A female Loudoun County Public Schools counselor was charged with sexually abusing a former high school student Thursday, according to a county sheriff’s office press release.
Ann Barrett of Ashburn, Virginia, was “charged with taking indecent liberties with a child by a custodian” and promptly turned herself in following the charges, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office said.
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The sheriff’s office said it was notified of the allegation in May and immediately began investigating. Barrett served as a counselor at Freedom High School in Chantilly, Virginia, and the abuse took place from 2013 to 2015. No details about the victim, who is no longer a student, were released.
Under Virginia law, “indecent liberties with a child” covers a wide range of child-related sex crimes, ranging from genital exposure to sexual intercourse.
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LCPS has been under substantial scrutiny for its handling of a sexual assault by a male student on May 28 at a county high school, the same month the sheriff’s office began investigating allegations against Barrett. That student was allowed to attend a different school in the fall and was subsequently charged with a second assault in October. County students staged a walkout protest in October over the school board’s handling of the case.
