Virginia School Board Hid Bathroom Assault to Protect Transgender Policies

By this point, just about everyone is familiar with the school board in Loudoun County, Virginia. This suburban county outside Washington, DC, is the wealthiest county in the country in terms of median household income. The county made waves over the summer as the board proceeded to push controversial policies which have drawn parents from all walks of life speaking in opposition, largely ignored. From transgender bathroom policies to Covid mask mandates, to the controversy of integrating Critical Race Theory into classroom curriculum, Loudoun County has been at the forefront of the backlash against a takeover of the education system by leftwing activists disguised as caring school board members.

The most recent controversy coming out of Loudoun County, the heinous sexual assault of a girl in the girl’s bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt, perhaps is most disturbing of all.

The assault occurred in May of this year and has been confirmed by local law enforcement and supports the story of the victim’s father, Scott Smith. In June of this year, Smith attended a school board meeting, and was placed under arrest after trying to speak at the meeting asking for answers about how the school intended to keep all students safe in bathrooms in light of proposed bathroom policy changes that would allow students to use the bathroom of their choice:

Now, Smith says there’s much more to his story, telling The Daily Wire that his behavior at the June 22 meeting stemmed from an incident weeks earlier at his ninth-grade daughter’s school, Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn, in which he said a boy wearing a skirt entered the girls’ bathroom and assaulted his daughter on May 28.

“We can confirm a May 28, 2021 case that involved a thorough 2-month-long investigation that was conducted to determine the facts of the case prior to arrest,” the sheriff’s office told Fox News. “This case is still pending court proceedings. The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office is not able to provide any documents that pertain to a pending case.” The sheriff’s office confirmed that the case involved sexual assault.

The suspect was arrested two months later following an investigation by the sheriff’s office.

The assault itself back in May was bad enough, but the story actually gets worse from there which is what finally prompted Smith to begin speaking publicly on the matter against advice from his attorneys.

Here’s the girl’s father speaking with Laura Ingraham on the Fox News Channel Tuesday night in a difficult-to-watch interview:

WATCH: Scott Smith, the father who says the Loudoun County school board covered up his daughter’s sexual assault by a boy identifying as a girl, appears on @IngrahamAngle to tell his story
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— X Strategies LLC (@XStrategiesLLC) October 13, 2021

Jumping to October, it was recently revealed that the same assailant who attacked Smith’s daughter back in May was now accused of another sexual assault against a female student on Oct. 6, at a different school within the same district:

Then on Oct. 6, the sheriff’s office said a 15-year-old boy was charged with sexual battery and abduction of a fellow student at Broad Run High School in Ashburn. In an Oct. 7 press release, the sheriff’s office said the suspect forced a female victim into an empty classroom where he held her against her will and inappropriately touched her.

The outlet, citing a government official, reported that the boy accused in the Broad Run case had the same name as the student who allegedly assaulted Smith’s daughter.

Lancaster, Smith’s attorney, also told the outlet the suspect in the Oct. 6 incident was the same boy who allegedly attacked Smith’s daughter.

Following the original attack back in May, the school district told Smith the issue would be handled internally and to please refrain from speaking due to the fact that the case was concerning juveniles. Having failed to get adequate answers, Smith attended the June board meeting but was denied the right to ask questions because he didn’t properly signup to be on the speaking list.

According to reporting, it appears the school board did little to address the problem at the time other than quietly transferring the assailant to another school in the district leaving more students in danger. The worst possible scenario then happened where another student fell victim to a similar assault just months later after the school board failed to adequately protect students.

More recently, on Tuesday night, the Loudoun County school board meeting was filled with parents demanding answers on how this could possibly occur not once, but twice within the county from the same predator attacking multiple students while parents were kept in the dark:

Parents blasted members of the Loudoun County Board of Education and the superintendent, calling for resignations after a student was charged with two sexual assaults on two different campuses.

Scott Smith confirmed to 7News On Your Side his daughter was the victim of a sexual assault in the girl’s bathroom at Stonebridge High School at the end of May.

The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office confirmed that same juvenile suspect was charged with a second sexual assault at another Loudoun County school after the May 28 incident.

Within the middle of this timeframe, in August, the school board passed new bathroom policies that would allow students to use the bathroom of the gender they identify with. At the time, the superintended is on record saying that there have had zero incidents of assaults in bathrooms on record in the district so the issue of student safety raised by parents was really a non-issue, according to the school board. This statement by the superintendent was clearly incorrect given the documented assault that occurred in May, corroborated by the Sheriff’s Department, and a post-assault medical examination of the victim confirming the story.

At the moment, the school board has yet to fully answer for the events or explain how a student, arrested for raping a girl in a school bathroom, was free to attend another school in the county despite numerous pending charges related to the original assault.