BREAKING: Loudoun Official Claimed He Might Not Have Seen Email Informing Him Of Sex Assault — Despite Responding To It

Internal Loudoun County School Board emails show a shifting explanation about how much school board members knew about a bathroom sex assault, with one member writing to the superintendent in the wake of cover-up allegations that he might have “missed an email” informing him about it — even though he previously responded to that very email asking a follow-up question, after also hearing about the incident from someone else.

“From my memory I recall” only learning about it “during the public comment process,” Democrat board member Harris Mahedavi wrote to the superintendent on October 12, one day after The Daily Wire revealed that a girl had been raped in a bathroom May 28, that the superintendent had denied it in a public board meeting June 22, and that the school system had quietly transferred the assailant to another school, where he was arrested for a different sex assault October 6.

As has been previously reported, immediately after the May rape, Ziegler wrote to the school board members saying, “The purpose of this email is to provide you with information regarding an incident that occurred at Stone Bridge HS. This afternoon a female student alleged that a male student sexually assaulted her in the restroom.”

Three weeks later, on June 22, Ziegler said in a public board meeting that “To my knowledge, we don’t have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms.” None of the school board members raised the discrepancy.

But a week after that, on June 28, it was on the mind of school board members, the newly obtained emails show.

Mahedavi replied to the May 28 email that day, writing: “Dr. Ziegler, Has there been any update on this case that you can share with the board?”

Ziegler replied: “This matter is under investigation by law enforcement, and I am unable to provide an update.”

The same day, school board member Beth Barts also wrote the superintendent, suggesting she had heard of a sexual assault from parents: “In addition to understanding where LCPS is in regards to the allegations of sexual assault (per the parents) I would like to know how LCPS will handle the rally Wednesday?”

Ziegler did not address the question about sexual assault in his reply, but only informed her that he would lock up the administration building to make it “unavailable to attendees” at an event of angry parents. Barts — who asked the question to which Ziegler answered “no,” without

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