What’s Current: Grand Jury report finds Loudon County educators looked out ‘for their own interests’ over student safety

  • Grand jury report finds educators in Loudon County, Virginia were “looking out for their own interests,” resulting in the mishandling of two sexual assault cases involving a male student raping a female student in the girls’ bathroom. The report states:

“There were several decision points for senior LCPS administrators, up to and including the superintendent, to be transparent and step in and alter the sequence of events leading up to the October 6, 2021 (Broad Run High School) sexual assault.

They failed at every juncture.”

  • New guidelines from Sport New Zealand say trans-identified athletes in New Zealand are allowed to compete in sex-segregated community sports according to their gender identity.
  • Anti-abortion protestors gather outside Malta’s parliament to demand the government halt plans to amend the country’s hardline abortion law, which restricts women from terminating a pregnancy no matter the circumstance.
  • U.K.-based trans lobby group Mermaids refuses to show its workers a report into former charity head Susie Green’s leadership due to a lack of “safe spaces” to read it.
Meghan McCarty

Meghan McCarty is an undergraduate student and aspiring journalist living in the United States.