="_blank" rel="noopener">falsely testified</a> to the grand jury that she had not, she acknowledged this week, chalking it up to a memory error. Mackey also spoke about Brooks to Falconi, the attorney who prosecutors said was Ziegler&#8217;s &#8220;right-hand man.&#8221;
In May, Mackey wrote a negative evaluation and letter to Ziegler recommending that she be fired. Ziegler used the letter the same day to have her fired, suggesting he was waiting on it.
Prosecutors said the year-end evaluation of Brooks showed that school officials had &#8220;fabricated&#8221; the allegations retroactively to justify Ziegler&#8217;s desire to fire her, given that she had a stellar record and had been named Special Ed Teacher of the Year the prior year.
The evaluation focused squarely on the student who was the subject of the trial, saying she had failed to manage his behavior and failed to implement &#8220;plans&#8221; like the cardboard. It, and Ziegler&#8217;s attorney, suggested that Brooks had caused the student to sexually assault her by making him frustrated by refusing to give him an iPad.
The year-end evaluation posed a major timeline problem for the defense: The student never set foot in Brooks&#8217; classroom in between her glowing March evaluation and negative May one. Yet the May one was full of allegations involving her handling of the student that were absent from, or outright contradicted by, the earlier evaluation.
&#8220;She made it up after the fact. Isn&#8217;t it brazen how she did this?&#8221; prosecutor Brandon Wrobleski asked. &#8220;&#8216;We can&#8217;t have more sexual assaults coming out. Anyone who brings sexual assaults to public attention is gone.&#8217; That&#8217;s what happened here,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Look a how well the Family works together when a dissident speaks out. She goes from Teacher of the Year to fired,&#8221; he said.
Ziegler’s attorney Harrigan explained the discrepancy in closing arguments by saying that in between the two evaluations, Mackey had seen that the student supposedly did not assault his new teacher, leading to a conclusion that Brooks and Vendermeulen must have been to blame for their own assaults.
Prosecutor Theo Stamos said the defense had offered no &#8220;motive&#8221; why Brooks and Vandermeulen would voluntarily cause themselves to be sexually assaulted or deprive him of an iPad communication device&#8211;Brooks was actually such a proponent of the communication aid for disabled students that she led a training on it.
The defense&#8217;s evidence that she had caused the assaults by failing to implement administrators&#8217; &#8220;plans&#8221; or not provided him an iPad was based on fleeting observations from a handful of administrators who had stopped in Brooks&#8217; class for a few minutes, and whose testimony at trial suggested that the defense had overstated or misrepresented their observations.
Harrigan emphasized in closing arguments that the law about an employer punishing someone for jury testimony talks about punishing them for being absent. Ziegler was found not guilty of that charge, perhaps because jurors believed he was retaliating against Brooks for what she said to the grand jury, not for taking a day off work to do it.
A month after his January 4 sentencing, Ziegler will face a separate trial on a final misdemeanor charge that was at the core of The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says">2021 story</a>: His false statement at a school board meeting that there had been no sexual assaults in LCPS restrooms&#8211;part of a screed denigrating parents who were concerned about a transgender policy being discussed&#8211;when in fact he knew that a skirt-wearing boy had anally raped a ninth grader in the girls bathroom just weeks prior.
Harrigan said she plans to file a &#8220;somewhat legally complex&#8221; &#8220;motion to set aside the jury&#8217;s verdict.&#8221;

Scott Ziegler outside the Loudoun courthouse on September 28, 2023 / Daily Wire

Jury Finds Former Loudoun County Superintendent Guilty Of Crime Stemming From Trans Rape Coverup

Education

Loudoun County

Sexual Assault

Transgender

Virginia

LOUDOUN COUNTY, Va. – A criminal trial for former Loudoun County Public Schools Superintendent Scott Ziegler will head into its fourth day Thursday as he faces charges that he retaliated against a teacher for blowing the whistle on sexual abuse, and for cooperating with a special grand jury empaneled to investigate the school system following its coverup of a bathroom rape.
Former teacher Erin Brooks testified that a 10-year-old autistic student would grab her genitals dozens of times a day while making sexual motions with his tongue, and that when she said her workplace was becoming unsafe, administrators gave her a piece of cardboard to hold in front of her groin and offered to buy her an apron to, as Brooks said, “slow down the penetration.”
Ziegler’s attorney Erin Harrigan and Diane Mackey, the principal of Rosa Lee Carter Elementary, both appeared to blame Brooks and her teaching aide Laurie Vandermeulen for the abuse the educators described in testimony. As far as they knew, they argued in court, the student didn’t do the same to his new teacher, and the teachers failed to implement their suggestions such as the apron.
The trial, in which the school district&#8217;s disgraced former top official faces three misdemeanor charges, could be the best chance at criminal culpability for Loudoun officials after its spokesman was acquitted of felony perjury charges. Outrage over the school system&#8217;s coverup of a rape by a skirt-wearing boy, coupled with the fact that the county&#8217;s prosecutor is a leftist activist who tried to jail the rape victim&#8217;s father, led Gov. Glenn Youngkin to empower a special grand jury to investigate the school system.
The charges Ziegler is facing this week stem from allegations that the administrator punished a teacher for cooperating with that grand jury, and for talking about another incident of sexual abuse which she feared LCPS wanted to cover up.
Brooks said she was a dedicated special education teacher who withstood hitting, spitting, and biting without complaint, but that this was something much worse, and she was concerned for the student as well as herself, but that the school district’s response was “feeble.”
“In my expert opinion, these behaviors were a sign that something is going on, that they’re witnessing or experiencing it. I asked Mrs. Mackey to call [Child Protective Services], but she refused,” Brooks said.
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<h1>Prosecutors asked Mackey to show the jury what she wanted Brooks to use the piece of cardboard for, and Mackey stood up and held it in front of her groin. “I would have expected her to be professional enough to work with this student,” she said.</h1>
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Ziegler’s attorney repeatedly suggested that Brooks was responsible for her own sexual assault because she refused to give the autistic student an iPad, leading to his frustration. The jury heard little evidence from witnesses that this occurred, and none to explain why Brooks — a second-generation special ed teacher — would have a motive to do that.
Brooks and Vandermeulen documented how many times a day they were assaulted at work. They shared the chart by email with Principal Mackey, but she never even opened it. Vandermuelen eventually began forwarding some emails on the topic to her personal Gmail, fearing that they were headed towards another LCPS sex-abuse coverup.
Vandermeulen broke down in tears on the witness stand recounting how she suffered the same abuse — first at the hands of a special needs student, and then at the hands of the school administration when she advocated for it to stop.
She worked to get the attention of the school board but didn’t know how, so a friend introduced her to Ian Prior, a frequent speaker before the school board. Vandermeulen gave Prior only a bare accounting of the difficulty she was facing — a teacher facing sexual abuse who filed a Title IX complaint in March 2022 — and he relayed the same at a school board meeting.
After learning that Vandermeulen had the conversation, Brooks googled Prior’s contact information and messaged him warning him not to disclose any personal information about the child — which it turned out was unnecessary because he didn’t know any.
After the school board meeting — which Mackey watched — the student was immediately removed from Brooks’ and Vendermeulen’s classroom, and Brooks was summoned to the office, believing something was finally being done to help her. Instead, she learned she was being investigated by the school system, and began facing retaliation, she said.
Mackey read her performance evaluation of Brooks in court, which repeatedly seemed to blame her for her own sexual assault, and said her failure to control her classroom led to a student being moved to a different class, which the evaluation said was the major black mark against her.
“Mrs. Brooks displayed rigidity in responding to the needs of a student, resulting in the student being removed from the classroom,” it said.
Prosecutors asked Mackey to show the jury what she wanted Brooks to use the piece of cardboard for, and Mackey stood up and held it in front of her groin. “I would have expected her to be professional enough to work with this student,” she said.
The prosecutor asked “what would be the appropriate professional response to having her genitals touched,” to which Mackey responded, “I don’t know.”
Evidence at trial showed that Brooks was Special Education Teacher of the Year in 2021, and got glowing reviews in early 2022 — only to have Ziegler recommend that the school board fire her, the only teacher he did that to.
The school district began claiming that Brooks violated the student&#8217;s privacy after an education activist made a vague mention of the educators’ workplace safety issue at a school board meeting — there was no mention of the student&#8217;s name or age, or even the name of the school.
In court, Ziegler’s lawyer claimed he asked the board to fire Brooks because LCPS thought it might get sued by the parents of the assailant, despite evidence suggesting that the parents were barely responsive and that the student might even be suffering abuse at home.
Principal Mackey testified that she recommended that Brooks be fired without pressure from Ziegler — but also admitted that her testimony to the grand jury a year ago, in which she denied ever discussing it with him, was false. She remembered on the first day of the trial that she did have a phone call with him about it, she said.
Human resources had not recommended that Brooks be fired, but Ziegler aggressively pushed for her firing anyway in retaliation for filing a Title IX complaint and testifying to the grand jury, the prosecution said.
School board member John Beatty testified that Ziegler told the board that Brooks improperly disclosed private information about a child to a conservative activist (which, testimony at trial showed, was untrue) and to the special grand jury initiated by Gov. Youngkin in response to the &#8220;gender-fluid&#8221; rape coverup (to which she was subpoenaed and legally required to disclose all details). Beatty testified that Ziegler seemed happy to fire Brooks, and that he acted suspiciously when questioned about it.
Principal Mackey acknowledged that when Brooks asked for the day off to testify, she demanded to see the subpoena. Just prior to Ziegler’s indictment, the grand jury issued a report saying that a member of Ziegler&#8217;s cabinet had told school employees and board members not to speak openly with the grand jury, and that it would have indicted Mackey for witness tampering if Virginia had such a law. Mackey said she communicated closely with the cabinet member who issued the warning.
The special grand jury was convened by Gov. Youngkin to investigate LCPS, spurred by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says">The Daily Wire’s October 2021 report</a>. Loudoun’s local prosecutor is a far-Left activist who tried to jail the father of the rape victim. Ziegler is facing three misdemeanors — two involving Brooks, and one which will be tried separately in February for falsely stating that there had been no sexual assaults in the school bathrooms when he knew a &#8220;gender-fluid&#8221; student had done so just weeks prior.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-said-trumps-policies-forced-them-to-cover-up-rape-its-own-lawyers-found-the-opposite-in-secret-report">Loudoun Said Trump’s Policies Forced Them To Cover Up Rape. Its Own Lawyers Found The Opposite In Secret Report.</a>

