Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has moved to subpoena Loudoun County Public Schools for an internal report they commissioned investigating their handling of a rape by a skirt-wearing boy in a girls bathroom, the latest in a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-attorney-general-sets-his-sights-on-another-woke-school-district-after-magnet-school-turns-away-from-merit" target="_blank" rel="noopener">series of moves</a> by his office that could bring northern Virginia&#8217;s school districts, which have openly flouted the Republican administration, to heel.
The school system withheld the report, which they paid a law firm to write, despite its stated purpose being accountability. After The Daily Wire broke the story of the <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">rape coverup</a> and its most far-left member resigned, the board selected a moderate Republican, Jeff Morse, as its chairman — perhaps in an attempt to fend off criticism that the board’s commitment to leftist politics had led to a rape coverup and subsequent sexual assault of a second girl.
However, Morse joined Democrats in voting to continue to conceal the report. On Friday, the Loudoun County Republican Committee voted to censure and cut ties with Morse as a result.
The same day, the D.C. area&#8217;s <a href="https://wjla.com/news/crisis-in-the-classrooms/lcps-subpoena-sexual-assault-investigation-virginia-attorney-general-jason-miyares-loudoun-county-public-schools-release-the-report-investigation-vote-school-board-scott-ziegler-daniel-smith-superintendent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ABC affiliate</a> reported that Miyares had filed a motion for a subpoena for the report, which could show what LCPS knew about the rape and its aftermath. If the self-commissioned report amounts to a whitewash, it could also provide an interesting contrast to the results of a special grand jury probe commissioned by Miyares, which found egregious problems.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-school-board-was-informed-of-alleged-sexual-assault-the-day-it-happened-report" target="_blank" rel="noopener">All of the then-school board members</a>, Republican and Democrat, knew or should have known that then-Superintendent Scott Ziegler was lying when he told the board that he had no record of any assaults in bathrooms. Just weeks prior, Ziegler had sent an email to the board letting them know of the May 2021 bathroom assault, though it did not provide details.
None of the board members raised the issue in the moment — during a meeting where the board and superintendent were trying to dismiss parents’ criticism that a pending transgender bathroom policy could pose safety issues.
Morse was first elected to the school board in 2011, during a time when Loudoun was largely Republican, but when very few paid attention to school boards. Parent activists say many people who ran for school boards during that era, attaching themselves to whichever political party was most convenient, have not served as effective watchdogs against the politicization of schools.
When Republicans Glenn Youngkin and Miyares won their races for governor and attorney general shortly after the rape coverup was exposed by The Daily Wire, the pair called for an investigation into the school system. The school system repeatedly fought cooperating with the special grand jury that was convened, a report issued by the grand jury found.
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The grand jury released a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grand-jury-finds-virginia-school-bathroom-rape-handling-worse-than-known-rips-officials-intentional-amnesia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fact-finding report</a> that found egregious problems, including that a teacher walked into the bathroom during the rape and saw two children in one stall, but did nothing, and that even after the student was charged with rape, the school knew the rapist was harassing other girls, but merely had him write on a piece of paper that he would stop.
Yet when it was released, a joint statement attributed to Morse and Democrat vice chairman Ian Serotkin seemed to celebrate that the school system had escaped accountability, saying, “We are pleased that the Special Grand Jury’s extensive investigation found no evidence of criminal conduct on the part of anyone within LCPS, and not a single indictment was filed as a result of this lengthy process.”
The statement was embarrassing to the officials because the report, in fact, specified that the grand jury’s work was not over, and the next day, Ziegler and the school system’s spokesman were <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-superintendent-spokesman-criminally-indicted-in-rape-coverup" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indicted</a>.
The Loudoun <a href="https://loudoungop.com/censure-of-lcps-chairman-jeff-morse/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">GOP’s censure</a> of Morse faults him for all of these actions, saying, “Mr. Morse had foreknowledge of criminality by the LCPS Administration regarding both the existence and truthfulness of public communications related to the ongoing events.”
“The Loudoun County Republican Committee hereby formally censures and rescinds all endorsements of Mr. Morse. Such rescission includes immediate removal of all public statements of support towards Mr. Morse by the LCRC and prohibits Mr. Morse from any future verbal or written communications, statements, or affirmations of Republican support,” it said.
“LCRC is a staunch advocate for the rights and protections of all children&#8230; Student and parental rights are preeminent over those of all government institutions,” it continued. “Be it ordered, that&#8230; all mentions of Mr. Morse on the LCRC’s public-facing website be removed and archived with this notice of censure.”
Morse did not return a request for comment.

Glenn Youngkin Campaigns In Final Days Of Virginia Gubernatorial Election

Virginia AG To Subpoena Internal Report On Loudoun Rape Coverup, GOP Boots School Board Chair For Hiding It

Virginia AG Subpoenas Internal Report On Loudoun Rape Coverup, GOP Boots School Board Chair For Hiding It

Education

Glenn Youngkin

Loudoun County

Parental Rights in Education

U.S.

