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36 parents expressed concern during Tuesday’s school board meeting over Superintendent Scott Ziegler, saying he should resign for overseeing cover-ups of two sexual assaults occurring on school grounds that were facilitated by the school’s transgender policy.

• LCPS’s approval of Policy 8040 on Aug. 11, which allows students regardless of their gender into all school bathrooms, was a major point of criticism on Tuesday’s meeting, as board members knew about an alleged sexual assault that occurred in May and still approved the measure.

• “The 8040 policy was rushed through to a vote without consideration for the safety of all students, simply to satisfy a liberal agenda, a policy that you knew full well would allow our children to be abused inside our schools,” one mother reportedly said at the meeting, adding Ziegler’s “moral compass is busted,” and he and school board administrators are “complicit in these crimes against our children because you did nothing about it.”

• The first incident allegedly took place on May 28, when a ninth-grade female was assaulted in the bathroom by a boy wearing a skirt, according to the girl’s father. The boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy, one count of anal sodomy, and one count of forcible fellatio, according to the attorney for the girl’s father.

• But at a June 22 board meeting, Ziegler declared “the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist,” and the girl’s father, Scott Smith , was arrested when he insisted at the meeting that his daughter’s story was true.

• Michelle Bowman, a public information officer for the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office, confirmed in an email to the Washington Examiner “a May 28, 2021, case at Stone Bridge High School that involved a thorough 2-month-long investigation that was conducted to determine the facts of the case prior to arrest.” The department is unable to provide documents as the case is pending, according to Bowman.

SOURCE: WASHINGTONEXAMINER