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In His Criminal Trial, Former Loudoun County Superintendent Blames Sex Assault Victims

A secret internal report commissioned by the Loudoun County, Virginia public school system found that school administrators failed to even look into a 2021 rape by a skirt-wearing boy, in brazen violation of federal Title IX laws governing sexual harassment.
The <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/BK-Report-Redacted-Final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a>, written by Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS)’s own law firm Blankenship &amp; Keith, emerged last week after a judge blocked the school system&#8217;s efforts to continue hiding it. It found that the Title IX rules were clear — especially after changes made under President Donald Trump in 2020 emphasized the need to investigate all allegations of sexual harassment.
LCPS commissioned the report, billing it as an accountability measure and suggesting it would be released to the public. But after the report was written, it reversed course, refusing to disclose it even after Freedom of Information Act requests and lawsuits, and even initially pursuant to a subpoena from Virginia&#8217;s Attorney General.
Now that it’s been released, one reason for the about-face is clear. Responding to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Daily Wire’s bombshell</a> report in October 2021, the school district&#8217;s then-Superintendent Scott Ziegler held a press conference in which he blamed the federal government and Title IX, saying the primary measure the school district would take in response was lobbying the feds to change regulations.
&#8220;Throughout these recent events, the Loudoun County Public Schools complied with our obligations under Title IX. However, we have found the process outlined under Title IX by the U.S. Department of Education to be insufficient in addressing issues at the K-12 level. We believe the process could be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-superintendent-apologizes-following-daily-wire-investigation-claims-he-misunderstood-question-about-bathroom-sex-assaults" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strengthened with some reforms</a>,” Ziegler said at the 2021 press conference.
It was a brazen dog-whistle to liberals, conjuring hysterical headlines from recent months that suggested that Trump’s Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, had implemented rules protecting males accused of sexual violence in educational environments. But the statement by Ziegler was false, according to LCPS&#8217;s own lawyers.
DeVos made many changes to the Title IX regulations, and some addressed how male college students could be tossed off campus with little due process even for spurious accusations of sexual assault. But at the K-12 level, she broadened the range of sexual misconduct that required investigation, and required swift punitive action where applicable.
“Prior to 2020, the Title IX regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Education did not include specific requirements related to sexual harassment. The 2020 amendments to the Title XI regulations set forth the requirements for a school division&#8217;s response to sexual harassment and added the minimum specific, legally binding steps that school divisions must take in response to notice of alleged sexual harassment,” the LCPS lawyers&#8217; report said. “Under the 2020 amendments to the regulations, sexual harassment is defined to include certain types of unwelcome sexual conduct, sexual assault, dating violence, and stalking.”
That was relevant because while rape was always covered, LCPS administrators had convinced themselves that they didn’t know a rape occurred, and therefore didn’t have an obligation to investigate whether it did. Instead, they claimed, it might have been something less bad, which might not have required a Title IX investigation.
The report said all of this was inapplicable “theoretical” talk.
“The amended Title IX regulations also require school divisions to respond to an allegation of sexual harassment whenever any school employee has notice of sexual harassment,” it said. “Based on the above information that was conveyed to Stone Bridge HS administrators and a school nurse, there can be no doubt that on May 28, 2021, within an hour of the incident, LCPS had actual notice of allegations of sexual harassment as defined by Title IX. Regardless of whether LCPS was certain whether the alleged sexual harassment had occurred, it had notice of alleged misconduct that could meet the definition of sexual harassment.”
But the report said that in violation of Title IX, Loudoun never even began a Title IX investigation.
“Title IX imposed upon LCPS the obligation to have its Title IX Coordinator make an initial assessment of the allegations for Title IX applicability&#8230; Counsel found no evidence that this occurred,” it said.
They also began talking as if they merely had an allegation of “attempted” sexual misconduct, which they claimed might not trigger Title IX. “Ultimately, the Title IX Coordinator concluded that &#8216;my review based on the information we have is this does not rise to the level of Title IX. An allegation of rape yes, an allegation of attempted rape? Maybe,’” the report said.
But they had simply invented the fact that it was an “attempted” rape. The victim immediately reported the rape to the school nurse. Principal Tim Flynn then wrote that it was an “attempted” rape. Pressed on the matter during the perjury trial of spokesman Wayde Byard, who was acquitted, Flynn struggled to explain why he had written that, suggesting the education doctorate did not know the difference between the words “alleged” and “attempted.”
The school system called the police on the rape victim’s father for showing up at the school angry in the hours after the rape, then offered counseling to students who might be traumatized by seeing police at school — falsely saying the police were there only to respond to an angry parent. But LCPS never offered any counseling to the rape victim, its lawyers found.
“LCPS does not appear to have made any outreach to Victim 1 or her family to check on her or to otherwise offer supportive measures as a victim of sexual harassment,” it said, despite Title IX requiring it to &#8220;promptly contact Victim I or her family to discuss the availability and need for supportive measures.&#8221;
Title IX changes during the Trump administration also mandated schools to conduct “threat assessments” to keep students safe after an incident, which LCPS did not do. That might have prevented the rapist from striking again, which he did shortly afterwards, the report said. Even though the Loudoun school board kept all students at home for “distance learning” during COVID, they didn’t consider it for someone who had been arrested for rape and was wearing a GPS ankle monitor, instead returning him to school.
“The 2020 amendments to Title IX feature many principles of threat assessments… Even if the threat assessment did not result in consideration of distance/virtual learning or placement in a specialized school designed to educate students who presented potential safety concerns, the assessment could have helped determine the conditions of, or protocols relating to, the Perpetrator&#8217;s continued education,” it said.
Even after the rape coverup scandal, LCPS did not open any Title IX investigations (except for against the rapist after his second assault and subsequent media coverage). “Since the beginning of SY 2021-22, 159 reports have been submitted by school-based administrators for evaluation as Title IX issues. None of the 159 reports have been determined to meet the threshold to open a Title IX investigation&#8230; Counsel has some concern that the Title IX office may be employing a too restrictive interpretation of Title IX.”
Ziegler heads to a criminal trial next week, where he faces three misdemeanor charges, including one for a false statement in which he denied that there had been any sexual assaults in the schools’ bathrooms, when he knew a gender-fluid teen had allegedly anally raped a ninth-grade girl in the girls’ bathroom just weeks prior. That rapist was later convicted. Ziegler has shown up to court dates so far wearing an earring and nail polish.
The school district&#8217;s lawyer was Robert Falconi, who previously worked for Fairfax County Public Schools, which had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/questions-mount-over-virginia-schools-lawyer-who-hired-his-former-firm-for-secret-rape-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">been rebuffed</a> by the federal government for, like LCPS, falsely claiming that Title IX required schools to take no action until after law enforcement was done investigating. FCPS also was rebuffed by the courts after making the same argument as LCPS that it didn’t need to investigative whether something occurred unless it was sure that thing had occurred. A lawyer called that a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-mcauliffe-linked-law-firm-fighting-virginia-student-who-said-she-was-gang-raped" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Catch-22</a>.
The school system in neighboring Alexandria recently hired Falconi away from Loudoun, to the consternation of many parents.
Scott Smith, the father of the Loudoun rape victim, is suing LCPS over Title IX violations in federal court in Alexandria. The fact that the report reveals that LCPS’ own lawyers said in strong terms that it egregiously violated Title IX makes it more likely that he could win millions of dollars.
County prosecutor Buta Biberaj, who tried to jail Smith, has loudly bemoaned her efforts to prosecute him for cursing at a leftist activist who said she did not believe that his daughter was raped were thwarted by a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/glenn-youngkin-grants-absolute-pardon-to-loudoun-dad-arrested-at-school-board-meeting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pardon</a> from Gov. Glenn Youngkin.

