Law enforcement officials in Loudoun County, Virginia, are investigating reports of sexual assault at a local middle school.
“The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office is investigating multiple incidents that occurred at Harmony Middle School this week involving a male student touching other students inappropriately over their clothing,” read a statement from the office issued Thursday afternoon.
“At the end of the school day on October 27, the LCSO School Resource Office learned from school added that earlier in the day a male student was inappropriately touched over his clothing by another male student in a hallway,” the statement continued.
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Additional male students were inappropriately touched by the same juvenile but did not previously report the incidents to school officials or law enforcement, the sheriff’s office added.
The announcement comes a few days after a 15-year-old male accused of sexually assaulting a ninth-grade girl in a Loudoun County public school bathroom in May was found guilty on all charges. A juvenile court judge found the evidence enough to convict but will hold on sentencing until the convicted teenager is tried for another alleged assault at a different high school.
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Department confirmed that the boy was charged with two counts of forcible sodomy.
Scott Smith, the victim’s father, was arrested at a school board meeting in June in which he says he got into an altercation with a woman who said that she didn’t believe his daughter was raped. The superintendent defended the school’s transgender bathroom policy at the meeting. Smith was later found guilty in the school board scuffle of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
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The assault against Smith’s daughter was reported on May 28, and the school told Smith they would handle it internally. He got police involved, but on Oct. 6 the same boy who was convicted of the May assault was charged with another assault at a different high school. The Smiths are suing the school district.
The Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office released a statement two weeks ago responding to “misinformation” regarding claims of a cover-up in response to a pair of alleged sexual assaults in local Virginia high schools.
Scores of students at Loudoun County public high schools walked out of class Tuesday to protest the county school board’s handling of a sexual assault that has drawn nationwide attention.
