This case reminds me of Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel’s 2013 leniency deal with the school district to reduce arrests in all of Broward’s schools. Nikolas Cruz who committed the mass shooting at Parkland, had 70 prior incidents recorded in the Broward County’s data base, and nothing was ever done about them. He’d been given chance, after chance, because of that program, and it ended up with him murdering 17 people. How many more sexual assaults will they ignore before some kid is found dead, after having been sexually assaulted? Once a rapist is identified, but not locked up, they don’t usually leave witnesses that can identify them the next time they attack. These schools think that by hushing everything up, that it will all just go away. Instead, they create an even bigger problem, which I hope comes back to bite them in the ass, and their pocket books.
Pretty much correct on your commentary. I suspect if you dug into all Virginia acts of sexual assault on school property over the past 20 years....there’s probably over 20,000 ‘records’. Schools don’t want to handle the affairs, and I readily agree...dump it over to the local sheriff...bring the kid out of the school in handcuffs...holding them for a court-date, and handle this via an adult court situation. If the 16-year old kid needs six years of prison to mature-up...fine.
But I think all of this leads back to a fear that massive court episodes will occur, and a thousand young guys each year in the state of Virginia will go off for year or two of state prison time.