Virginia

A Virginia state lawmaker who went to jail for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and later married his 17-year-old victim is running in a special election to replace a congressman who died late last year, according to Federal Election Commission <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/H2VA04151/1672406/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">papers</a> filed Tuesday.
State Sen. Joe Morrissey&#8217;s entry in the race to succeed Rep. Don McEachin has raised eyebrows in a state where Democrats have battled the perception that they are soft on the sexualization of children, following controversies including the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-superintendent-spokesman-criminally-indicted-in-rape-coverup" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Loudoun County rape</a> and efforts to bring graphic sex education to young schoolkids.
Morrissey, a twice-disbarred lawyer, was indicted in 2014 on a slew of charges resulting from his alleged affair with a 17-year-old staffer. Charges against Morrissey, who was in his fifties at the time, included four felonies: supervisory indecent liberties with a minor, electronic solicitation of a minor, possession of child pornography, and distribution of child pornography, <a href="https://www.nbc12.com/story/25906280/grand-jury-indicts-del-joe-morrissey-for-relationship-with-teen/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NBC-12</a> reported.
The girl worked as a part-time clerk at his law office and had listed her age as 22 on her job application, but prosecutors believed that Morrissey knew she was younger when they had sex, the outlet said. He took a plea deal that resulted in a conviction for one misdemeanor count of contributing to the delinquency of a minor and six months in jail, the outlet <a href="https://www.nbc12.com/story/27615650/del-joe-morrissey-agrees-to-plea-deal-in-teen-sex-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The girl became pregnant and she and Morrissey got married.
Morrissey&#8217;s brush with the law won&#8217;t be the only issue to give pause to conservative parents. In 2020, he was the only Senate co-sponsor of a bill that could have caused parents to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/virginia-democrat-bill-would-criminally-prosecute-parents-who-dont-affirm-their-kids-as-transgender" target="_blank" rel="noopener">lose custody</a> of their children if they did not &#8220;affirm&#8221; their transgender identities. It redefined the term “abused or neglected child” to include one whose parent “inflicts… mental injury on the basis of the child’s gender identity or sexual orientation.”
This year, its House of Delegates sponsor, Elizabeth Guzman, described her intent to try again with a similar bill, explaining to local news that it would make it a crime not to affirm gender identity. Guzman told WJLA that “It could be a felony, it could be a misdemeanor.”
David Gordon, a Republican political consultant who founded the Virginia Project, said the prospect of Morrissey receiving a promotion shows that “child exploitation is not an obstacle for Democrats.”
“Given his history, I was very surprised to see him double down on the sexual exploitation of children by cosponsoring the notorious Guzman child abduction bill,” Gordon told The Daily Wire.
If Morrissey wins the congressional seat, it would not be his first special election victory. Following his conviction, Morrissey resigned his seat as a state delegate, triggering a special election&#8211;then entered that race as an independent and won, casting votes in the General Assembly while still serving time on work release.
In the 2019 election, he won a state Senate seat as a Democrat, and &#8220;has since made criminal justice reform a signature part of the legislation he has introduced,&#8221; the <a href="https://richmondfreepress.com/news/2022/jan/20/scandal-scarred-sen-joseph-joe-morrissey-pardoned-/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Richmond Free Press</a> reported. Former Democrat Gov. Ralph Northam pardoned Morrissey as one of his last acts in office this year, the paper said in January.
Morrissey did not return a request for comment.
Virginia’s Fourth Congressional District, centered around Richmond, is a heavily black and Democrat area where the winner of the Democrat primary will be the presumed winner of the congressional race. The Democratic Party will choose its nominee through a <a href="https://vademocrats.org/news/fourth-congressional-district-democratic-committee-releases-voting-details-for-december-20-2022-firehouse-primary/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;firehouse primary&#8221;</a> run by the party on December 20, where Democrats can vote at one of five locations, such as a union hall and a Baptist church. The special election will be February 21.
Alexsis Rodgers, chair of the Fourth Congressional District Democratic Committee, did not return a request for comment about Morrissey&#8217;s history.
Morrissey is known for being a maverick not only for his unconventional personal life, but also for his refusal to vote according to party orthodoxy, making him one of the more moderate Democrats in the Virginia Senate.

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Virginia Democrat, Jailed After Affair With Teen He Then Married, Seeks Open House Seat

Child Sex Abuse

Congress

House Democrats

The family of the second girl assaulted by a Virginia teen broke its silence Monday to say that her plight could have been avoided if not for the &#8220;ineptitude&#8221; of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-superintendent-spokesman-criminally-indicted-in-rape-coverup/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Loudoun County school officials</a> who kept the skirt-wearing assailant in school even after he was charged in an earlier bathroom rape.
The comments came after the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-superintendent-spokesman-criminally-indicted-in-rape-coverup" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indictment</a> of Loudoun County Public Schools spokesman Wayde Byard and former Superintendent Scott Ziegler for allegedly false statements.
The father of the first victim, Scott Smith, was thrust into the limelight after he was arrested at a June 22, 2021 school board meeting where Ziegler denied awareness of any bathroom rapes, despite having intimate knowledge of the attack on Smith&#8217;s daughter a month prior. But the second girl, who was dragged into an empty classroom, choked, and sexually assaulted in October 2021 at Broad Run High School, has remained silent publicly except for remarks at the assailant&#8217;s sentencing in court.
On Monday, her family issued a searing statement through their lawyer, Patrick Regan, saying that no school board members or officials had ever reached out to their daughter to ask how she was doing or express sympathy.
“With the release of the Grand Jury report, the public now knows what we have suspected since the start of this tragic event – that what happened to her on October 6, 2021 could have and should have been prevented,&#8221; the statement read.
&#8220;Over the last 14 months since our daughter was assaulted, not one member of the school board, LCPS administration, or even our local high school leadership has reached out to check on how she is doing, lend any type of support or even apologize for what we are going through as a family. That alone speaks volumes to what we have endured throughout this ordeal.&#8221;
The 15-year-old victim showed more courage than school officials when she reported the incident to the Sheriff&#8217;s Resource Officer, the family&#8217;s statement said.
Ziegler, who was fired last week, was indicted for allegedly making a false statement at the June 22, 2021 school board meeting. Byard was indicted for alleged felony perjury. Hours after the May 2021 bathroom rape, Byard wrote an email to parents&#8211;attributed to the school&#8217;s principal&#8211;that told them there was no threat to student safety that day, and that police were on campus to deal with an unruly parent. That was a reference to Smith, who came to the school after being told of his daughter&#8217;s assault, and was unhappy with the school&#8217;s handling of it. The email offered counseling to students who were traumatized by having to see police or Smith&#8211;a marked contrast to what the second victim&#8217;s family says it was offered.
Ziegler allegedly made his false comment about bathroom rapes as part of remarks intended to dismiss parental concerns about a transgender policy the school board wanted to pass. While the school board appeared to have its own reasons for hiding the incident, neither family wanted to come forward because of the sensitive and personal nature of their children&#8217;s ordeals. Ultimately, Smith refrained from explaining his reasons for being unruly at the school board meeting even after he was splashed on the front pages of leftist media outlets who were demonizing him.
He agreed to tell his story in The Daily Wire, which <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">broke the story of the rape coverup</a>, only when the second assault convinced him that the system wasn&#8217;t working.
Critics said the revelation that partisan school officials were willing to jeopardize student safety and lie to parents to push an ideological transgender agenda played a role in the election of Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, in November 2021. Youngkin and his attorney general, Jason Miyares, called for a special grand jury of citizens to investigate the school system&#8217;s conduct, which unsealed the indictments Monday.
The grand jury also issued a 91-page report last Monday, with Loudoun school board chairman Jeff Morse first saying he was &#8220;pleased&#8221; that the report was not accompanied by indictments, before <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-school-board-fires-superintendent-who-lied-about-bathroom-rape">firing</a> Ziegler the next day. Morse did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire last week.
The grand jury&#8217;s fact-finding report said that Loudoun officials had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grand-jury-finds-virginia-school-bathroom-rape-handling-worse-than-known-rips-officials-intentional-amnesia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;intentional amnesia&#8221;</a> when forced to testify, and that “We believe that throughout this ordeal LCPS administrators were looking out for their own interests instead of the best interests of LCPS.”

