Loudoun County Public Schools fired superintendent Scott Ziegler after a grand jury investigation slammed the district’s handling of sexual assaults by a student.
unanimously Tuesday to fire Ziegler immediately and without cause.
In May and October of 2021, a male student sexually assaulted two female students in the district. The perpetrator was allowed merely to change schools after the initial assault — at Stone Bridge High School — and the skirt-clad male reportedly sodomized a ninth-grade girl., which alleges that the second assault — at Broad Run High School — could have been prevented.
“It’s unfortunate that it took a special grand jury report for anyone to take any action,” Jessica Smith, the mother of the Stone Bridge victim said. “The firing of Ziegler was way overdue and we hope this is the first of many firings of all those who failed these young women who now have to deal with what happened to them for the rest of their lives.”
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