Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares defended his office’s investigation into Loudoun County Public Schools’ handling of a sexual assault after two Democratic state legislators demanded the investigation to be shut down.
State Sen. Jennifer Boysko and state Del. Suhas Subramanyam had called on Miyares to end his investigation into Loudoun County Public Schools Friday, accusing the commonwealth’s top law enforcement official of conducting a biased investigation for political ends.
“The Office of the Attorney General is dedicated to discovering the truth about what happened in Loudoun County this past year, because every Virginia family deserves answers,” Miyares spokeswoman Victoria LaCivita said in a statement. “The fact that two Loudoun County officials want to deny the public the truth is shameful.”
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Subramanyam had said that Miyares had “made it clear that this will be a rigged, politicized investigation and politicize the events that have taken place in Loudoun to make himself look good, rather than actually do anything to help protect kids in our schools, and give parents peace of mind.”
The two state lawmakers said that Miyares was rigging the investigation to make him “look good” so he could appoint from his own staff a new general counsel for the University of Virginia and face less scrutiny.
LaCivita said that there was “nothing about this investigation” that “is partisan or political,” noting that Theo Stamos, the attorney in charge of the investigation, is “a Democrat and former elected Commonwealth’s Attorney in Arlington County.”
“Uncovering the mistakes that led to two minors being sexually assaulted at school shouldn’t be partisan and will not be reversed,” LaCivita said.
Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order on his first day in office requesting that the attorney general open an investigation into Loudoun County Public Schools’ handling of a sexual assault by a student at a local high school.
The school board and its superintendent were notified of the assault shortly after it occurred in May 2021, but allowed the student to attend a different school, where he subsequently committed a second assault.
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The student was found guilty of the offense and sentenced to a mental health facility last month.