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Family Of Second Loudoun Victim Breaks Silence, Faults ‘Staggering’ Ineptitude, Lack Of Empathy

Family Of Second Loudoun Victim Breaks Silence, Faults 'Staggering' Ineptitude, Lack Of Empathy

Transgender

Two top officials of a Northern Virginia public school district were indicted Monday for their roles in the handling of a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-school-board-sues-to-shut-down-grand-jury-investigating-rape-cover-up/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bathroom rape</a> by a skirt-wearing boy after The Daily Wire revealed the apparent coverup last year, court documents unsealed Monday showed.
Former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-school-board-fires-superintendent-who-lied-about-bathroom-rape/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Loudoun County Superintendent Scott Ziegler</a> , who was fired last week, was indicted on three misdemeanor counts of false publication, conflict of interest-prohibited conduct, and penalizing an employee for court appearance. Spokesman Wayde Byard was indicted on a felony charge of perjury, court records show.
A week ago, a special grand jury released a 91-page report that confirmed the findings 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">October 2021 expose</a>, determining that Ziegler told a &#8220;bald-faced lie&#8221; when he dismissed concerns about a proposed transgender policy by denying that there had ever been any bathroom sex assaults&#8211;despite knowing of the attack on a ninth-grade girl just a month earlier.
The grand jury said Ziegler&#8217;s administration also concealed from the public and even the school board that the same boy went on to sexually assault another girl in a classroom, with school board members learning about it from a report in The Daily Wire. The grand jury findings painted a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grand-jury-finds-virginia-school-bathroom-rape-handling-worse-than-known-rips-officials-intentional-amnesia">devastating picture</a> and showed that “throughout this ordeal LCPS administrators were looking out for their own interests instead of the best interests of LCPS.”
When The Daily Wire asked Byard last week about the grand jury&#8217;s fact-finding report, he sent a statement attributed to school board chair Jeff Morse and vice chair Ian Serotkin that said they were “pleased” that the grand jury had not indicted anyone. The Daily Wire noted in a response to Byard that Attorney General Jason Miyares had pointedly said &#8220;the grand jury is still running,&#8221; but Byard did not clarify.
On Monday, Byard did not return a request for comment on his own indictment.
The school board <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-school-board-fires-superintendent-who-lied-about-bathroom-rape" target="_blank" rel="noopener">fired Ziegler</a> on Tuesday, a day after the grand jury report&#8211;but fired him &#8220;without cause,&#8221; apparently giving him a $350,000 golden parachute.
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An indictment for the misdemeanor of &#8220;false publication&#8221; said that &#8220;On or about June 22, 2021, [Ziegler] did unlawfully, knowingly, and willfully state, deliver or transmit by any means whatever to any publisher&#8230; any false and untrue statement, knowing the same to be false or untrue, concerning any person or corporation, with intent that the same shall be published.&#8221; June 22 was the date of the school board meeting, at which Ziegler also cited Time magazine to lecture parents that &#8220;we’ve heard it several times tonight from our public speakers but the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist.&#8221;
The two other counts related to Ziegler pertain to a different incident. They allege that Ziegler retaliated against Erin Brooks, a teacher who sued the school system alleging that the school district did not protect her from sexual assault by an elementary school student.
The indictment against Byard says he committed felony perjury by lying under oath on August 2, 2022. The indictment does not provide any further information, though the timeline suggests that it was in the course of testifying to the special grand jury, which was convened to look into LCPS&#8217; handling of the rape by the skirt-wearing boy, who has since been convicted.
Perjury is a <a href="https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter1/section18.2-10/">Class 5 felony</a>; according to Virginia code &#8220;For Class 5 felonies, a term of imprisonment of not less than one year nor more than 10 years, or in the discretion of the jury or the court trying the case without a jury, confinement in jail for not more than 12 months and a fine of not more than $2,500, either or both.&#8221; The law also says that &#8220;Upon the conviction of any person for <a href="https://law.lis.virginia.gov/vacode/title18.2/chapter10/section18.2-434/">perjury</a>, such person thereby shall be adjudged forever incapable of holding any office of honor, profit or trust under the Constitution of Virginia, or of serving as a juror.&#8221;
The grand jury&#8217;s report suggested that LCPS placed a heavy emphasis on spinning the public, putting Byard in an outsized role. An email sent hours after the May 2021 rape, attributed to the school&#8217;s principal, claimed that student safety wasn&#8217;t jeopardized and that police were only present to deal with an unruly parent&#8211;a reference to the rape victim&#8217;s father. The grand jury found that in fact, that email was written by Byard and edited by Ziegler, and that the rapist was &#8220;missing and at-large&#8221; for hours during that period.
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The school system has generally ignored requests for information from The Daily Wire. A grand jury report revealed that when The Daily Wire informed Byard that it was about to break the story of the rape coverup, Byard&#8217;s boss ordered him and others to &#8220;TAKE NO ACTION.&#8221;
Miyares said in a statement that &#8220;The Office of the Attorney General will be prosecuting these cases and has no further comment on this matter.&#8221;
Ian Prior, chairman of the parents activist group Fight for Schools, said the indictments were a welcome development.
“We are beyond pleased that the families who were harmed by the egregious failures of the leadership of Loudoun County Public Schools, exacerbated by its repeated acts of deceit and dishonesty, will receive some measure of justice&#8230; parents repeatedly took slings and arrows from the media, local elected officials, and others in their own community, for speaking truth to power &#8211; despite that, they never backed down. Loudoun County should serve as a beacon of hope for the rest of the country.”
Brian Davison, a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Race-Bottom-Uncovering-Destroying-Education/dp/0063056720/">parent who exposed</a> other problems in LCPS years ago, said that LCPS has long operated with secrecy and dishonesty, and with Byard playing a key role. He said in 2015, Byard perjured himself while testifying about why he was not turning over information under the Freedom of Information Act.
Davison submitted a complaint to the police, who wrote in emails obtained by The Daily Wire that &#8220;Davison has extensive, detailed records and transcripts that support his claim&#8221; and that &#8220;It looks like Davison has a legitimate complaint.&#8221;
Davison told The Daily Wire &#8220;For over 7 years, the Loudoun school board has employed Wayde Byard as its primary spokesman despite knowing he perjured himself in a lawsuit against LCPS in 2015&#8230; Yet, Loudoun officials refused to prosecute and the school board kept Byard as a member of their mafia. With today&#8217;s news of Byard being prosecuted for yet another act of perjury, Loudoun residents can celebrate finally having a Governor and Attorney General willing to hold our corrupt officials accountable. With the threat of future prosecution, maybe reform can finally happen in LCPS.&#8221;
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Loudoun rapist

