Wednesday, August 25, 2021

DC Prosecutor: the [Walt Whitman HS - Kirkland Shipley] investigation is continuing and she wanted a restrictive stay-away order so other current or former students could “feel safe coming forward.”

Walt Whitman High School teacher, community rowing coach charged with sexual abuse


...Shipley’s attorney, Amy Phillips of the D.C. Public Defender Service, argued in court that an initial version of the stay-away order proposed by the prosecution was overly broad, encompassing all former Whitman students.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Caroline Burrell narrowed her request to students Shipley had currently or previously coached or taught, noting that the criminal complaint identifies a second student who told police she had a sexual relationship with Shipley starting in 2013, after she had graduated but while she was 17.

Burrell said Shipley had been employed by Montgomery schools since 2001 and coaching crew since 2002. Before that, she said, he taught at a school in the District.

The prosecutor noted that both students told police they exchanged sexually explicit text messages with Shipley. Burrell said the investigation is continuing and she wanted a restrictive stay-away order so other current or former students could “feel safe coming forward.”..

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/rowing-coach-shipley-abuse-charges/2021/08/24/1ac67bca-0504-11ec-8c3f-3526f81b233b_story.html

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