UPDATE
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10205015/Skirt-wearing-teen-pleads-no-contest-sexually-assaulting-second-girl-Loudon-County-school.html
EXCLUSIVE: Skirt-wearing teenage boy who was found guilty of raping female classmate in Loudon County school's girl's bathroom pleads NO CONTEST to groping another girl's breasts at his new high school months later.
The 15-year-old Loudon County student on Monday pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting a second female classmate in October
The skirt-wearing teenage boy was found guilty last month of raping a female student in the girl's bathroom at Stone Bridge High School in Ashburn in May
He was later transferred to Broad Run High School, where he accused of dragging a second girl into a classroom and touching her breasts
Deputy county attorney Barry Zweig told Loudoun County juvenile court the incident began with the two students in the hallway walking to class
The girl joked that he was going to miss his class and the teen became upset at her chiding him, explaining to her that he was new to the school, the court heard
He then 'wrapped his arm around her and pulled her into the classroom' where he allegedly put his arm around her neck and hand over her mouth
He put his hands up the back of her shirt, then reached in front and slipped his hands under her bra, Zweig said
Last month, speaking exclusively with DailyMail.com, his mother, said his actions were that of a heterosexual, hormonal teen
She said her son is trying to 'find himself' by wearing a skirt one day, and pants the next for attention he 'desperately' sought
The skirt-wearing Virginia boy who was found guilty of raping a female classmate in a school bathroom in May has pleaded no contest to sexually assaulting a second student in October, clearing the way for him to be sentenced for both crimes next month.
Details of the second incident, which involved the 15-year-old dragging another girl into an empty classroom and touching her breasts, were revealed Monday in Loudoun County juvenile court.
The defendant, wearing a green t-shirt and brown pants with his hair pulled back into a ponytail, sat silently as the prosecution laid out the second case.
His mother sat just behind him in the courtroom, and the rape victim from May sat with her parents in the back row, wincing as the details were revealed.
Deputy county attorney Barry Zweig said the October incident started with the boy and victim walking down the hallway at Broad Run High School toward his class that was about to begin.
The girl joked that he was going to miss his class and the teen became upset at her chiding him, Zweig said, explaining to her that he was new to the school. He then pushed her into an empty room next door.
'He wrapped his arm around her and pulled her into the classroom,' Zweig said.
In the room, he allegedly put his arm around her neck and hand over her mouth, making it difficult to breathe.
He put his hands up the back of her shirt, then reached in front and slipped his hands under her bra.
They spent about 10 minutes in the room, then left together, the prosecutor said.
The girl then texted a classmate, who met her in a bathroom. The two then reported the incident to a school resource officer.
The boy, who was arrested later that day, was charged as a juvenile with abduction and sexual battery, the adult equivalents of a felony and misdemeanor, respectively.
He pleaded no contest to both charges, but claimed he didn't cover her mouth or choke her. He admitted he grabbed her breasts, but said he only touched her over her clothing.
Hallway video shows him pushing her into the class, but there was no camera footage inside the room, the prosecution said.
In court, the boy, wearing a white face mask, only spoke once when the judge asked if he had any questions.
'No, man,' he said, before he was lead out of the courtroom and returned to the juvenile detention center. He will be sentenced on both cases December 13.
After Monday's hearing, the boy's mother didn't comment on the incident but said she's hoping her son gets the help he needs.
'He's young, he has a lot of learning to do,' she told reporters outside the courtroom.
'I hope he's given the opportunity to do so and prove he can do better and be better.'
Meanwhile, Loudoun County Commonwealth's attorney Buta Biberaj said afterwards that he has yet to decide what sentence he will recommend, noting he wants to hear what the juvenile probation department recommends and see the results of a psychosexual evaluation of the boy.
'All we have is the facts of the case, we don't have the facts of the person,' he said.
The Virginia school district was thrust into the national spotlight earlier this year over allegations the skirt-wearing boy raped a female classmate at Stone Bridge High School, which he originally attended before being transferred to Broad Run after the incident.
