School District Ignored Warnings, Then Silenced Girls Fondled by Teacher

I wish this pervert had been given a good flogging by the relatives. Unbelievable that Young, the princpal, has moved on to a more senior position.

From the article:

A father saw Leede touch his daughter's breast in a school hallway. The newspaper isn't naming the father to protect his daughter's identity, but he gave this account:

He told Leede then and there: "If you ever touch my daughter like that again, one of us is going to the hospital and one of us is going to jail." That night, the father said, "I was in tears for not protecting my daughter better." He met with Young the next day, and Young told him: I'll take care of it. You don't need to put anything in writing. But later, the father said, Young claimed he couldn't do anything without a written complaint.

The girl's mother also met with Young. "Ed said that Carl had a clean file, that ... nobody had ever complained about him," she later told police.

After these meetings, Young sent Leede a note: Hi Carl, The personnel office sent us some pamphlets on safe interaction with students. After talking with you last week in regard to [the parents'] concern about you hugging their daughter, I thought that you may want to take a look at it. ...

January: The father who had met with Young in October turned in a written grievance: "I told him, 'Here's your bloody complaint. Now do something.' " The letter said Leede was still hugging children. Young wrote the father back: "I have spoken with him about your concerns and advised him on the district's policy on safe and appropriate touching. ... The inappropriate behavior will stop."

Young later described his talk with Leede to a district investigator: "I told him, 'You cannot hug from the front' and showed him the side hug."

This just boggles the mind. And you just know that had a fellow student,a boy their own age, done these things to these girls he would have been suspended, sent to sex harassment training & forced to attend an alternative school. Yet teachers everywhere are getting pass after pass for this garbage all over the country. Amazing.

The Seattle Times reporter (I'm assuming it was Ken Armstrong who authored this piece) who uncovered all of this deserves a Pulitzer or AP award or something.

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