...Marinda Thomas Evans, principal of New Hampshire Estates Elementary School, said Friday parents were alerted about the arrest via the school’s ConnectEd phone message system on Thursday night. She said an additional letter is expected to go home with students recapping the incident.The Parents' Coalition has obtained the Statement of Charges from the February 27, 2013, arrest of MCPS teacher Lawrence Joynes. The Statement of Charges is reproduced below with the names of children redacted.
“We have no reason to believe that” any Montgomery County students were involved in the pornography images, she told The Gazette Friday... Gazette, March 1, 2013
Read the Statement of Charges and see if you think the New Hampshire Estates Principal should have made the above statement. The Statement of Charges very clearly states, "The background of the videos appeared to be in a music class room."
Note that additional charges were filed as to Mr. Joynes in May and August of this year. This document is just the first Statement of Charges that was filed in Baltimore County Circuit Court on February 27, 2013.
At the time Ms. Evans made the statement, had she actually seen the statement of charges, or did she know only that Mr. Joynes had been arrested?
ReplyDeleteWhat difference does it make? She knew he was on restriction from his ability to interact with students, remember?
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