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Loudoun Said Trump’s Policies Forced Them To Cover Up Rape. Its Own Lawyers Found The Opposite In Secret Report.

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A Virginia school board member seeking a promotion to the state legislature may have used her position in an attempt to sabotage her election opponent — a teacher in the school district she presides over, records show.
Democrat Stella Pekarsky, who currently serves on the Fairfax County School Board, was personally involved in discussions over whether to punish Julie Perry, a history teacher who is running against her in this year’s District 36 Senate race, according to <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23986992-pekarsky-foia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">emails and calendar entries</a> obtained by The Daily Wire through a Freedom of Information Act request.
The records show a Pekarsky donor sent Centreville High School Principal Chad Lehman a complaint objecting to conservative social media posts the history teacher made as part of her campaign. Lehman forwarded the complaint to the school board&#8217;s Assistant Superintendent Penny Gros, who said she would seek guidance about what to do. That guidance appears to have come from none other than Pekarsky, and it was followed by a memo reprimanding Perry and threatening her job.
“Your behavior negatively impacts the goals of this department and others,” the reprimand said, citing the campaign posts. “Any action that brings the school system into disrepute may be just cause for dismissal.”
Experts said the conduct of Pekarsky and taxpayer-funded employees could constitute serious misconduct intended to impact the election, saying it is improper for individual board members to be involved in the discipline of specific teachers — much less their own campaign opponents.
The initial complaint came on May 7, not long after Perry announced that she was running for the same seat as Pekarsky, from Robert Rigby, a substitute teacher who is close with Pekarsky. Rigby wrote to Principal Lehman to say that he had filed a complaint with Child Protective Services (CPS) against Perry, citing a social media post she made regarding scientific research that found that autistic children are especially prone to transgenderism.
<div id="attachment_623493" style="width: 656px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-623493" decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="wp-image-623493 size-full" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/rigby-pekarsky-fb-cropped.jpeg" alt="Stella Pekarsky with Robert Rigby / Facebook" width="646" height="418" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/rigby-pekarsky-fb-cropped.jpeg 646w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/rigby-pekarsky-fb-cropped-300x194.jpeg 300w" sizes="(max-width: 646px) 100vw, 646px" />Stella Pekarsky with Robert Rigby / Facebook</div>
Lehman forwarded the complaint to his supervisor, Gros, who said she would &#8220;follow up tomorrow after getting some guidance.&#8221;
The next day, CPS alerted the school that it had dismissed the complaint as unfounded. But soon after, a second complaint was made asking the school itself to take action.
That complaint came on May 11 at 3:15 p.m., when Vanessa Hall – a local Democrat activist who was <a href="https://www.fcps.edu/committee/family-life-education-curriculum-advisory-committee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">appointed</a> to a sex-ed committee by the school board – emailed Lehman pointing to Perry&#8217;s &#8220;numerous social media posts that are homophobic, transphobic, and deeply hurtful to the entire community.&#8221; It said that the tweet — in which Perry said she had personally seen how trangender ideology affected an autistic student — showed that &#8220;she is using students for her political gain.&#8221;
Lehman again forwarded the email to Gros, and calendar entries obtained by The Daily Wire indicate that she within an hour was meeting with Pekarsky to discuss Perry. Gros’ calendar shows a “Phone Call: Stella (re: Julie Perry)” for 4:00 to 4:30 that day, according to emails and calendar entries. And at 4:29, Gros replied to Lehman that she was ready to discuss how to proceed, saying, “I am available if you are.”
A FOIA request for references to Perry in Gros&#8217; account showed no evidence that she consulted anyone else other than Pekarsky for &#8220;guidance&#8221; on the matter.
The next week, Lehman summoned Perry to a meeting in which Hall’s complaint and the fact that a CPS complaint was filed were used as evidence that she had brought the school system into “disrepute,” even though CPS dismissed the complaint, according to a summary memo that Lehman placed in Perry&#8217;s personnel file.
The reprimand ordered Perry to avoid any posts on social media that reference her teaching position.
“Moving forward, you must avoid social media posts that draw a connection to &#8230; your role as a teacher at Centreville High School,” it said. (Pekarsky’s own website <a href="https://stellapekarsky.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">says she is a teacher</a>, even though, according to public records, she does not have a <a href="https://vadoe.mylicense.com/verification/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">teaching license</a>.)
Pam Kirby, a former member of the Scottsdale, Arizona, school board who now leads the Arizona Coalition for School Board Members, said it would be abnormal for an individual school board member to be involved in the discipline case of a specific employee.
School board members have “no authority” as individuals, “they only have authority as a body” through votes, she told The Daily Wire. “It&#8217;s abusing your role as a school board member, whether there&#8217;s an election or not. That authority is given to the superintendent, and the board manages the superintendent,” she said.
The <a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CV6K6B504D07/$file/Manual%20revisions%20approved%20-%207-13-23.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">governance manual</a> outlining the role of the Fairfax County School board members requires members to agree to &#8220;delegate authority for the administration of the schools to the Superintendent” and “refrain from using the board position for personal or partisan gain and avoid any conflict of interest or the appearance of impropriety.”
“I will respect the confidentiality of privileged information and make no individual decisions or commitments that might compromise the board or administration,” it says.
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The board’s <a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/CKEJJH4D68C5/$file/P1801.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Conflict of Interest Policy</a> further states that “a School Board member shall disqualify himself or herself from participating in any transaction on behalf of the school system if he or she has a personal interest,” noting that “violation of the State and Local Government Conflict of Interests Act, which is the basis of this policy, may result in enforcement action by the Commonwealth Attorney, including but not limited to criminal prosecution.”
Virginia <a href="https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacodepopularnames/state-and-local-government-conflict-of-interests-act/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">law</a> says a public official may not “use for his own economic benefit or that of another party confidential information that he has acquired by reason of his public position” or “use his public position to retaliate or threaten to retaliate against any person for expressing views on matters of public concern.”
In the Fairfax County Public Schools rulebook, it says that a dispute over how policy applies to an employee personnel matter would only reach the school board after <a href="https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/BY5HWF4A7833/$file/R4461.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">six layers of appeals</a>.
Violations of rules for board members can result in the “removal from any leadership or committee positions.”
Pekarsky, who is squaring off against Perry for the Senate seat representing western Fairfax County with early voting starting this week, acknowledged in a statement that the CPS call by her donor was a &#8220;misuse&#8221; of the CPS system, but claimed she did not know about it. &#8220;I have recused myself from anything to do with any internal school system process involving her,&#8221; she said.
A FOIA request of Pekarsky&#8217;s emails including Perry&#8217;s name showed no email saying she recused herself from anything
Pekarsky did not deny the &#8220;Phone Call: Stella (re: Julie Perry)&#8221; immediately following the CPS complaint, and did not explain the records or what would have been discussed if not the CPS complaint, instead suggesting that her opponent is a Nazi.
A spokesperson for FCPS defended the contact between the school and Pekarsky. “There is an expectation that all Fairfax County Public Schools regional area superintendents keep their magisterial school board members informed about matters that could be of community concern at any schools under that member’s purview,&#8221; the spokesperson said. &#8220;Such updates are informational.”
But Karen Hilz, a former school board member in Franklin County, Virginia, who has run trainings for school board members, said “The pecking order is assistant superintendent, superintendent, board. So why wasn’t it elevated to the superintendent to inform the board? … And did they reach out solely to [Pekarsky] or inform all board members? If it’s for information purposes you inform all school board members.”
She said the conduct by political activists, FCPS staff, and Pekarsky was “without a doubt election interference.”
“Obviously there’s a relationship there, is what it seems to me, and they were collaborating on what to do with an opponent, which is totally inappropriate,” she added.
Perry said a successful CPS complaint would mean “they would have fired me immediately, ripped my teachers license away from me, I would have never gotten another teaching job, and there’s a chance I would have gone to jail,” she said.
The school district initially attempted to conceal the identities of both Hall and Rigby under FOIA, before conceding that it had no justification for withholding Hall’s name. It continued to conceal Rigby’s name, saying CPS complaints are private under the law.
But Hayden Fisher, a lawyer who is running for another state Senate seat as a Republican, noted that <a href="https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title63.2/chapter15/section63.2-1514/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia law</a> also says a complainant&#8217;s identity can be unmasked if the complaint was &#8220;in bad faith or with malicious intent.&#8221; Representing Perry, he made that argument in court.
On September 8, a Fairfax County judge <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23986994-pekarsky-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">compelled CPS</a> to provide the name of the complainant for his review. The judge said he would investigate whether the person is tied to Pekarsky, and if he found connections, the complaint would likely be presumed to be malicious, Fisher said.
Perry deleted the tweet after only an hour, meaning it was seen by few people and the two complainants were likely working together, Fisher said.
Public records reviewed by The Daily Wire show that Hall, who emailed a complaint to the principal, is one of four officers of a Democrat activist group called <a href="https://cis.scc.virginia.gov/EntitySearch/BusinessInformation?businessId=11378816&amp;source=FromEntityResult&amp;isSeries%20=%20false" target="_blank" rel="noopener">4 Public Education</a>. Another officer of that group is Rigby, raising the possibility that Rigby filed the CPS complaint, with Hall following up with a school-specific complaint when the CPS complaint did not work.
Rigby last year served as an advisor to the Pride Liberation Project, which said it would <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pro-trans-group-behind-virginia-school-walkout-plans-to-rehome-gay-kids-who-hate-their-parents" target="_blank" rel="noopener">harbor minors</a> who wanted to run away from their parents, saying, &#8220;In the event of you needing to leave your home, we can provide you with emergency housing from a supportive, Queer friendly adult.&#8221;
Rigby acknowledged to The Daily Wire that he made the CPS complaint.
Rigby has donated more than <a href="https://www.vpap.org/donors/323895-robert-rigby/?start_year=2018&amp;end_year=2023" target="_blank" rel="noopener">$9,000</a> to Virginia Democrats since 2018, including more than $800 to Pekarsky. He donated to Pekarsky’s Senate campaign three days after Pekarsky spoke to the assistant superintendent, and one day before the principal summoned Perry to threaten her with discipline.
That means the judge may rule the complaint malicious. But that might not come until after the election, with voting beginning September 22 and ending November 7.
Perry said “there have to be consequences” that punish election interference.

