Loundon County Dad receives pardon from Governor

[SpiderMaam]

Good news - the dad who was arrested at a school board meeting after his 15 year old daughter was sexually assaulted in the girls’ toilets by a boy in a skirt has been pardoned by the Governor of Virginia

CNN’s article is predictably mealy mouthed and culture-war stoking:

https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/10/politics/glenn-youngkin-scott-smith-pardon/index.html

Excellent news, though it took long enough to get this injustice halted.

The Daily Wire (who were first to report the case) report is here: Glenn Youngkin Grants ‘Absolute Pardon’ To Loudoun Dad Arrested At School Board Meeting

And the National Review story is here: ‘We Righted a Wrong’: Virginia Governor Pardons Father Whose Daughter Was Sexually Assaulted at School

Both have reader comments.

Look how CNN dismiss a traumatic sexual assault on a girl at school - which could have been avoided if the school had followed basic safeguarding - as just an "anti-transgender talking point".

It's not a little bit of chat chat, or a warm-up exercise at a conference. A child was hurt. It couldn't be more important.

It was a disgraceful incident and unbelievably demonstrates the extremes that supporters of this ideology will go to to ensure that the demands of rapists will be prioritised over the safety and rights of the girls and women that they rape.

Pardons him? How big of them.

And what about his poor daughter?

FFS.

You 'righted a wrong' by pardoning the father of a girl? Excuse me WHAT THE FUCK? How the FUCK have you righted the fact she was raped as a direct response of your bullshit prioritisation of a 'trans' male over her safety?

Apologise formally and unreservedly to that poor girl. You utter bastards.

https://twitter.com/ButaBiberaj/status/1700983375153205358

'Due to your intervention and gag order, we didn't find out about the first rape until September. You and your friends knew the day it happened. As a result, the rapist was able to assault additional minor victims at another school. You belong in prison for abetting a rapist.'

So the elected Democratic commonwealth attorney [similar to a stage attorney?) says the pardon only happened because the Republican governor has an election battle coming up?

And it was that same attorney’s office that tried to sweep the serious sexual assault under the carpet (and that meant a second girl was sexually assaulted)?

Holy shit, Virginia’s government makes the Tories look half decent!

Just looked up what happened to the perpetrator, the judges comments are eye opening:

https://nypost.com/2022/01/13/teen-sentenced-for-sex-attacks-that-sparked-loudoun-county-protests/amp/