Listen to Delegate C.T. Wilson's presentation in the video below about why it is hard for the victims of sexual abuse to come forward. Listen as he talks about how institutions like the Catholic Church are opposed to this legislation.
Institutions.
Institutions including Montgomery County Public Schools that kept an Inappropriate Interactions Database of suspected sexual predators and "investigated" allegations themselves rather than reporting those suspected sexual predators to the Police and Child Protective Services.
While those Board of Education members in 2015 were joking about having an Inappropriate Interactions Database, MCPS elementary school teacher John Vigna was in a classroom full of little children at the same time he had multiple reprimands in his personnel file telling him to stop lap sitting with the little girls.
- Watch this video from 2015, where Montgomery County Board of Education members joked about the MCPS Inappropriate Interactions Database: Friday, June 19, 2015 Breaking News: MCPS May Shut Down "Infamous" Secret Database of Staff Suspected of Sexually Abusing Students. Kauffman calls it the "infamous" database, Smondrowski laughs.
John Vigna was not arrested until 2016. Keeping suspected sexual predators in classrooms was happening in 2015 and was not something for the Board of Education to joke about.
Delegate C.T. Wilson's legislation also applies to past victims of sexual abuse in Montgomery County Public Schools.
How many victims of sexual abuse by MCPS teachers and staff have not yet come forward?
http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/mgawebsite/Legislation/Details/HB0974
ReplyDeleteWho to contact now to support this legislation: ct.wilson@house.state.md.us
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