Loudoun Superintendent, Spokesman Criminally Indicted Following Rape Coverup

Crime

A Virginia school board fired its superintendent Tuesday night, more than a year after The Daily Wire revealed that he lied about the rape of a female student in a girls restroom even as he pushed for a controversial transgender bathroom policy, and one day after a special grand jury <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/judge-throws-soros-backed-prosecutor-off-of-case-against-loudoun-rape-victims-father/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">corroborated its findings</a>.
The Loudoun County school board voted unanimously to sack Scott Ziegler &#8220;without cause,&#8221; meaning that according to his contract, he will be paid a golden parachute worth some $350,000, according to <a href="https://www.loudounnow.com/news/loudoun-school-board-fires-ziegler/article_1c621fae-75db-11ed-bab0-0f68fa21ce96.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Loudoun Now</a>, which noted that the board had given Ziegler a $28,000 raise in July.
That’s despite a grand jury finding that, at a meeting a month after the rape in which board members debated a policy that would allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice, Ziegler dismissed safety concerns.
“To my knowledge we don’t have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms,” Ziegler said, although he was well aware that weeks earlier a skirt-wearing boy had been accused of raping a girl in a high school bathroom.
The principal of the high school where the attack occurred later testified that the superintendent’s statement was not true and another witness called it a “bald-faced lie,” according to the grand jury report.
The school system’s communications arm — which the grand jury revealed ordered staff to “TAKE NO ACTION” in response to The Daily Wire’s October 2021 inquiry informing it of its findings — similarly did not return a request for comment on the firing. The Daily Wire had also requested a copy of Ziegler’s employment contract and information on whether any action would be taken against Division Counsel Robert Falconi, who the grand jury also found at fault.
After the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/grand-jury-finds-virginia-school-bathroom-rape-handling-worse-than-known-rips-officials-intentional-amnesia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">grand jury report</a> was released Monday, a statement attributed to school board chair Jeff Morse and vice chair Ian Serotkin said they were “pleased” that the grand jury has not indicted anyone, even though the report painted a devastating picture and found that “throughout this ordeal LCPS administrators were looking out for their own interests instead of the best interests of LCPS.”
By Tuesday night at a meeting of the county’s other governing body, the Board of Supervisors, Democrats turned against their colleagues on the school board, with Supervisor Kristen Umstattd condemning school officials and board members for taking a “victory lap,” which she called “callous,” Loudoun Now reported.
“Let me say this as clearly as possible: Dr. Scott Ziegler needs to be fired,&#8221; Board of supervisors chair Phyllis Randall, a Democrat, said. &#8220;We had a young woman violently raped and another one assaulted, and this was for all intents and purposes, on his part, a coverup.&#8221;
Soon after, the school board, meeting separately, fired Ziegler.
On May 22, 2021, a male student wearing a skirt anally raped a ninth-grade girl in a girls bathroom at Stone Bridge High School, shortly before the school board was to vote on the transgender bathroom policy. The school did not disclose that incident publicly, nor a second sexual assault committed in a classroom by the same perpetrator on October 6. School board members only learned that the same person was behind both when 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">broke the story October 11</a>, the report said. The second assault “could have, and should have, been prevented,” grand jurors found.
The special grand jury, which was convened pursuant to an order from Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares, said it was &#8220;met with obfuscation, deflection, and obvious legal strategies designed to frustrate the special grand jury’s work,” and blamed Falconi.
“Unlike federal law, no Virginia statute explicitly addresses witness tampering, and the Virginia obstruction of justice statute does not cover this fact pattern. For those reasons, we were unable to consider an indictment against the LCPS division counsel,” the grand jury wrote.
Scott Smith, the father of the rape victim, told The Daily Wire that “Firing Ziegler is a good first step, though it should have been done in October of 2021. However, justice will be denied until everyone whose egregious and reckless conduct was detailed in that report is terminated as well. That includes the Deputy Superintendent, Division Counsel, school board members and the other unnamed actors whose actions put our child and everyone else’s child at risk.”
Of the grand jury report, he said “The grand jury report is thorough, however, it has no teeth holding anyone accountable by name at the moment.”
But he said that a criminal standard is not the only one that applies. “There’s gonna be civil lawsuits. We’ll be filing a Title IX lawsuit in Alexandria federal court,” he said.
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14 months ago, <a href="https://twitter.com/lukerosiak?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@lukerosiak</a> uncovered Loudoun County&#39;s coverup of sexual assaults by a skirt-wearing boy, and a top official ordered staff to ignore his claims. Tonight, the Loudoun County School Board fired superintendent Scott Ziegler after a grand jury confirmed his reporting. <a href="https://t.co/UHIXFhp3y5">pic.twitter.com/UHIXFhp3y5</a>
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Loudoun School Board Fires Superintendent Who Lied About Bathroom Rape

Grand Jury Finds Virginia School Bathroom Rape Handling Worse Than Known, Rips Officials’ ‘Intentional Amnesia’

Grand Jury Finds Virginia School Bathroom Rape Handling Worse Than Known, Rips Officials' ‘Intentional Amnesia’