The story exploded when Scott Smith, the father of the rape victim, was dragged out of a school board meeting with a bloodied mouth on June 22 after listening to school officials deny that a girl had been sexually assaulted in the bathroom after his daughter had reported the rape.
After Monday's hearing, the girl's mother, Jessica Smith, issued a statement regarding the second conviction of her daughter's assailant, which read, in part:
'My daughter's struggle, and that of our family, still continues. We will not stop, we will not rest, until all who are responsible for this tragedy are held accountable.
'Today’s court ruling is not the end to this story. My husband and I, along with our daughter, will continue to fight for what is both right and just in our Title IX lawsuit against the Loudoun County School Board, so that no child, and no parent, will ever have to suffer what we have as a result of the misguided policies of our local government officials.'
Last month the mother of the convicted boy revealed her son doesn't identify as a female, and that his skirt wasn't just some disguise to slip into the girl's bathroom.
Speaking exclusively with DailyMail.com, the mom, who asked not to be identified for the sake of her underage son, defended his actions as that of a heterosexual, hormonal teen who, in the case of the rape, had consensual sex with the girl twice before.
'He's a 15-year-old boy that wanted to have sex in the bathroom, with somebody that was willing,' she declared, sitting in an empty kitchen in her townhouse in Loudoun County, Virginia.
'And they're twisting this just enough to make it a political hot button issue.'
The case became the searing tip of a raging debate in Loudoun County over transgender students' rights and parents' freedom of speech.
The school board has been routinely accused of pushing an ultra-liberal agenda on kids and parents and silencing those who disagree with them.
The scandal even entered Virginia's race for governor, giving life to the campaign of Republican gubernatorial candidate Glenn Youngkin who accused the Loudon school board of a coverup while warning, 'What tragedy next awaits our children?'
Despite his androgynous style and declaration that he's 'pansexual,' the boy's mother insisted he isn't the gender fluid boogeyman in a culture war about transgender policies.
'He would wear a skirt one day and then the next day, he would wear jeans and a t-shirt, a Polo or hoodie,' she explained. 'He was trying to find himself and that involved all kinds of styles. I believe he was doing it because it gave him attention he desperately needed and sought.'
At the same time, she concedes her son is deeply troubled, acknowledging his extensive history of misbehavior that included sending nude photos of himself to a girl in fifth grade.
She reached her own breaking point with the him in early October when he phoned her from the juvenile detention center following his second arrest.
'He asked me how I was doing, and I said, ''I'm broken, I'm shattered, you shattered me,'' the mom recalled. ''Do you have any idea what you've done to me, what you've done to your family?
'And his response was, ''No, what did I do?'' she said.
She had been his primary point of contact, with his dad living in New Jersey.
'At that point, I was like, 'You know what? I love you, I always will, I will do everything I can to always be there for you in any capacity possible,' she said. 'But I told him - 'You need to call your father for now on. Do not call me. I need to heal, and I need you to figure this out for yourself.'
That was Sunday, October 10. She did show up for his juvenile court appearance last Monday. She sat in the gallery while fuming at the boy's father who defied her wishes by showing up with his wife.
'He'd asked about bringing his wife and I said ''she's the reason you have been absent in (our son's) life. I hate her, I don't want her in the courthouse,'' she recalled telling him. 'I'm in the mix every day dealing with three probation officers, detectives, the Commonwealth and I don't know how many lawyers, and you're in your own little safety bubble in New Jersey.'
'And he didn't listen to me,' the mother told DailyMail.com, shaking her head and adding, 'They even brought a friend.'
On October 25, the teen was found guilty for the May 28 sexual assault at Stone Bridge High School. The judge 'substantiated' charges of forcible sodomy and forcible fellatio, the juvenile equivalent of a conviction.
He was sent back to juvenile detention, pending a hearing November 15 on the second case which occurred at Broad Run High School in the same county on October 6, a month after the district transferred him there.
In that incident, he allegedly pulled a girl into a classroom and inappropriately touched her.