Virginia Senate candidate Stella Pekarsky. Campaign website

Virginia Democrat Used Gov’t Position To Play Role In Reprimand Of Her Conservative Opponent, Records Reveal

A Conservative Teacher Is Running For State Senate. A Democrat Operative Complained To Her School District, Which Coordinated With Her Opponent Then Threatened To Fire Her

Election Fraud

Parental Rights in Education

A majority of likely voters think the Virginia Democrat who raised money by performing sexual acts online should end her political campaign, a new poll found.
In the wake of the discovery of Virginia House of Delegates candidate Susanna Gibson&#8217;s pornographic Chaturbate account, 56% of surveyed voters in the state said the Democrat should drop out of the race, while 30% thought she should remain, according to the <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/V2-230927-VA-Founders-Insight-Statewide-9.19.pdf">poll by Founders Insight and co/efficient</a>, which was shared exclusively with The Daily Wire. Among Democrats, 44% said Gibson should drop out, compared to 39% who said she should continue her campaign.
The poll shows that core constituencies Virginia Democrats count on to turn out in elections — women, black, and young voters — signaled they may go in the opposite direction when it comes to Gibson. Women were significantly more likely than men to think she should drop out, with 60% of women saying she should quit.
Another group that Democrats bank firmly on, black voters, felt strongly that she must leave the race, with 62% saying she should drop out and only 18% saying she should stay in. And young people were not as open to the idea of a porn star as a candidate as Democrats might have hoped: 18 to 34-year-olds thought she should drop out by a 50%-40% margin, an even more negative view of the scandal than 35 to 44-year-olds.
Self-described moderates and independents also wanted her to drop out. Among the only demographic groups who said she should stay in the race were self-described liberals, 35 to 44-year-olds, and those who had not voted in any of the last four general elections.
Early voting begins Friday in Virginia&#8217;s pivotal 2023 elections, including the one in a swing district outside of Richmond that pits Democrat Susanna Gibson against Republican David Owen.
The poll surveyed 894 people between September 14 and September 18 and asked: &#8220;Recently, the Washington Post covered a story about a female candidate for the Virginia House of Delegates of live-streamed having sex with her husband while asking for money to perform other sex acts. Do you believe this disqualifies the candidate from running for office?&#8221;
The poll surveyed Virginia voters from around the state who were likely to vote in the general election. Though more voters in every media market wanted her to drop out than stay in, a bright spot for Gibson is that those in the Richmond area, which includes her Henrico district, reported the lowest percentage of voters calling for her to drop out, at 45% versus 38% who wanted her to stay in.
The high percentage of voters in the Richmond area who remained unsure about Gibson — significantly higher than those in the Washington, D.C., market — could be a result of the coverage provided by the local legacy media outlet, the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
The story was broken by The Washington Post and covered by nearly all national outlets, but the local paper has largely looked the other way. Gibson has gone into hiding after the scandal, despite being hours from early voting beginning in a swing district where the partisan control of the entire House of Delegates could be in play.
She has refused to address the scandal or answer questions from media, including the Times-Dispatch. Yet on Tuesday, the Times-Dispatch allowed Gibson to run an op-ed on an unrelated issue, essentially a press release that allowed her to avoid hard questions.
After the move attracted questions about its journalistic integrity, the paper unpublished the op-ed, only to republish it.
It also appeared to pull up old positive stories about Gibson from its archives and pin them to its front page on Tuesday, despite it being unusual for a newspaper to put days-old stories on its homepage.
The paper did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
Though some Democrats have defended the incident as a non-scandal because her conduct was not illegal, lawyers told The Daily Wire the Virginia <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-democrat-who-raised-money-by-selling-sex-acts-could-be-charged-with-prostitution-lawyers-say">prostitute statute likely applies</a> to her conduct since she was taking money from people online in order to perform specific sex acts with another person, her husband on screen.
In the videos, the &#8220;Moms Demand Action&#8221;-endorsed candidate <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-susanna-gibson-aka-hotwifeexperience-the-dem-candidate-who-also-has-an-x-rated-chaturbate-profile">posted as &#8220;HotWifeExperience&#8221;</a> and said that for money she would perform lewd sexual acts, including getting an unwitting hotel room service worker to walk in on her, urinating on camera, and even allowing viewers to do drugs off her body. Though she appears to reference drugs, there are no drugs visible in the videos.

www.susannagibson.com

POLL: Majority Say Virginia Porn Candidate Should Drop Out, Including Democrats And Women

