A special grand jury report into Loudoun County Public Schools' handling of two student sexual assaults last year concluded that Loudoun administrators badly mismanaged the assaults due to incompetence and a lack of interest in the events.
published Monday, the jury concluded that Loudoun administrators badly mismanaged the sexual assaults due to incompetence and a lack of interest in the events. But the jury also found there was no “coordinated cover-up” of the assaults between Loudoun school officials and the school board, as some had alleged. Instead, the school board was mostly kept in the dark about the assaults, the jury found.
Miyares said in an interview that the grand jury is continuing to work, but declined to comment on whether the panel might issue any criminal charges in connection with its findings. “The lesson that we should take away is that we can’t continue to operate in silos when the safety of our children, or anyone in the community, is at stake,” Biberaj said. “We invite all the involved entities to come together and move forward towards developing comprehensive responses to such matters.”The Loudoun superintendent previously apologized for the school’s management of the incident and vowed reforms to school policies related to the handling of sexual harassment and assaults.
The report suggests Loudoun should increase the information it sends to parents and staffers about significant incidents that take place on school property, that it should reexamine the process it uses to transfer students between schools, and that the school system’s director of safety and security should become “more involved” in handling school crises.
no response from higher-level administrators. For example, about two weeks before the male student committed the first assault, a teaching assistant at Stone Bridge wrote to a fellow teacher and the department chair to warn that the teen has “a problem with listening and keeping his hands to himself,” noting that the student had several times touched female classmates inappropriately.
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