Readers Pass

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Virginia</a> elementary school special education teacher said at a recent school board meeting that her autistic students &#8220;may experience gender queerness more than other students.”
Carly Hughes, who works in the Multi-Intervention Program for Students with Autism (<a href="https://longbranch.apsva.us/grade-levels/mipa/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MIPA</a>) at Long Branch Elementary School in Virginia, attended the Arlington County <a href="https://www.apsva.us/school-board-meetings/view-school-board-meetings/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">school board meeting</a> on October 13 to voice her opposition to Governor Glenn Youngkin&#8217;s proposed new policies pertaining to trans-identified students.
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‘Queer’ teacher at Long Branch Elementary in Arlington finds autistic students “experience gender queerness more than other students.”
They’re not gender queer, Carly, and they’re not trans.
Parents, this teacher might be nice as pie, but she’s a danger to your kids. <a href="https://t.co/dZxxda2UhA">pic.twitter.com/dZxxda2UhA</a>
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&#8220;The proposed model policy on trans students is just one of my many issues I have with Glenn Youngkin,&#8221; said Hughes, donning a t-shirt with the popular leftwing slogan &#8220;Say Gay&#8221; in rainbow letters and a black hat that says &#8220;trans people belong.&#8221;
According to Youngkin&#8217;s proposed <a href="https://doe.virginia.gov/support/gender-diversity/2022-model-policies-on-the-privacy-dignity-and-respect-for-all-students-town-hall.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">policies</a>, public schools will not be able to facilitate the social transition of a child without their parents’ written request. In addition, bathroom and locker room use is to be based on students’ sex, defined as the biological sex at birth. Student sports participation will also be sex-based, unless federal laws require otherwise.
The new policies are a reversal of the previous <a href="https://equalityvirginia.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/Transgender-Student-Model-Policies-March-2021-final.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">guidelines</a> implemented under the former governor, Democrat Ralph Northam. Those rules, which define transgender as a student’s “self-identifying term,” ask schools to consider not disclosing a student’s gender identity to the parents “if a student is not ready or able to safely share” it with their family.
The self-described &#8220;queer&#8221; special education teacher told the school board attendees, &#8220;I found that autistic students, the population I work with, may experience gender queerness more than other students,&#8221; in a clip that went viral on Twitter on Tuesday.
Children and adolescents on the autism spectrum are disproportionately represented among the large, newly emerging cohort of children claiming to be transgender. Over the past 10 years, there have been at least <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/zhanavrangalova/2017/11/15/growing-evidence-for-a-link-between-gender-dysphoria-and-autism-spectrum-disorders/?sh=6e3f4479153e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">nine studies</a> connecting Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and transgender identities. Rates of autistic traits in these studies range from five percent to 54% among those with gender dysphoria, significantly higher than among the general population.
Some researchers believe the percentage of young girls with autism who believe they’re experiencing gender dysphoria is actually higher, and that many of these females go undiagnosed. Up until recently, autism was considered a &#8220;boy&#8217;s diagnosis,&#8221; affecting males-to-females by a ratio of 4:1. Experts now believe that girls&#8217; autistic traits present differently, which may require a separate diagnostic criteria to detect. 
A recent <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35204992/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> published in Children in 2022 used a mathematical model to predict the true male-to-female ratio, which they estimated as being closer to 3:4. The study notes, &#8220;Eighty percent of females remain undiagnosed at age 18, which has serious consequences for the mental health of young women.&#8221;
Dr. Kenneth Zucker, a psychologist with 30 years of experience running the largest Canadian childhood gender clinic, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/psychologist-do-transgender-children-just-have-amanda-prestigiacomo" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believes</a> that many children identifying as transgender may do so because they are on the autism spectrum. The psychologist credits this confusion to the autistic tendency to fixate or obsess over a &#8220;special interest.&#8221;
“It is possible that kids who have a tendency to get obsessed or fixated on something may latch on to gender,” says Zucker. “Just because kids are saying something doesn’t necessarily mean you accept it, or that it’s true, or that it could be in the best interests of the child.”
Hughes, a recent <a href="http://www.umw.edu/commencement/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2022/05/2022-UMW-Commencement-Book.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">graduate</a> from the University of Mary Washington, a liberal arts school in Virginia, used her education background as an appeal to authority.
&#8220;In May, I graduated with my Master&#8217;s in special education,&#8221; said Hughes. &#8220;I did my master&#8217;s study on &#8216;queer inclusion in public schools&#8217; specifically because of the rise of anti-trans hate in public schools across this nation.&#8221;
&#8220;My study told me that including trans students in all spaces is best practice,&#8221; Hughes continued. &#8220;It also told me that there are trans kids of every age.&#8221;
A section on the Long Branch elementary school website is devoted to <a href="https://longbranch.apsva.us/equity/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">equity</a>, and last month the elementary school held an <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LBESLionPride/posts/pfbid02ZhFMfEUHLpPZSc9HqkmYYSrNDbGKRMH6MmJA6jfPCNkfe8RdJ7HHNVE4TnkXyJKDl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Implicit Bias training</a> for employees which, according to their Facebook page, was &#8220;1 of 3&#8221; sessions to be held this year.
A <a href="https://townhall.virginia.gov/L/Comments.cfm?GdocForumID=1953&amp;emci=b1142803-7d3e-ed11-a27c-281878b83d8a&amp;emdi=b7790232-7f3e-ed11-a27c-281878b83d8a&amp;ceid=26056731" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Public Comment Forum</a> to support or oppose the proposed policy was opened September 26 and ends October 26, and has amassed nearly 60,000 submissions so far.

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Elementary School Teacher Says Autistic Students ‘May Experience Gender Queerness More Than Other Students’

Elementary School Teacher Says Autistic Students 'May Experience Gender Queerness More Than Other Students'

