Loudoun school sex assault investigation unsealed by judge

Nbcwashington · Sep 14, 2023 · 844 words · By Drew Wilder

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Loudoun County Public Schools failed to meet its federal Title IX obligations after sexual assaults in two high schools in 2021, an independent investigation unsealed Thursday found.

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What happened

Loudoun County Public Schools failed to meet its federal Title IX obligations after sexual assaults in two high schools in 2021, an independent investigation unsealed Thursday found.

Why it matters

News4 obtained the first public copy of the investigation that families in Northern Virginia have waited nearly two years for.

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Claim 1: “Loudoun County Public Schools failed to meet its federal Title IX obligations after sexual assaults in two high schools in 2021, an independent investigation unsealed Thursday found.”

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Multiple web search results confirm that an independent investigation was unsealed and found that LCPS failed to meet Title IX obligations following sexual assaults in 2021.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Loudoun County () is in the northern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. In 2020, the census returned a population of 420,959, making it Virginia's third-most populous county. T…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudoun_County,_Virginia

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Loudoun County High School is a public secondary school in Leesburg, Virginia. It is part of Loudoun County Public Schools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudoun_County_High_School

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) is a branch of the Loudoun County, Virginia, United States government, and administers public schools in the county. Its headquarters are located at 21000 Educatio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudoun_County_Public_Schools

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Claim 2: “In May 2021, a male student sexually assaulted a girl classmate inside a restroom at Stone Bridge High School.”

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While the general event of sexual assaults in Loudoun schools is corroborated, the specific detail of a male student assaulting a girl in a restroom at Stone Bridge in May 2021 is mentioned in the context of the unsealed report, but not independently detailed across multiple distinct news reports in the provided evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Stone Bridge may refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Bridge

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Stone Bridge High School is a public secondary school in Ashburn, a community in Loudoun County, Virginia. The school is part of Loudoun County Public Schools. Newsweek ranked Stone Bridge the #4 high…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Bridge_High_School

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Claim 3: “An investigation was commissioned by the Loudoun County School Board (LCSB) on October 28, 2021, and this Report was issued by the law firm of Blankenship & Keith, P.C., on December 31, 2021”

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No evidence was provided in the search results to verify the specific dates of the commission (Oct 28) or the issuance (Dec 31) of the report.

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Claim 4: “He was transferred to Broad Run High School for the next school year, where he assaulted another girl.”

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Web search results confirm the attacker was allowed to transfer to Broad Run High School and committed a second assault there.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Riverside High School is a public secondary school in the Leesburg subdivision Lansdowne, Virginia, a community in Loudoun County, Virginia. The school is part of Loudoun County Public Schools.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_High_School_(Loudoun…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Stone Bridge may refer to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Bridge

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Claim 5: “the report found no evidence that the attacker identified as female or gender fluid. It found no evidence that he wore a skirt or kilt that day”

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The finding that there was no evidence of the attacker identifying as female or wearing a skirt is mentioned in the context of the unsealed report, but not corroborated by other independent sources in the provided evidence.

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Claim 6: “the district never conducted a threat assessment of the attacker and it should have.”

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The failure to conduct a threat assessment is a finding of the report mentioned in the search results, but not independently corroborated by other sources in the provided text.

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web search NEUTRAL — Loudoun County Public Schools is a branch of the Loudoun County, Virginia, United States government, and administers public schools in the county. LCPS's headquarters is located at 21000 Education Cou…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudoun_County_Public_Schools

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web search NEUTRAL — Loudoun County Public Schools has taken numerous, significant actions since 2021 in the areas of personnel changes, organizational changes, policy changes, process improvements, legislative proposals.…
https://cbs6albany.com/news/nation-world/unsealed-report-rev…

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web search NEUTRAL — After the incident, the perpetrating student was allowed to transfer to Broad Run High School, where he committed a second assault about five months later on Oct.Loudoun County Superintendent Scott Zi…
https://www.ntd.com/federal-probe-targets-loudoun-county-sch…

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Claim 7: “The report found that the attacker was not transferred to Broad Run until the day before school started that fall, and only because the attacker’s mother had explained multiple times to the Stone Bridge High principal that a judge said her son could not return to Stone Bridge.”

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The detail that the attacker was transferred to Broad Run the day before school started is explicitly mentioned in the unsealed report search results and corroborated by related reporting on the lawsuit.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Broad Run High School is a public secondary school in Ashburn, an unincorporated area in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. Broad Run is part of the Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) system. …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_Run_High_School

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Broad Run may refer to a place in the United States: Streams Broad Run (Little Muncy Creek), in Lycoming County, Pennsylvania Broad Run (Loudoun County, Virginia), a tributary of the Potomac River Br…
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Claim 8: “Loudoun County Circuit Court’s ruling authorizing the public release of the independent review conducted by the law firm of Blankingship & Keith.”

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Multiple sources confirm that the Loudoun County Circuit Court ordered the release of the independent review conducted by Blankingship & Keith.

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web search NEUTRAL — A Loudoun County Circuit Court judge has ordered the release of the Loudoun County Public Schools' independent review on school sexual assaults.
https://wjla.com/news/local/loudoun-county-public-schools-lc…

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web search NEUTRAL — The Loudoun County School Board is aware of the Loudoun County Circuit Court’s ruling authorizing the public release of the independent review conducted by the law firm of Blankingship & Keith.The Lou…
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/loudoun-school-sex-…

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web search NEUTRAL — The review looked into how the school system handled the two cases involving two student victims and a suspect, who was also an LCPS student. In February, a majority on the Loudoun County School Board…
https://armyofparents.org/virginia-ag-introduces-motion-to-u…

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Claim 9: “Some of the most notable actions have been replacing the former Division Superintendent, replacing the former LCPS Title IX Coordinator, establishing a full-time Title IX Office with multiple personnel to process allegations and complaints, reviewing and updating 10 related School Board policies”

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No evidence was provided in the search results to verify the specific list of actions (replacing superintendent, coordinator, etc.)

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Claim 10: “The report says the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office effectively directed the school district to hold off on launching a Title IX investigation after the first attack”

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This specific detail regarding the Sheriff's Office directing the school to hold off on the investigation is attributed to the report in the provided web search results, but not corroborated by a second independent source.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) is the primary law enforcement agency within Loudoun County, Virginia and is the largest Sheriff's Office in the Commonwealth of Virginia. The agency is curr…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudoun_County_Sheriff's_Offic…

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Claim 11: “A new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the LCSO and LCPS was approved on June 13, 2023.”

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