Promises made, promises kept.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin continued to make good on a campaign commitment to hold public schools accountable this weekend when he pardoned a dad who'd been arrested for defending his daughter after she was sexually assaulted in a public school bathroom by a boy pretending to be a girl.
In 2021, Scott Smith was forcibly hauled away at a school board meeting and charged with obstruction of justice and disorderly conduct after he demanded answers following his 15-year-old daughter’s assault in the bathroom of Stone Bridge High School in Northern Virginia, which evidence later showed the school board and school administrators tried to cover up in an attempt to protect their “bathroom policy” allowing biological boys to use the girl’s restroom.
During the meeting, Smith blasted school board members for lying to the public by claiming that their transgender “inclusive” bathroom policy had lead to zero reported cases of sexual assault, effectively covering up his daughter’s rape - which had been reported to police and was known to administrators at the time - to protect their pro-LGBTQ agenda. Smith was arrested and later convicted of disorderly conduct and obstruction of justice, and was given a suspended sentence of 10 days in jail.
Meanwhile, a 15-year-old “gender fluid” male student was arrested and pleaded guilty to forced sodomy and forced fellatio for raping Smith’s daughter. The boy also reportedly assaulted another girl at Broad Run High School while awaiting trial, and while school administrators were busy publicly pretending the assault had never happened. He pleaded “no contest” to that charge.
In a statement accompanying his pardon, Youngkin, a Republican elected in large part thanks to concerned parents, said the charges against Smith were “unwarranted.”
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“Scott Smith is a dedicated parent who’s faced unwarranted charges in his pursuit to protect his daughter. Scott’s commitment to his child despite the immense obstacles is emblematic of the parental empowerment movement that started in Virginia,” he said.
“In Virginia, parents matter and my resolve to empower parents is unwavering. A parent’s fundamental right to be involved in their child’s education, upbringing, and care should never be undermined by bureaucracy, school divisions or the state. I am pleased to grant Scott Smith this pardon and help him and his family put this injustice behind them once and for all,” Youngkin added.
For his part, Smith told local reporters that while he’s obviously happy about the the pardon, the whole ordeal only proved to him that “in today’s America, getting a fair and free trial is next to impossible.”
“I think it’s pretty clear and convincing to the public that what happened to me that day should have never happened. I’m glad that this is finally over,” Smith said.
Unfortunately, public school systems’ crusade for the radical leftist LGBTQ agenda is far from over, and kids and their families will continue to be collateral damage.
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