LGBTQ

A Northern Virginia judge pulled a local prosecutor off the case against a father whose daughter was <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">raped in a public school restroom</a> in an incident that drew national attention.
The Loudoun County father, Scott Smith, is being prosecuted for disorderly conduct stemming from an angry outburst at a 2021 school board meeting. But Smith, as well as the public, has good reason not to trust Loudoun County Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney Buta Biberaj, a liberal prosecutor whose election was backed by George Soros, the judge said.
&#8220;The concerns about the public confidence in the integrity of the prosecution as well as the Defendant&#8217;s concerns regarding the impartiality of the Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney are sufficiently grounded,&#8221; wrote Circuit Judge James Plowman. &#8220;As a result, the integrity of the Defendant&#8217;s due process rights is in jeopardy and&#8230; the Loudoun County Commonwealth&#8217;s Attorney&#8217;s Office is hereby disqualified from serving as counsel in this matter.&#8221;
Smith became angry at the meeting after the superintendent provided <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-loudoun-schools-did-not-record-multiple-alleged-sexual-assaults-over-a-period-of-years-despite-state-law-records-show">false</a> information about sexual assault in local schools. The school board was attempting to pass a policy that would allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice, and the superintendent dismissed parents&#8217; concerns as unfounded because there had never been a sexual assault in the school bathroom.
Smith&#8217;s ninth-grade daughter had been raped in a school bathroom by a boy <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/picture-of-loudoun-rapist-raises-questions-about-superintendents-statement">wearing a skirt</a> just weeks prior, and school officials knew it.
The rapist went on to sexually assault a second girl because he was not held in jail or removed from school after his arrest. Biberaj sought to personally try the misdemeanor case against Smith, even though assistant commonwealth attorneys generally try such cases. She also sought jail time, a rarity for the charge, as well as for a prosecutor committed to finding alternatives to incarceration.
Biberaj won election in 2019 by about one percent after Soros, who has backed progressive prosecutors around the nation, spent more than $800,000 on her behalf. Her opponent spent about $150,000.
Eric Olsen, a prosecutor from nearby Stafford County, will oversee the charge.
Smith&#8217;s attorney, Bill Stanley, said Biberaj has proven she cannot be impartial toward his client. Smith said in a statement that Biberaj was out to &#8220;make an example&#8221; out of him.
“A fair system of criminal justice that is void of both bias and political agendas is the cornerstone of a free society,&#8221; Smith said. &#8220;From the beginning, Ms. Biberaj has sought to make an example of me for simply standing up to defend my daughter at the now infamous Loudoun County School Board meeting.&#8221;
Sean Kennedy, president of Virginians for Safe Communities, a group that has called attention to unusual behavior by far-left prosecutors, said Plowman&#8217;s ruling was a victory for justice.
“Biberaj – a supposed prosecutor – sides with criminals and her sympathies lie with defendants – unless they stand-up to her political allies,&#8221; Kennedy said. &#8220;Judge Plowman’s order is a victory for both the Smith family and every citizen of Loudoun County who seeks equal justice before the law.”
Biberaj did not return a request for comment.
The Loudoun County school board has unsuccessfully fought to shut down a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-school-board-sues-to-shut-down-grand-jury-investigating-rape-cover-up">grand jury investigation</a> into its handling of the rape.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cops-probe-after-middle-school-librarian-allegedly-says-students-are-sex-workers-to-justify-pro-prostitution-book">Cops Probe After Middle School Librarian Allegedly Says Students Are ‘Sex Workers’ To Justify Pro-Prostitution Book</a>
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Judge Throws Soros-Backed Prosecutor Off Of Case Against Loudoun Rape Victim’s Father

Judge Throws Soros-Backed Prosecutor Off Of Case Against Loudoun Rape Victim's Father

George Soros

The head of the Department of Justice’s National Security Division said Thursday that the DOJ has not prosecuted anyone for demonstrating outside of Supreme Court Justices’ residences, but that an order focusing the department on parents at school board meetings remains intact. He declined to disavow using the PATRIOT Act against parents.
The fact that the DOJ is still focused on school board issues is remarkable because the group that the DOJ relied on to justify the action — the National School Boards Association — has since <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nsba-apologizes-for-letter-describing-potential-domestic-terrorism-at-school-board-meetings">apologized</a> and is facing collapse, with the majority of state associations <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/25-states-have-now-left-national-school-boards-association-as-nebraska-departs">severing ties</a> following shock at the idea that parents could be likened to terrorists or that they should have civil rights stripped via involving the anti-terrorism PATRIOT Act. An early <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nsbas-first-draft-of-domestic-terrorism-letter-called-for-feds-to-sic-army-national-guard-and-its-military-police-on-parents-independent-review-shows">draft</a> of the letter even called for the feds to release &#8220;Army National Guard and Its Military Police&#8221; on parents.
At a hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) asked “Has the Department of Justice prosecuted a single case against individuals demonstrating at the residences of Supreme Court justices in violation of USC 1507?”
Matthew G. Olsen, the national security official, replied, “I&#8217;m not aware that there&#8217;s been a case brought under that particular statute.”
Roy said, “Which poses a greater danger to American national security: cartels or parents at school board meetings?”
Olsen uttered, “I mean, look. In groups, violent gangs that move drugs or are involved in acts of violence are significant threats.”
“Do they post a greater threat to the security of the United States than parents at school board meetings?” Roy prodded.
“I would certainly have to agree with that. I would agree that as a general proposition, being a parent myself, gangs and violent groups pose a greater threat to the American people, if that&#8217;s a serious question.”
Roy followed up: “Is the DOJ still operating under the memorandum issued by the Attorney General Merrick Garland on October 4, 2021, in which he said, &#8216;disturbing spike in harassment in intimidation, harassment and threats of violence of school boards.&#8217; Are they still operating under that memorandum?”
“The AG&#8217;s guidance from last fall continues in effect,” Olsen said.
Roy asked why the National Security Division was specifically mentioned in a DOJ press release about its efforts involving school board officials.
“The National Security Division is part of a broader array of components within the Justice Department that are part of that effort to ensure that people who serve on local school boards or other bodies are safe,” Olsen replied.
“Do you think parents rise to the level of the National Security Division of the Department of Justice?” Roy asked.
“I certainly think it&#8217;s possible that there could be a threat or act of violence against someone in local office, whether it’s city council or school board, that might reflect a domestic violent extremist attack, yes,” Olsen replied.
“Is it appropriate to use the PATRIOT Act against parents?” Roy asked.
Olsen declined to answer, saying, “The PATRIOT Act is a variety of tools. I can&#8217;t talk about it in the abstract.”
“Did the National School Board[s] Association recommend the use of the PATRIOT Act and describe the action of parents at school boards as the equivalent of domestic terrorism, preceding the memorandum issued by the DOJ?” Roy asked.
“I don&#8217;t know,” Olsen replied.
Roy pressed, “You don&#8217;t know that there was a memorandum put out by the NSBA referring to domestic terrorism and the use of PATRIOT Act prior to the Attorney General of the United States issuing a memorandum directly targeting and focusing on school boards?”
“I&#8217;ve heard you and other members of this committee make reference to that today,” Olsen said.
“You&#8217;re the head of the National Security Division, which is mentioned in the press release that goes out and you don&#8217;t know, you&#8217;re testifying under oath here before us that you don&#8217;t know anything about that?” Roy asked.
“I&#8217;ve heard of that letter; I don&#8217;t know exactly what it says,” Olsen answered.
Roy is a graduate of Loudoun County Public Schools. The NSBA letter that likened some parents to domestic terrorists referenced several supposed problems at school boards, one of the more severe was the case of Scott Smith, who was charged with disorderly conduct.
A George Soros-funded, elected district attorney personally prosecuted him and sought jail time, unheard of for the charge. The Daily Wire revealed that Smith was angry at the meeting because the superintendent had just falsely stated that no one had been raped in the district’s schools, when his daughter had been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says">raped by a boy wearing a skirt just weeks prior</a>.