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A prominent leader in the field of “social emotional learning” in K-12 schools surrendered her therapist license days after an investigation by The Daily Wire found she may have repeatedly violated her duty to report child abuse she learned of during her discussions with “young teens” about sex.
On September 1, a week after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-emotional-learning-guru-may-have-concealed-sex-abuse-while-pushing-young-teens-to-enjoy-sex">published</a> an investigation on Jennifer Freed, she <a href="https://drjenniferfreed.substack.com/p/the-great-erase">wrote on her blog</a> that she was surrendering the license she had held for the past four decades.
&#8220;I &#8216;retired&#8217; my MFT [Marriage &amp; Family Therapy] therapist license after being a licensed therapist for 42 years,&#8221; Freed wrote. &#8220;I no longer identify with being an MFT therapist. I am more of a spiritual consultant and advisor. &#8230; These days, I want to be more mutual with people, sharing in the great journey of meaning-making and discovery.&#8221;
Freed called it a &#8220;conscious eraser&#8221; and referenced the potential of &#8220;being pushed out&#8221; of the profession. &#8220;This erasure will happen for all of us, one way or another, by choice or by circumstance,&#8221; Freed wrote. &#8220;Choosing to leave is so much more powerful than needing to leave or being pushed out.&#8221;
Freed is the founder of AHA! Santa Barbara, which is paid by public schools to conduct talk circles with children, while also running after-school programs where Freed talks with them about topics like their pubic hair grooming habits. Evidence suggests that Freed — who was ushered into schools based on her credentials as a psychologist, but markets herself as an astrologist and sex guru — repeatedly failed to disclosure cases of rape or abuse, and is accused by one woman of pressuring her not to press charges against a teacher who sexually harassed her, The Daily Wire reported August 24.
RELATED: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-emotional-learning-guru-may-have-concealed-sex-abuse-while-pushing-young-teens-to-enjoy-sex">‘Social Emotional Learning’ Guru May Have Concealed Sex Abuse While Pushing ‘Young Teens’ To Enjoy Sex</a>
Audry Nafziger, a career sex crimes prosecutor in Southern California, said the license forfeiture could be designed to allow her to continue to pressure teens into sexual conversation with fewer legal requirements for reporting abuse. Freed&#8217;s SEL group is still running programs on public school campuses and is now paying students $10 to come to them.
“Now that she’s surrendered it, she’s now likely not subject to any hearing from [the California Board of Behavioral Sciences] since all they have to hold over her is her license,&#8221; Nafziger told The Daily Wire, adding that &#8220;nobody gives up their license for nothing.&#8221;
Her license was set to expire on November 30, according to <a href="https://search.dca.ca.gov/details/2001/LMFT/19433/c14ac1c7f45e2775fdd36a9af9727c82">California records</a>, making the fact that she took action to switch her status to &#8220;inactive&#8221; before then highly unusual.
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<h1>Freed used social media to lure participants into her sessions, posting a picture of a child-like drawing along with a prompt inviting children to an &#8220;all genders connect group.&#8221; &#8220;Do you know a teenager 14-19 who wants to discuss deep topics around sexuality and relationship?&#8221; Freed wrote.</h1>
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The move could also allow her to function with impunity moving forward. &#8220;She won&#8217;t be a mandated reporter anymore. It’s a great asset for her, she can now do whatever she does without having to report on anyone,&#8221; Nafziger said.
Freed, who has been feted by celebrities like Prince Harry and Gwyneth Paltrow and currently has a best-selling self-help book, says she was helping students with their emotional health. But Freed&#8217;s own writings suggested that she was coaching young teen girls to be more sexual in order to relive experiences from her own youth.
&#8220;I had great sexual experiences with guys in junior high and high school, I had beautiful lovers, they were amazing, that was very lucky. And then I was with women too,” she said on the podcast Sex With Emily, where she was pictured surrounded by sex toy paraphernalia.
&#8220;Right now, redesign your first sexual experience&#8230; where would you be, who would you be with, who would know about it, who wouldn&#8217;t know about it. You just really get into all the possibilities to make it the most incredible initiatory experience you could ever have,” she continued.
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&#8220;I had just finished my PhD in psychology and what my 400-page dissertation was on is teen girls and sex&#8230; It led me to realize what&#8217;s missing in education is what&#8217;s missing for girls and guys – I created this program called Sexual Wisdom,&#8221; she said. (It was billed to parents as Relationship Wisdom.)
In that <a href="https://www.proquest.com/docview/305228969/abstract" target="_blank" rel="noopener">dissertation</a>, reviewed by The Daily Wire, Freed repeatedly says she looks at sex by young teens as a religious experience and views herself as a priestess ushering young girls through it, even fantasizing about how the boyfriends of young girls “taste.”
“Entering junior high school… we slowly progressed to genital play, where we delighted in the miracles of our mutual arousal,” she recalled of her own youth. “When we were joined as one, my skin and sex were holy places, and he was the ‘body of Christ.'&#8221;
The 2003 dissertation set out to establish the need for programs like Social Emotional Learning (SEL), which has since swept K-12 schools. In it, Freed published transcribed interviews with four girls talking about their experiences as young teens. She hoped to paint a portrait of a utopia where &#8220;young teens&#8221; had lots of great sex, with sharing the details with an adult mentor (her) an essential component. Instead, all four girls described situations they regretted, despite Freed repeatedly trying to get them to talk about their &#8220;pleasure.&#8221;
The first of the four teens described, at 13, getting “really drunk” before an “older” guy “took my virginity.” She did not want to have sex, but “he was very aggressive,” she said. The man left the bedroom and had sex with the girl’s friend, and is now in jail for killing someone, she said.
Freed asked the girl whether she got “pleasure” out of the experience and said, “So it sounds like, in your mind, sex is a great thing and a wonderful thing.”
Another teen described being raped by a 19-year-old when she was 15 and drunk at a party. “Were you aware of your own desire?” Freed asked the girl. “Did he know what he was doing? Like was he a good lover?&#8221;
The interviews did not support the argument she wanted to make — that teens were having great sex at a young age and wanted to talk about it with an adult — but Freed said they actually meant the opposite, but they were &#8220;reluctant to admit their desires&#8221; and &#8220;it was as if their right to have help was a new idea to them.&#8221;
All four of the interviewees disclosed apparent crimes to Freed — either outright rape or a sex crime based on age differential. But there is no indication Freed reported the incidents to authorities, which would be a violation of her mandatory reporter responsibilities.
Freed, who did not return a request for comment for this story, in August would state only that she followed all rules on reporting sexual abuse.
“As a mandated reporter I have followed all rules and regulations in reporting child abuse,&#8221; Freed said in an email. &#8220;All cases are confidential.”
Nafziger, the prosecutor, said her dissertation makes it &#8220;pretty clear she wasn’t interested in truly helping these girls.&#8221;
“As a licensed social worker she’s a mandatory reporter,&#8221; Nafziger said. &#8220;If an underage girl tells you she’s been raped, especially by force, you don’t put it in your dissertation and try to convince her it was actually a positive experience. You report it to the authorities.”
“People confide in her because of her status, and her dissertation makes it pretty clear that she wasn’t interested in truly helping these girls, she just wanted to brainwash them that being raped was a good thing,” she said. “I think the relevant question for today is under the guise of her nonprofit, how many conversations has she had with young people who had been sexually assaulted, and how many of those has she provided to law enforcement? Any?”
One teen girl who was paid for her involvement in AHA, who The Daily Wire is referring to only as Maria, said that Freed pressured her to masturbate and engage in lesbian sex. She’d say she wasn’t interested in women, &#8220;and Jennifer would question that and say, ‘Why can’t you be both?’” she told The Daily Wire.
Maria was attacked in a sexual manner by her teacher, and told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-abused-as-teen-says-schools-social-emotional-learning-guru-pressed-her-to-drop-charges-because-her-teacher-assailant-was-black">The Daily Wire</a> that Freed pressured her not to press charges. Freed allegedly told the girl that she’d be contributing to the over-incarceration of black men if she came forward with allegations against her black teacher — she said Freed wanted to personally host a “restorative justice” session instead of criminal proceedings. Maria refused Freed’s entreaty, and the teacher was convicted of battery and fired, and Maria received nearly a $1 million settlement. (Freed denied the allegations without explanation.)
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Nafziger said Freed&#8217;s suggestion amounted to abuse in itself. “Putting a victim of a sexual assault in a room with the offender and trying to make them work it out is completely abusive,” she said of the proposal for “restorative justice.”
SEL often brings students into contact with adults for intimate discussions, sometimes touting that former gang members and the likes have a unique ability to relate to youths. AHA has hired staff off of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiZrU8AHw2U" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Craigslist</a>, it says.
Freed used social media to lure participants into her sessions, posting a picture of a child-like drawing along with a prompt inviting children to an &#8220;all genders connect group.&#8221;
&#8220;Do you know a teenager 14-19 who wants to discuss deep topics around sexuality and relationship?&#8221; Freed wrote.
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Just this month, AHA posted on Instagram that it would <a href="https://www.instagram.com/aha_sb/">pay youth $10 </a>to come to its &#8220;Ally&#8221; or &#8220;Guys Group&#8221; sessions at Santa Barbara Middle School and Santa Barbara High School. The payments further suggest that the adults want to spend time with the children more than the children want to spend time with them.
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‘Social Emotional Learning’ Pioneer Surrenders Therapist License Following Evidence Of Teen Sexual Abuse Coverup

