Posted on 09/02/2023 5:33:27 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A “drag” performer arrested 22 years ago for possessing both child pornography and illicit drugs has been hired to be the school principal of an Oklahoma City elementary school, and the school district is defending its decision.
Meet Shane Murnan- elementary principal at @wh_isd.
Shane is a drag queen who performs for children and reads books about gender to kids while dressed in drag.
Shane was also previously arrested on child porn charges.
Would you want this person in charge of your kid’s school? pic.twitter.com/yNuZyt3HRK
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) August 30, 2023
Dr. Shane Brent Murnan, 52, the new elementary school principal at John Glenn Elementary, had his personal devices confiscated by police in 2001 on suspicion of possession of child pornography, V1SUT reported on Substack. Almost 20 years later, he was investigated for another crime, according to a 2020 court filing.
Police arrested the then-30-year-old in August 2001 after a Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation (OSBI) search recovered four deleted images of children engaged in sex acts, according to court records. Police also found 6 grams of marijuana in his home. Murnan, at the time, was a fifth-grade teacher at Stillwater’s Will Rogers Elementary School. After the arrest, school officials suspended Murnan and he resigned in May 2002.
“From there, some unexplainable legal wrangling began in which Payne County Special Judge Phillip Corley ruled that prosecutors had not proven Murnan had possessed child pornography, claiming it could not be definitively proven the children in the photos were underage,” V1SUT reported.
Payne County prosecutors appealed Corley’s decision and prevailed in the Payne County Appeals Court.
In direct contradiction to the earlier ruling, Appeals Court Judge Dave Allen stated in his decision: “It is clear from a review of the pictures that they do represent child pornography”.
Later on, however, Payne County District Judge Donald L. Worthington reversed the reversal, dismissing the child porn charge.
Payne County prosecutors gave up, choosing not to appeal. In the end, it appears there was never any disagreement about the existence of the pornographic photos on Murnan’s computer, yet the charge was dropped. Was this a behind-the-scenes plea agreement to allow Murnan to accept only the drug charge (marijuana) and retain his teaching certificate?
Murnan’s record was expunged in October of 2003 after his short probation period on the drug charge. He spent the next several years creating his “Shantel Mandalay” persona and entering crossdressing pageants such as Miss Gay Oklahoma, V1SUT reported.
Last April, he posted a picture of himself dressed like the Easter Bunny on his “Shantel Mandalay” Facebook page with a message about his previous bad choices and the joys of being an educator.
On his drag queen Facebook page, Murnan posts many pictures of himself in and out of drag cavorting with other drag queens and young homosexuals at drag events and in gay bars.
“When my little sister wants a present for her birthday, I do my best to make it happen,” Murnan wrote in the caption for the picture below.
From 2007-2015, Murnan was back in the classroom, teaching at a small elementary School in Norman, Oklahoma, V1SUT reported. From there, he moved to the much larger Oklahoma City Public Schools district as teacher, teacher trainer/instructional coach, and eventually assistant principal at Prairie Queen Elementary School.
Prairie Queen is an underperforming school that serves a population that is 82.3 percent Hispanic and 96.5 percent economically disadvantaged. Most parents speak limited English and 69 percent of students are English language learners. These are vulnerable kids.
In 2018, Murnan reportedly cofounded Oklahoma City Drag Queen Story Hour, Inc. and began promoting the child-grooming library events throughout the state.
The organization teamed with the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Library System during the COVID pandemic and Murnan’s Shantel Mandalay persona was featured online reading to a target audience of young children through the library’s Facebook events.
In September of 2020, during Murnan’s time at Prairie Queen Elementary School, the state entered a Criminal Probable Cause Initial Filing for an undisclosed crime with Murnan as the defendant. That case was assigned to Judge Kevin C. McCray.
Now, three years later, the Oklahoma City Public Schools district hired Murnan to be in charge of John Glenn Elementary School in the Western Heights School District (WHSD) in the southwest part of the OKC metro area.
The district of approximately 2,750 students has been in turmoil since 2021 when the state temporarily took over due to years of financial mismanagement and noncompliance. To simplify, the district gets a lot of funds, spends significantly more than the state average and continues to fail children.
The student population at John Glenn Elementary School is “majority Hispanic, English language learners and overwhelmingly economically disadvantaged,” according to V1SUT.
In a letter to the school’s parents, Brayden Savage, superintendent of Western Heights Public Schools, addressed the district’s controversial hiring decision.
“I am writing to address a concern you may read about on social media,” Savage wrote in the letter obtained by the Daily Caller. “We understand the situation may cause concerns and questions among parents, staff, and community members.”
According to news reports at the time, those charges were dismissed by the court, and the record of the charges has been expunged,” the letter continues. “Since that time, Dr. Murnan has continued to be certified as an elementary school teacher and principal, including having his certificate renewed in April of 2023 and signed by State Superintendent Ryan Walters. The State Department of Education would have conducted another felony background check upon renewing his certification.”