Matthew Olsen

DOJ Tells Congress It Hasn’t Prosecuted Anyone For SCOTUS Protests, But Is Still Going After Parents

DOJ Tells Congress It Hasn't Prosecuted Anyone For SCOTUS Protests, But Is Still Going After Parents Following NSBA Letter

Chip Roy

Department of Justice

National Security

Texas

A <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia">Virginia</a> school district turned a blind eye to horrific <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/human-trafficking">sexual abuse</a> in a middle school in 2012, with staff members showing more compassion for an alleged attacker than for the victim, a new court filing alleges.
The allegations have come to light a decade later because the victim waited until she was an adult to sue and the case has been in the courts for the last three years. The explosive claims against Fairfax County Public Schools were revealed in a newly filed amended complaint and paint a disturbing picture of gang activity and sex trafficking in the area.
The events occurred when the girl, identified in court papers as B.R., was a 12-year-old student at Rachel Carson Middle School. One of her alleged attackers was an eighth grader called only C.K. in court papers, while other alleged attackers were unknown men who allegedly gang raped her in a closet in the school after C.K. bragged that he was grooming her for &#8220;friends&#8221; who would &#8220;make a lot of money&#8221; off of her, the complaint says.
The complaint says that C.K. waited for B.R. at the bus stop after school, brandished a knife, and “led Plaintiff to a secluded nearby area outside where he wrestled Plaintiff to the ground, held her there against her will, removed her clothing, and forced Plaintiff… to perform oral sex.” Similar events occurred on a near-daily basis for several days, until the girl&#8217;s mother heard a voicemail message in which her daughter&#8217;s tormentor crudely threatened to sodomize her, according to the complaint.
Although it was before the alleged gang rape and the girl had not yet told her parents the extent of the abuse she had allegedly endured, her parents went to school officials in February of 2012 to complain of persistent sexual harassment in the school halls, the voicemail from C.K., and so claim that C.K. had stolen $50 from B.R. Officials allegedly brushed her complaint aside.
“Assistant Principal S.T. told Plaintiff and her parents that C.K. ‘had a very hard life and been in enough trouble,’ and asked Plaintiff and her mother why they were trying to ‘ruin a young boy’s life,’” the complaint states.
Assistant Principal S.T. then visited C.K.&#8217;s home, where his mother told him that he was &#8220;borrowing&#8221; the $50. After that conversation, the assistant principal told B.R.&#8217;s parents that it appeared to be a &#8220;boy girl thing&#8221; in which B.R. was &#8220;sexually active&#8221; with C.K. The assistant principal returned the $50 while laughing that B.R. should take it back before she spent it on Christmas shopping herself, the complaint says.
The abuse got worse after she went to school officials, culminating in a student dragging her into a closet in the school building after school where she was &#8220;raped by three unknown males (Mike Roes 1 – 3) consistent with the modus operandi of human and sexual traffickers in the Fairfax community,&#8221; the lawsuit alleged.
In February 2012, B.R.&#8217;s parents began keeping her home from school, and she disclosed the full extent of the alleged sexual abuse. On March 5, her parents went to the police and spoke with Detective Fred Chambers – the former School Resource Officer for the middle school &#8212; who directed her to take a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner (“SANE”) evaluation which “revealed she suffered contusions inside her anus thereby corroborating her report of rape and sodomy,” the suit says.
Yet the detective went on to accuse the girl of making a false rape accusation &#8220;despite his knowledge of corroborating evidence,” the complaint says. School officials began investigating the alleged victim, the complaint claims.
“Under the guise of a school investigation, and in the course and scope of his authority as principal of RCMS, Principal A.F. visited Plaintiff’s elementary school to dig up ‘dirt’ on Plaintiff,&#8221; it says.
Although little is known of the assailants alleged to have gang-raped the girl, the events happened at the same time that  <a href="https://www.npr.org/2011/11/14/142300731/gangs-enter-new-territory-with-sex-trafficking">NPR</a> was reporting that the gang MS-13 was forcing children into prostitution in Fairfax. In 2014, FCPS warned of sex trafficking in a page on its website that included a <a href="https://www.fcps.edu/node/32026">video</a> saying one gang alone had attempted to recruit more than 800 girls in the county.
FCPS had a pattern of downplaying sexual misconduct so that the school system&#8217;s statistics looked better, the complaint says. &#8220;In effect, FCSB had a policy, custom, and practice of sweeping student-on-student sexual violence and sexual harassment under the rug,&#8221; it says.
Schools also required to disclose certain incidents in a statewide database. Loudoun County acknowledged <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/exclusive-loudoun-schools-did-not-record-multiple-alleged-sexual-assaults-over-a-period-of-years-despite-state-law-records-show">failing to report</a> to the database properly after The Daily Wire pointed out that both the infamous bathroom rape and an earlier well-known locker room incident were missing.
In the 2011-2012 school year, when the Rachel Carson complaints were filed, FCPS reported <a href="https://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/school_climate/discipline_crime_violence/11-12_annual_report.pdf">zero</a> sexual assaults and five sexual batteries across its 180,000 students. In the 2018-19 school year, the most recent before coronavirus disruptions, FCPS reported <a href="https://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/school_climate/index.shtml">10 incidents</a> of &#8220;sexual battery against student.&#8221;
FCPS did not return a request for comment.

