Imagine that you get the second-worst call from school that any parent can get: your child has been raped. Would you want school leaders to address the incident promptly and ensure the safety of other students, or deny that the incident occurred, leave kids at risk, and leverage the tragedy to advance a partisan political agenda?
Loudoun County school superintendent Scott Ziegler picked the second option. As detailed in a horrifying story by Daily Wire reporter Luke Rosiak, a freshman girl was raped in the women’s bathroom by a “gender fluid,” skirt-wearing boy in May. At a June school board meeting at which attendees debated the district’s new transgender bathroom policy, Ziegler declared that his district had no record of sexual assaults in school bathrooms. Local reporting has since revealed that Ziegler knew about the incident at the time of the June meeting. And Loudoun County parents were outraged to learn that the rapist allegedly sexually assaulted another girl at another school earlier this month.
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