The saga garnered worldwide attention as details were leaked. Irate parents accused the district of a coverup, questioning how a teen with a pending rape case was allowed to stay in the district to commit another sex crime.
The first victim's father Scott Smith, meanwhile, blasted trans bathroom rules that he said allowed a 'gender fluid' boy to enter the bathroom and rape his daughter, fanning a national debate over transgender bathroom policy.
It wasn't long before stories about the teen's past began to surface and spread among parents and activists who were demanding to know what else the district may have covered up.
One involved an incident from fifth grade, when the boy was 11 and sent nude photos of himself to a female classmate. Sources told DailyMail.com that police got involved but that the girl's parents decided against pursuing charges, so long as the district kept him away from their daughter.
The mom confirmed the account, but snapped, 'What the f**k does that have to do with anything?'
She said the politics surrounding the case has gotten out of hand.
'What are they trying to do?' she asked. 'Did they hire an investigator to dig up everything and ruin him for the rest of his life?'
The mother made no secret of the fact her son had been repeatedly suspended for misbehavior, including fist fights with classmates.
'He's been a challenging child his whole life, which I've dealt with myself,' the mother said. 'My son's gone through multiple forms of counseling and therapy, resources here, at school, friends, family. It's been 15 years of hell trying to get him to do better and be better.'
Born in New Jersey, her son was just a baby when she and the father split. She packed up and left for Virginia in late 2007.
She enrolled her son in elementary school in Fairfax County before moving to Loudoun County. She described him as a smart kid who took several AP classes but didn't do much homework and earned average grades.
He'd frequently act out, she said, and she'd do her best to dissect each incident with him.
After he sent the lewd photos in fifth grade, the mom said, 'I walked him through every message exchange, photo exchange, and broke it down.
'I was like, 'Okay, this is what you sent,' she recalled telling him. 'What were you thinking? What were you hoping to get out of this?' and then I'd be like, 'This is not respectful. I did not raise you to be like this.'
The boy would spend Christmas with his dad in New Jersey. After Christmas 2018, she said, 'He came back more defiant than usual' and asked to live with his father and stepmom. He spent the next year-plus in the Garden State. It was during that period that he started having sex at age 13, the mom said.
In June 2020, he moved back in with his mom. The next year, his world imploded.
The rape happened the afternoon of May 28, the Friday before Memorial Day.
His victim admitted they'd previously had sex in the bathroom and that they'd arranged to meet there again at lunchtime.
According to her testimony, he followed her into a stall, where she told him she was not in the mood for sex, but he threw her on the floor and forced her to perform sex acts.
'He flipped me over,' she reportedly said in court. 'I was on the ground and couldn't move and he sexually assaulted me.'
He only stopped, she said, when someone else walked in.
She reported it, and the investigation began.
Later that same day, the boy's mom was summoned to the school, where they told her there'd been an incident involving her son.
She wasn't given details and left the school without knowing what he'd done.
So she took her son to a nearby library where she sat him down on a bench to ask.
'And so, I got his side of the story,' the mom said. 'At that point, I was like, okay, well this is going to be a sh*tstorm.'
The teen told his mother about his past 'hookups' with the girl and noted that on May 28, they were planning to get together again in the bathroom.
But that day, she was sick. He told his mom that he'd accompanied her to the bathroom earlier in the day to make sure she was okay.
'He said she wasn't feeling well that day and that was the reason they entered the bathroom a first time that day,' the mom told DailyMail.com. 'He was worried about her, asked her how she was feeling, touched her forehead, brought water for her.'
According to the son, they talked about having sex later in the day.
'He'd mentioned something about hooking up with her, said they'd discussed it that day and that she was wishy-washy, was like, yeah, 'maybe, I still don't feel well, we'll see,' the mom recalled.
He followed her into the bathroom a second time that afternoon.
'It started with, 'Are you feeling okay' and her responding that she was feeling much better than this morning,' she said, relaying her son's account. 'And he advanced.'