School System Downplayed Alleged Sexual Misconduct Against 12-Year Old, Citing ‘Hard Life’ Of Suspect, Suit Claims

Fairfax Schools Downplayed Rachel Carson Middle School Sexual Misconduct, Citing 'Hard Life' Of Suspect, Suit Claims

Fairfax County

Sexual Assault

Terry McAuliffe

Police in <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/virginia">Northern Virginia</a> are investigating after a middle school librarian allegedly defended a pro-prostitution book by saying it belonged in the library because many of the school&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/pedophilia">11- to 13-year old students are sex workers</a>, The Daily Wire has learned.
A shocked <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/loudoun-county">Loudoun County</a> teacher went to the police after the librarian, Stefany Guido, allegedly made the comment to her. The teacher had asked Guido about a book a parent had flagged on Twitter called &#8220;Seeing Gender,&#8221; which included a chapter titled &#8220;&#8216;Sex Work&#8217; Is Not a Bad Term.&#8221; The Daily Wire is withholding the name of the teacher, who as a &#8220;mandatory reporter&#8221; felt compelled to tell police that students in her charge could be in danger.
&#8220;A person may exchange sex or sexual activity for things they need or want, such as food, housing, hormones, drugs, gifts, or other resources,&#8221; reads one shocking passage in the book.
Prostitution is &#8220;a job like being a store clerk, an architect, or a freelance writer. We all, unfortunately, have to do work to make a living. Some of us hate our jobs and some of us love them&#8211;the same goes for those who do sex work. Sadly, sex work is generally misunderstood,&#8221; the book states.
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From a Loudoun middle school library, “Seeing Gender” by Iris Gottlieb. <a href="https://t.co/wnoQMLlpKw">pic.twitter.com/wnoQMLlpKw</a>
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The Sterling Middle School teacher went to the school library after seeing the unidentified parent&#8217;s tweet about the book to find out if it was actually available to students. Guido retrieved the book and defended it, the teacher told police in a recorded conversation reviewed by The Daily Wire. In her interview with police, the teacher recounted her discussion with Guido.
“She started talking about how there&#8217;s kids who come to the library who do sex work, and this makes them feel validated,” the teacher told police. “As a teacher, if you get an individual student coming to you because you&#8217;re abused, you have to go the police immediately.”
The teacher said Guido did not name specific students, except one who had passed through the school about six years ago.
Guido allegedly said she marked the book as being for eighth graders.
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“I said, &#8216;what happens if a sixth grader checks it out?'&#8221; the teacher told police. &#8220;She said ‘I have a conversation with them about it.’”
“I said, ‘This is like a textbook for how to do this, including selling your body for hormone replacement therapy,'&#8221; the teacher said. “She said, &#8216;There&#8217;s no pornography in it so it doesn&#8217;t matter.’”
Guido did not return a request for comment from The Daily Wire on whether she had reported any knowledge she may have about child prostitution to the police.
The Loudoun County Sheriff&#8217;s Office did not responded to a request for the police report, although the officer the teacher spoke to pledged to look into the matter.
On the recording, Deputy Jamie Holben — a former School Resource Officer for the middle school— notes that the school is in a rough neighborhood where detectives have reason to believe child trafficking has occurred.
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Guido has been active in political and cultural hot-button issues. In 2017, Guido told the Human Rights Campaign she was canvassing for votes for a transgender Democrat political candidate. &#8220;I felt like I was actually making an impact in politics — which has always felt impenetrable in the past. It was so rewarding to get to go out and interact with other voters in a positive way,&#8221; she <a href="https://www.hrc.org/news/virginians-mobilize-for-danica-roems-historic-campaign">said</a>.
Earlier this month, she used Facebook to raise money for abortions.
The school&#8217;s other librarian, Lisa Buffi, created a 17-page list of &#8220;LGBTQ+ Books&#8221; for children, such as &#8220;a picture book with rhyming text that encourages boys and girls to ignore common gender stereotypes,&#8221; one about a boy who transfers to a new school and begins life as a girl, and others called &#8220;The Bride Was A Boy,&#8221; &#8220;Boy Meets Boy,&#8221; and &#8220;Being Jazz: My Life As A (Transgender) Teen.&#8221;
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She also appealed to <a href="https://www.donorschoose.org/project/bucks-for-books-2018-2019/3346491/">outside donors</a> to purchase books such as &#8220;Ghost Boy,&#8221; and promoted an effort by a gay group to donate books to the library.
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The American Library Association has increasingly promoted to children <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-library-association-transgender-gender-queer-comics-schools">comic books</a> that contain overt sexual messages. In April, it chose a self-described <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/marxist-elected-to-head-american-library-association?utm_campaign=64470">“Marxist lesbian”</a> as its president-elect. Her platform seemed to have little to do with literature, saying “So many of us find ourselves at the ends of our worlds. The consequences of decades of unchecked climate change, class war, white supremacy, and imperialism have led us here.”
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The Media Research Center (MRC) announced Tuesday that Daily Wire investigative reporter Luke Rosiak has won its first-ever MRC Bulldog Award for “Outstanding Investigative Journalist.”
Rosiak was among six Bulldog Award winners, including Fox News host Mark Levin (“Outstanding Talk Show Host”), New York Post columnist Miranda Devine (“Outstanding Columnist”), and conservative radio host Dan Bongino (“Outstanding Podcast”).
“Today’s MRC Bulldog Award recipients have been selected after careful consideration,” MRC President Brent Bozell said. “Their impactful work is trusted and respected by Americans nationwide, unlike the work of the left-wing operatives that call themselves ‘journalists.’ As the liberal media celebrate themselves with Pulitzers, we wanted to shine a light on the real journalists who are greatly dedicated to informing the American public on stories the legacy media ignores.”
Rosiak received the award for his investigative work uncovering the sexual assaults in Loudoun County, Virginia, public schools. His <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/loudoun-county-schools-tried-to-conceal-sexual-assault-against-daughter-in-bathroom-father-says">piece</a> published by The Daily Wire in October 2021 documented the sexual assault of a girl in a Loudoun high school bathroom. 
Rosiak’s revelations “redefined the Virginia gubernatorial and attorney general campaigns,” MRC said in a press release, as voters in Virginia overwhelmingly voted for Republican candidates promising to give parents more say in their children&#8217;s education. 
MRC says it is committed to &#8220;neutralizing leftist bias in the news media and popular culture has had a critical impact on the way Americans view the liberal media.&#8221; The research center prides itself in educating the public about Left-wing media bias.
Other winners of the MRC Bulldog Awards included The Reload founder Stephen Gutowski for “Outstanding Blogger” and Washington Free Beacon Media Reporter Drew Holden for “Outstanding Social Media Personality.” 
The Bulldog Award winners were voted on by a panel of judges nominated by the public.

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Daily Wire’s Luke Rosiak Wins Award For ‘Outstanding’ Investigative Journalist

Luke Rosiak Wins Award For 'Outstanding Investigative Journalist'

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