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Crime

Editor’s note: The below article contains graphic descriptions of sexual acts, and may be offensive to some readers.
Susanna Gibson, a candidate for the Virginia statehouse who solicited money from people online for her to perform sex acts on video with her husband, may have violated Virginia&#8217;s prostitution law, two attorneys in the state told The Daily Wire.
Virginia <a href="https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter8/section18.2-346/">law</a> states that &#8220;any person who, for money or its equivalent &#8230; engages in sexual intercourse&#8221; or other sexual acts with another person &#8220;is guilty of prostitution, which is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor.&#8221;
Shawn M. Cline, a former prosecutor and defense attorney in Virginia Beach who represents people charged with sex crimes, said in his view it&#8217;s a &#8220;chargeable offense.&#8221;
“The statute is very clear, you cannot for money or its equivalent perform sex acts,&#8221; Cline told The Daily Wire. &#8220;It doesn’t matter who&#8217;s paying for the act, if it&#8217;s an observer or the recipient. You can&#8217;t receive money.”
“It would definitely be a chargeable offense,” Cline said.
In the videos that were initially streamed on Chaturbate, Gibson states that she&#8217;s raising money for a &#8220;good cause,&#8221; and asks viewers to send her &#8220;tokens&#8221; to perform certain sex acts or even to urinate on camera. &#8220;Y’all can watch me pee if you tip me and some tokens,” Gibson can be heard saying in the graphic videos. “Again, I’m raising money for a good cause.”
The website of the law firm <a href="https://vacrimlawyers.com/practice-areas/prostitution/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ScrofanoLaw</a>, which defends Virginians charged with sex crimes, says &#8220;Virginia is among the most stringent states when it comes to prosecuting prostitution crimes&#8221; and that &#8220;the definition of prostitution, according to § 18.2-346 of the Virginia Law Code applies to any person who, for money or its equivalent, agrees to participate in sexual acts.&#8221;
Gretchen Taylor Pousson, a former public defender in Virginia who is now a defense attorney with ScrofanoLaw, said she thinks Gibson violated the statute &#8220;because the token would be equivalent to money. And she is actually performing these acts upon another person.&#8221;
In one video, Gibson described a plan to trick hotel employees into seeing her naked against their will, in order to get a sexual thrill for herself and her viewers.
“Tell him I want a bottle and have them bring it into the room and we’ll be naked and they can all watch. It’s gonna be great. I’m definitely a slut,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-susanna-gibson-aka-hotwifeexperience-the-dem-candidate-who-also-has-an-x-rated-chaturbate-profile" target="_blank" rel="noopener">she said</a>. &#8220;In order to leave the door cracked I need 500 tokens from 10 of y’all. 10. Otherwise not worth it. Don’t get me kicked out from my favorite hotel y’all.”
Pousson said that could violate statutes such as indecent exposure. That statute covers someone who &#8220;intentionally makes an obscene display of her person in any public place or place where others are present.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it would be. It would all depend on how the court determines a &#8216;place where others are present,&#8217; but given that she caused them to come in, I think that could easily be argued by the Commonwealth,&#8221; Pousson told The Daily Wire.
Henrico County Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Shannon L. Taylor, who like Gibson is a Democrat, did not return a request for comment asking if her office was considering charges against Gibson.
Less than twenty minutes after Taylor’s office read The Daily Wire’s email, Gibson&#8217;s attorney, Daniel Watkins, called to say he had learned that The Daily Wire was working on a story through a source he would not disclose. He declined to comment on the record.
Taylor did not respond to a followup request on whether she had alerted Gibson.
The videos she streamed to Chaturbate took place throughout September 2022, shortly after she launched her House of Delegates campaign. The last one on that platform was posted on September 30, meaning the statute of limitations would expire in two weeks.
Gibson has not dropped out of the race since her video exploits were exposed by The Washington Post, The Daily Wire, and other media on Monday. The leader of the Virginia Senate, Democrat L. Louis Lucas, said the behavior by Gibson was all the more reason to give her money — and without evidence, accused Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) of somehow being involved.
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Today Glenn Youngkin’s team leaked videos of <a href="https://twitter.com/SusannaSGibson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SusannaSGibson</a> to try to embarrass and humiliate her and they failed completely. 
Now we are going to make this the biggest fundraising day of her campaign.
Retweet and donate here:<a href="https://t.co/LrP5VhDsb1">https://t.co/LrP5VhDsb1</a>
&mdash; L. Louise Lucas (@SenLouiseLucas) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenLouiseLucas/status/1701339502977909062?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Many Democrats said that the scandal amounted to nothing precisely because, they asserted, her conduct had not crossed the line of criminality.
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In other news, Susanna Gibson did nothing illegal and Republicans are condoning revenge porn. Also hilarious considering the person they are going to nominate for President was found liable for sexual abuse.
Totally fine for today&#39;s GOP <a href="https://t.co/ssq2OHQHGF">https://t.co/ssq2OHQHGF</a>
&mdash; Michael A (@PoliticsMichael) <a href="https://twitter.com/PoliticsMichael/status/1701581720007434310?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 12, 2023</a></blockquote>
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She had consensual sex with her husband. Nothing she did was illegal. What is illegal, on the other hand, is the GOP operative who brought this to your attention in order for you all to disseminate revenge porn. <a href="https://t.co/GAGQM6uq4g">pic.twitter.com/GAGQM6uq4g</a>
&mdash; Maya Contreras (@mayatcontreras) <a href="https://twitter.com/mayatcontreras/status/1701347266546770272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 11, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Gibson has called the act of posting the videos she herself posted for the world to see &#8220;an illegal invasion of my privacy.&#8221;
The New York Times characterized it as a &#8220;leak,&#8221; even though news outlets were only informing readers of her conduct, not linking to the videos.
Gibson posted her videos to a site where she had more than 5,700 followers. She said in the videos that she wanted as large of an audience as possible, saying &#8220;And I love that they’re all watching me getting f&#8212;-ed right now and it turns me the hell on&#8230;. Yeah I want to see you on Checkmates too.”
In exchange for her performing specific sex acts, she solicited monetary “tokens” from viewers, where 100 tokens is worth approximately $5. “Y’all can watch me pee if you tip me and some tokens,” she said. “Again, I’m raising money for a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-susanna-gibson-aka-hotwifeexperience-the-dem-candidate-who-also-has-an-x-rated-chaturbate-profile">good cause</a>.”
Correspondence viewed by The Daily Wire shows the Associated Press was tipped off about the pornographic content on September 5, but chose not to do anything with the story. It did, however, make Gibson aware of the videos, which she appears to have had taken down in the days after the Associated Press alerted her that they had been discovered.
The outlet did not cover the videos until September 12, after it had already been reported by others.

Virginia Democrat Who Raised Money By Selling Sex Acts Could Be Charged With Prostitution, Lawyers Say

Sex Crimes

Editor&#8217;s note: The below article contains graphic descriptions of sexual acts, and may be offensive to some readers.
A Democrat candidate for state office in Virginia appears to have been raising money for a &#8220;good cause&#8221; by performing graphic sex acts online, where she told viewers she liked &#8220;being choked&#8221; and said they could watch her urinate for the right price, according to material reviewed by The Daily Wire.
Susanna Gibson, who is running for a seat in the narrowly divided Virginia statehouse, was as recently as last year posting as &#8220;HotWifeExperience&#8221; on the website Chaturbate, where men could pay tokens to get her to perform specific sex acts. In one video recorded shortly after she launched her campaign last year, she told her husband, &#8220;I&#8217;ll let you f&#8212; me in the a&#8211; doggy style in a private room if someone wants to pay. That&#8217;s the deal.&#8221;
In another video, she appears to say that for the right price, viewers could watch her urinate. &#8220;Y&#8217;all can watch me pee if you tip me and some tokens,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Again, I&#8217;m raising money for a good cause.&#8221;
&#8220;I like being choked. I like being hit. I do,&#8221; she said in one video posted exactly a year ago, on September 11, 2022.
&#8220;I just want a private room with somebody filming their c&#8212; so I can come looking at it, Jesus Christ,&#8221; she said. &#8220;Oh God I want to f&#8212;ing get railroaded by all of you.&#8221;
She said for 500 tokens, she would order room service in a hotel and cause the delivery person to see her naked, saying: &#8220;I&#8217;m definitely a slut&#8230; In order to leave the door cracked I need 500 tokens.&#8221;
Gibson said she has had sex with three men in one day, and &#8220;don&#8217;t tell my husband he was the third. I would say ethically nonmonogamous but I guess that three in one day was not.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m raising money for a really good cause and it&#8217;s my birthday so give me more please because it&#8217;s my birthday night and yeah so then I f&#8212;ed him in his house for the first time and then later that night I f&#8212;ed my husband,&#8221; she said.
In the videos, she appears to be filmed with her husband, lawyer John David Gibson, who ensured that the raunchiest acts were reserved for the biggest spendings, saying &#8220;no anal outside of private.&#8221;
She can be heard in the videos saying &#8220;he doesn&#8217;t like sharing&#8221; her with other men, with Gibson saying, &#8220;Sometimes I have to though. She makes me.&#8221;
Her husband gave <a href="https://www.vpap.org/candidates/445726/donor/452256/?start_year=all&amp;end_year=all&amp;contrib_type=all" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.vpap.org/candidates/445726/donor/452256/?start_year%3Dall%26end_year%3Dall%26contrib_type%3Dall&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1694554218943000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1gX7Oy8eoKsRtFmQJF3ELH">$5,000</a> to her campaign around the time the videos were filmed, according to public filings in Virginia.
The <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/09/11/susanna-gibson-sex-website-virginia-candidate/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/09/11/susanna-gibson-sex-website-virginia-candidate/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1694554218943000&amp;usg=AOvVaw20t4xsLCGMDqqf_ZXkGPni">Washington Post</a> first reported the story on Monday afternoon, and The Daily Wire independently obtained the videos.
Gibson did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire asking whether the &#8220;good cause&#8221; was her House of Delegates campaign. But she appears to acknowledge to The Washington Post that the videos are authentic, claiming that they are &#8220;an illegal invasion of my privacy designed to humiliate me and my family.”
Though she posted the videos online for her nearly 6,000 followers on Chaturbate, she now claims it to be a &#8220;sex crime&#8221; to shed light on the existence of her account.
“My political opponents and their Republican allies have proven they’re willing to commit a sex crime to attack me and my family because there’s no line they won’t cross to silence women when they speak up,” Gibson told the Washington Post.
Gibson appeared alongside U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) on Saturday. She is <a href="https://www.susannagibson.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.susannagibson.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1694554218943000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1pGKQ2hB7XSy0drbOd9dPY">running</a> against Republican David Owen in the November 7 election, in which early voting begins September 22.
Her campaign platform says she is a public health expert who is concerned about Republican efforts at purportedly &#8220;punishing [teachers] with teacher reporting tip lines or videos in the classrooms to monitor them.&#8221; Her campaign website features several pictures of her and her husband with their two children, and on social media she has stated that she has a &#8220;family-friendly seal of approval.&#8221;
She is running for a swing seat in Henrico County in suburban Richmond.
She is endorsed by Moms Demand Action, a group that has pushed far-left candidates in Virginia schools and elsewhere. Gibson&#8217;s largest campaign donor is the Clean Virginia Fund, according to records.