Savage said that at the time of “recommendation,” the district gave its school board “all of the information” it had regarding Murnan and the board then voted to approve his hiring.
He told parents that the district followed “usual hiring practices” in vetting Murnan, checking references and conducting a felony criminal background check.
“Please know we are aware of the situation and handling this matter with the utmost attention and care,” Savage wrote.
In a statement to Crisis in the Classroom (CITC) Thursday, the Oklahoma State Department of Education said “anything that might expose kids to inappropriate sexual content at school is cause for serious concern to parents,” and that the department is “looking into all accusations and will take any necessary action to protect kids.”
Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters issued a strong statement on X Friday condemning WHSD’s hiring of Murnan.
“This is completely unacceptable,” Walters said. “We know that radical gender theory has been a direct assault on our kids and we can’t allow this in our schools.”
The superintendent said school districts need to do a better job vetting educators to make sure they reflect “Oklahoma values.”
“No one want’s to send their kid to school knowing that they could be exposed to this radical gender theory in any capacity,” he added. “This woke war on our kids has to stop.”
Drag queens in schools do not = Oklahoma values. pic.twitter.com/XQzpNIUnLw
— Superintendent Ryan Walters (@RyanWaltersSupt) September 1, 2023
Poor children. Sick school board.
The entire public education system in this country needs to be destroyed. There’s no reform possible.
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A demonic spirit has overwhelmed this nation. Pray fervently for God to remove this evil from us.
So true. I pray every morning got the soul of this nation…
FACT:
Years ago, I had an encounter with a coworker who bragged about the ‘locks’ on his computer that NO ONE could break. (I had stopped by his home with someone who was returning a book and I peeked at his family pictures in the frames. Weird - they were the pictures that came with the frames.) He was very ...’flamboyant’ .... and came onto a male who had zero interest in straying from his wife. I overheard this guy later excitedly discussing a young boy’s 18th birthday that was coming up with another man.
You would have thought this guy was straight when you first meet him.
A leopard doesn’t change his spots and I am wondering why this freak who now has unfettered access to vulnerable children wasn’t required to register as a sex offender.
SHAME. SHAME. SHAME.
I hope those parents pull their kids out of this freak show.
If you’ve questioned whether this country could get any more perverse here’s the answer.
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Walters is working to fix Oklahoma education. That’s why the woke school teachers and administrators hate him.
Also, Tulsa and Oklahoma County are not a good representation of the rest of Oklahoma.
I can’t believe the parents haven’t risen up and directly done something about this. This is an abomination. Everyone involved in hiring this person should be “held accountable” and I mean now. WTF, Oklahoma?
Not a single school board in America has retained an ounce of common sense. Even the reddest states suffer from the same disease.
There is no recovery from exploiting children for sexual pleasure. I would be my mortgage his computer and or phone has images that are illegal.
It is time to return to old fashioned justice. Tarring and feathering the school board members that permit or encourage this crap would put a stop to it.
YES.
Pedophiles NEVER change.
And they hide it well - anyone remember a few years ago the guy who committed suicide when LE was breaking down his door and they were never able to access his computer???
IIRC, it had something to do with child pornography.
And then there is this:
https://nypost.com/2023/04/16/tim-yergeau-dies-by-suicide-following-botched-child-porn-raid/
That school principal and others like him/it intentionally choose careers that give them access to children.
It seems like the nation is totslly gone, or close to it, but The majority of the nation is still good- its just that the evil gets the headline news. When God destroyed nations, he gave them every opportunity to repent first to avoid the destruction, but the nations were so wicked and given over to evil that nearly the whole nation was evil. We still have a very large remnant society which still fights agaisnt the evil, and thankfully can do so in a “free society” (although that is diminishing too)-
But yeah, certain people,and institutions in this nation are really shoving their immorality and deviances in The faces of the nation. Thankful,y though there are still many small towns and suburbs etc where they still value morality and God’s blessings.
Every parent in that district should be protesting loudly and demanding they fire him! When schools hire, they are supposed to do background checks, and infact they did one on him and learned he has committed acts which should by all rights disbarred him from being around d children. Since they hired him, the first child that is affected by him should sue the school into oblivion for hiring a known predator. Just his prancing around in front of children should by all rights disqualify him from teaching kids!
“Inclusive” has gone a bridge too far here, and they dynamited the bridge after crossing, leaving no way to walk it back. The school board has exceeded their authority and discarded all judgment in their haste to “get on board” with the latest fad in “reforming” the school curriculum to fit DEI at the expense of STEM and the values of the Great American Experiment.
And we are supposed to root for this country over Russia?
“ Since they hired him, the first child that is affected by him should sue the school into oblivion for hiring a known predator. ”
It should not be allowed to go that far. That freak should be run out of town. Why give him the chance to harm one more child?
Sounds like this school was chosen because the families are poor, nonEnglish speakers who need schools to daycare their kids while they struggle to work. So homeschool not much of an option, and kids he selects will be very vulnerable to grooming
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