Meet Susanna Gibson, AKA ‘HotWifeExperience,’ The Dem Candidate Who Also Has An X-Rated Chaturbate Profile

Virginia Democrats and Loudoun County&#8217;s George Soros-backed prosecutor are lashing out at Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) over his <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/glenn-youngkin-grants-absolute-pardon-to-loudoun-dad-arrested-at-school-board-meeting">Sunday pardon of Scott Smith</a>, whose daughter was raped in school and who the prosecutor, Buta Biberaj, personally sought to put in jail.
Biberaj said Youngkin&#8217;s pardon &#8220;is an unprecedented and inappropriate intervention into an active legal case,&#8221; and said he was taking action &#8220;not for justice but for political gain.&#8221; Scott Surovell, the vice chairman of the Democrat Senate Caucus, said Youngkin&#8217;s pardon was an abandonment of &#8220;law and order&#8221; intended to &#8220;help his failing presidential ambitions.&#8221;
Smith was set to face his second trial this month for the crime of cursing at a leftist activist who said she didn&#8217;t believe his daughter was raped. Smith was arrested after a police officer grabbed him from behind as he was exchanging words with activist Jackie Schworm, leading to a televised tussle with police. But the resisting arrest charge was thrown out, meaning Smith was being prosecuted solely for an angry exchange of words.
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Gov. Youngkin is once again using Loudoun County for his political gain. My full statement below. <a href="https://t.co/fPYEksC93T">pic.twitter.com/fPYEksC93T</a>
&mdash; Buta Biberaj (@ButaBiberaj) <a href="https://twitter.com/ButaBiberaj/status/1700983375153205358?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Despite Smith having committed no apparent crime, police apprehended him from behind, saying his body language suggested that it might escalate. They bloodied him and kneeled on his chest as he shouted, &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe.&#8221;
Youngkin&#8217;s pardon stated that his office determined Smith committed no crime, and called into question the &#8220;integrity of the prosecution.&#8221;
State Delegate Candi Mundon King, a black Democrat representing Stafford and Prince William Counties, said on X: &#8220;Didn&#8217;t law enforcement make these charges&#8230; Guess he doesn&#8217;t &#8216;Back the blue&#8217; as much as we thought.&#8221;
Biberaj ran on a platform lamenting &#8220;overincarceration&#8221; and has refused to prosecute many misdemeanors. Democrats, claiming to want to stop people from being arrested for minor crimes in schools, even passed a <a href="https://lis.virginia.gov/cgi-bin/legp604.exe?201+sum+HB257=">law</a> that &#8220;Eliminates the requirement that school principals report to law enforcement certain enumerated acts that may constitute a misdemeanor offense.&#8221;
When it came to a parent whose lived experience posed a threat to Democrats&#8217; effort to pass a transgender bathroom policy, however, Biberaj personally took Smith&#8217;s case and sought jail time. He was denied a jury because it was a misdemeanor, and he was convicted. A judge threw out the resisting arrest charge after Smith appealed, and threw Biberaj off the case for apparent conflict of interest.
But the government kept fighting Smith, forcing him to head towards a second trial for disorderly conduct. A judge was brought out of retirement from neighboring, deep-blue Fairfax County who ruled that under the “peculiar” language of Virginia’s disorderly conduct statute, Smith arguably committed disorderly conduct by cursing at Schworm because it could “incite” her to violence—even though that interpretation would seemingly mean the leftist activist was guilty of the same crime.
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What kind of sick freak objects to pardoning a dad being charged for confronting the school board that covered up the anal rape of his daughter??? <a href="https://t.co/IRy5SYiz9r">https://t.co/IRy5SYiz9r</a>
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Judge Howe Brown, who was brought out of retirement from deep-blue Fairfax County to hear the case, suggested Smith might have <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/father-of-loudoun-rape-victim-dealt-another-blow-in-court-when-will-the-healing-begin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">deserved to be assaulted</a> for calling the activist Schworm a &#8220;b&#8212;,&#8221; saying, “I think it incites her to violence. I think he was lucky he didn’t get slapped.&#8221;
Smith told The Daily Wire this week that Schworm had just spoken with his daughter, who was in line to speak into a megaphone, before making a beeline over to him to say she didn&#8217;t believe her story and that she would destroy his plumbing business by attacking it on social media.
&#8220;It&#8217;s obvious&#8221; that Schworm — a member of a Facebook group called <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-teachers-target-parents-critical-race-theory-hacking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Anti-Racist Parents of Loudoun&#8221;</a> alongside Biberaj, and whose members plotted to destroy anyone who posed an obstacle to the transgender agenda in schools — intended to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/glenn-youngkin-grants-absolute-pardon-to-loudoun-dad-arrested-at-school-board-meeting" target="_blank" rel="noopener">prevent the daughter from telling her story</a> to the world, Smith said.
Her efforts were initially successful, with Smith&#8217;s arrest being used by the Department of Justice and media organizations to paint conservatives as a threat to school boards. The reason for his anger at the school board was unknown until The Daily Wire revealed it five months later, after the rapist attacked a second girl. The rapist was later convicted, but was not placed on the registered sex offender list because of an error by Biberaj.
Smith told The Daily Wire the pardon was necessary because there was no assurance of justice &#8220;anywhere in counties that are run by radical prosecutors.&#8221;

Scott Smith at the Loudoun County Courthouse / The Daily Wire

Democrats Lash Out At Youngkin For Pardoning Father Of Loudoun Rape Victim

George Soros

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Sunday granted an &#8220;absolute pardon&#8221; to the father who was arrested at a school board meeting after the superintendent lied about his daughter&#8217;s rape by a skirt-wearing boy.
The pardon says that in June 2021, Scott Smith &#8220;exercised his constitutional right to attend a public meeting of the Loudoun County School Board to observe the proceedings, during which time a community member threatened to spread false and malicious information about Mr. Smith&#8217;s business with the intent to damage his reputation.&#8221;
&#8220;After an ensuing verbal confrontation, Scott Thomas Smith was charged with Obstruction of Justice and Disorderly Conduct,&#8221; and Smith was quickly convicted, even though an appeals court later disqualified the prosecutor due to concerns about &#8220;the integrity of the prosecution,&#8221; the pardon continues.
&#8220;<a href="https://www.governor.virginia.gov/media/governorvirginiagov/governor-of-virginia/pdf/Scott-Thomas-Smith---Pardon.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WHEREAS</a> Scott Thomas Smith has been publicly and falsely accused of &#8216;domestic terrorism&#8217; and &#8216;hate crimes&#8217; for attempting to advocate for his daughter, a victim of sexual assault&#8230; I have decided it is just and appropriate to grant this ABSOLUTE PARDON that reflects Scott Thomas Smith&#8217;s factual innocence,&#8221; it concludes.
Smith&#8217;s story galvanized parents who were concerned that schools had sacrificed student safety and academic rigor for ideology. Youngkin&#8217;s pledge to be a voice for those parents helped usher him into office a month after The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> Smith&#8217;s story.
Democrat prosecutor Buta Biberaj bucked her typical soft-on-crime stances and personally argued to put Smith in jail for misdemeanor disorderly conduct. Smith was denied a jury because it was a misdemeanor in General District Court, and a judge quickly convicted him.
He appealed the ruling, and would have been entitled to a jury in appeals court. But the legal saga has dragged on for years, taking a financial and emotional toll on Smith, who says he&#8217;s grateful Youngkin allowed him to move on.
&#8220;I&#8217;m thankful that the Youngkin administration gave me an off-ramp to these charges that never should have happened,&#8221; Smith told The Daily Wire. &#8220;It&#8217;s kind of bittersweet, because I really looked forward to winning this in court. But unfortunately, our justice system is so screwed up right now that I didn&#8217;t feel that I could potentially get a fair shot in court.&#8221;
&#8220;That&#8217;s what should scare every American&#8211;is that I had to take this, because I could not trust our justice system,&#8221; Smith said.
As Smith&#8217;s legal saga dragged on, the same system that prosecuted Smith <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-jury-find-schools-spokesman-not-guilty-of-perjury" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acquitted</a> Loudoun County Public Schools spokesman Wayde Byard for perjury charges. The day Smith&#8217;s daughter was raped, Byard wrote an email to parents that falsely blamed Smith for police presence and falsely said that no students were in danger, even as the rapist remained on the loose.
The rapist was eventually convicted in juvenile court, but due to a mistake by Biberaj, will not be placed on the sex offenders registry.
Smith said that on the night of the June 2021 school board meeting, where school board members were discussing passing a policy to allow transgender students to use the restrooms of their choice, his daughter had intended to say through a megaphone how just a few weeks before, she had been raped in a school bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt.
&#8220;That&#8217;s why Jackie attacked us, was to stop [my daughter] from speaking,&#8221; he said, referring to Jackie Schworm, a radical Leftist who had just spoken to Smith&#8217;s daughter, then sought out Smith and threatened to use social media to ruin his business. A police officer grabbed Smith from behind, and a struggle ensued.
An appeals court said that the prosecutor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-throws-soros-backed-prosecutor-off-of-case-against-loudoun-rape-victims-father" target="_blank" rel="noopener">may have been biased</a>, but that the fact that he <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/father-of-loudoun-rape-victim-dealt-another-blow-in-court-when-will-the-healing-begin" target="_blank" rel="noopener">cursed at Schworm was enough to retry him</a>. Smith said that even if his appeal would have prevailed, &#8220;radical prosecutors&#8221; had already punished him by putting him through a years-long process.
&#8220;The damage has already been done,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;This process has been absolutely brutal, because it took away some of my family treasure that [could have gone to] my daughter&#8217;s situation.&#8221;
The media plastered around the world a picture of Smith being dragged away by police, and used him as a symbol of how angry conservative parents were supposedly disrupting school board meetings out of bigotry and ignorance. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/national-school-board-association-at-risk-of-total-collapse-following-letter-comparing-parents-to-domestic-terrorists" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National School Boards Association</a> likened him to a domestic terrorist in a letter that the Biden administration used to mobilize anti-terrorism forces against parents.
Only The Daily Wire bothered to ask Smith whether he had a good reason to be mad at the school board. It turned out that not only had his daughter been raped, and the superintendent lied about it, but that the school system <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">kept the rapist in school</a>, where he sexually assaulted a second girl.
&#8220;They villainized me and my family from the minute my daughter reported that she was sexually assaulted, pretty much until present time,&#8221; he said.
Biberaj wanted &#8220;to make an example out of me to scare people from speaking out. And quite frankly, it worked,&#8221; Smith said, noting that far fewer parents have turned out to school board meetings and spoken out since his arrest.
He said his next legal step will be to sue the prosecutor for misconduct, and possibly the National School Boards Association.
The pardon from Youngkin, who enjoys high favorability ratings in what was previously considered a blue state, continues a fulfillment of his campaign promise to focus on parental rights in education. On Tuesday, he will hold a &#8220;Parents Matter&#8221; conversation in Loudoun&#8211;at Cornerstone Chapel, a church that was placed on an enemies list by a group of liberal activists called the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/northern-virginia-leftists-secretly-plotted-to-guard-democrats-from-trans-rape-fallout" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Loudoun Love Warriors</a>.
The church&#8217;s pastor said it&#8217;s &#8220;ironic that those who espouse ‘tolerance’ the most, are actually some of the most intolerant people toward those of us with different views and values.”
A member of the Love Warriors was arrested on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftist-activist-arrested-in-loudoun-county-after-threatening-to-burn-down-historic-site-sheriff-says" target="_blank" rel="noopener">felony charges</a> this month. Biberaj has not responded questions about whether she intends to drop charges, prosecute, or recuse herself.

Glenn Youngkin Grants ‘Absolute Pardon’ To Loudoun Dad Arrested At School Board Meeting

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Democrat state lawmakers are more unified and committed to a leftist ideology than Republican lawmakers are to conservatism, according to a report from the Conservative Political Action Conference.
Republicans voted for conservative policies 77% of the time, while Democrats voted for liberal policies 87% of the time, according to the <a href="https://www.digital.cpac.org/foundation/centers-legislative-accountability">analysis</a> of all 7,400 lawmakers in the 50 statehouses during last year&#8217;s legislative sessions.
The study by CPAC&#8217;s affiliated Center for Legislative Accountability concluded that Democrats were more likely to &#8220;stick together&#8221; on issues important to the party&#8217;s base, while Republicans &#8220;broke apart.&#8221;
&#8220;Republicans run on conservative promises, but after they win more of them abandon the tough votes on key conservative policies when compared to Democrats whose first rule is to stick together,” the group said. “Our analysis shows how moderate Republicans broke apart on key issues like parental choice in education, securing strong voter ID, or putting a stop to COVID mandates.”
The analysis found a mismatch between the desires of the populace and how state representatives acted.
Ranking among the 10 states with the most liberal Republican lawmakers were Mississippi, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Idaho. That&#8217;s despite Republicans holding strong majorities in those legislatures, and the state&#8217;s population overwhelmingly voting for Republican in election after election.
As a group, Mississippi Republican lawmakers had an average conservative score of 58%, making them less conservative than Republicans in New Jersey, Maryland, and Oregon. The state where Republicans voted most conservative was a swing state: Wisconsin.
The findings emphasize that the states advancing conservative legislation are not doing it because of legislative dominance, but because of committed policymaking. Florida, for example, is a traditionally swing state in presidential elections, and Republicans don&#8217;t hold nearly the percentage of seats in the state legislature that they do in places like Wyoming. But those Florida Republicans take full advantage of the majority they do have, with a conservative score of 89%.
<div class="image"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" class="alignnone size-large wp-image-616095" src="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/cpac-746x576.jpeg" alt="CPAC rankings of state Republicans' conservatism" width="746" height="576" srcset="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/cpac-746x576.jpeg 746w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/cpac-300x232.jpeg 300w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/cpac-768x593.jpeg 768w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/cpac-1536x1186.jpeg 1536w, https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2023/09/cpac.jpeg 1920w" sizes="(max-width: 746px) 100vw, 746px" /></div>
Looking at state lawmakers regardless of party, West Virginia was rated the most conservative in the country. Not only did Republicans dominate the chamber, but they were also complemented by Democrats who were not particularly liberal.
The most-radical Democrats were in New Jersey, where they had a 0% conservative ranking, followed by Colorado, Wisconsin, Illinois, Maine, and Oregon, at 1%.
A 2021 analysis by The Daily Wire, which relied in part on CPAC&#8217;s categorizations of state bills, led to similar conclusions.
“The red states are actually the worst” when it comes to moderate Republicans, Andrew Roth, president of the State Freedom Caucus Network, told The Daily Wire in 2021. “A lot of Democrats know they can’t get elected with a D next to their name, so they put an R next to their name and then vote like liberals.”
The exact reason for the failure of the most conservative state legislatures to behave like conservatives is unknown. Candidates who are more apolitical tend to run as Republicans, since it&#8217;s the only way to win elections in deep red pockets of the country. The result is that statehouses in 2022 follow a similar pattern as local school boards: Often liberal even in conservative places, with few voters paying enough attention to local politics to notice.
Activists say that if the goal is conservative policy rather than just winning elections, voters and big donors alike should shift their focus from congressional seats and the presidency to state laws in red states, where they can notch wins and show the rest of the nation the result of conservative policies.
“Conservatives need to get real that maybe spending all this money on congressional races to get one vote that doesn’t actually affect policy is not nearly as meaningful as spending money in states where the money goes further and they can actually implement policy,” Thomas Bradbury, CPAC&#8217;s director of policy and advocacy, said.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/19-statehouses-have-bigger-republican-majorities-than-florida-this-group-is-making-sure-they-act-like-it">19 Statehouses Have Bigger Republican Majorities Than Florida. This Group Is Making Sure They Act Like It.</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-did-wyoming-kill-school-choice-deep-red-states-often-dont-act-like-it-data-shows">Why Did Wyoming Kill School Choice? Deep-Red States Often Don’t Act Like It, Data Shows</a>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/why-legislatures-in-the-deep-red-states-that-sent-romney-and-cheney-to-washington-vote-like-liberals">Why Legislatures In The Deep-Red States That Sent Romney And Cheney To Washington ‘Vote Like Liberals’</a>
How conservative were the Republicans in your statehouse in 2022?
1. Wisconsin: 94% 
2. Michigan: 93% 
3. New Hampshire: 92% 
4. California: 91% 
5. Iowa: 90% 
6. Maine: 89% 
7. Colorado: 89% 
8. Florida: 89% 
9. North Carolina: 89% 
10. Pennsylvania: 87% 
11. West Virginia: 87% 
12. Georgia: 86% 
13. Ohio: 86% 
14. Kentucky: 86% 
15. Montana: 84% 
16. Tennessee: 84% 
17. Texas*: 83% 
18. Delaware: 82% 
19. Oklahoma: 81% 
20. Arizona: 81% 
21. Kansas: 80% 
22. Arkansas*: 79% 
23. Alabama: 78% 
24. Washington: 78% 
25. Minnesota: 78% 
26. Louisiana: 77% 
27. Missouri: 77% 
28. South Carolina: 77% 
29. Massachusetts: 75% 
30. Indiana: 75% 
31. New York: 74% 
32. Vermont: 74% 
33. Rhode Island: 74% 
34. Utah: 74% 
35. North Dakota*: 73% 
36. Virginia: 73% 
37. Illinois: 72% 
38. New Mexico: 71% 
39. Nevada*: 70% 
40. Idaho: 68% 
41. South Dakota: 68% 
42. Oregon: 68% 
43. Wyoming: 66% 
44. Maryland: 65% 
45. New Jersey: 59% 
46. Mississippi: 58% 
47. Alaska: 57% 
48. Connecticut: 54% 
49. Hawaii: 26%

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