PART 6 - WHAT @mcps @mocoboe DID NOT DO in 2011: They did not FIRE a teacher with KNOWN Inappropriate Interactions with Elementary Students. Did they even Report to CPS or the Police?

@mcps @mocoboe Let's Review What You Knew About Former Broad Acres ES Teacher Richard W. Scherer Back in 2011 While We Wait for Your Official Statement.

The Parents' Coalition of Montgomery County, MD has obtained a copy of the Criminal Complaint and the Affidavit in support of the criminal complaint in the arrest of former MCPS Broad Acres Elementary School teacher Richard Scherer. 

In Part 6 of our series on the information revealed by the FBI in their Criminal Complaint on former MCPS Broad Acres Elementary School teacher Richard W. Scherer the public learns that back in 2011, MCPS and the Board of Education initiated an internal investigation into teacher Richard W. Scherer's interactions with students.  

The MCPS Investigation Specialists report revealed that:

• on August 18, 2011, SCHERER received certain details of the MCPS investigation,

•  and that he submitted his retirement on September 1, 2011

MCPS and the Montgomery County Board of Education let TWO WEEKS go by after they informed Mr. Scherer of their investigation. 

In 2011, the first day of school for students was Monday, August 29th. 

Was the information that had been substantiated in the MCPS Investigation Specialists Report turned over to Child Protective Services?  Was the information turned over to Montgomery County Police? 

Why was a teacher with known inappropriate interactions with children allowed to retire?  

Aren't inappropriate interactions with children an offense that would result in a MCPS employee being fired?

So far, there are FOUR MCPS employees who as MANDATORY REPORTERS should have reported instances of suspected sexual abuse of children to Montgomery County Police or Child Protective Services in 2011.  

Broad Acres Elementary Principal

Broad Acres Assistant Principal

MCPS Investigation Specialist

MCPS Associate Superintendent

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AFFIDAVIT IN SUPPORT OF A CRIMINAL COMPLAINT I, Randall E. Garver, being duly sworn, depose and say: 

1. I am a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and entered on duty in May 2006. I am currently assigned to the Buffalo Field Office and work on cases associated with the Violent Crimes Against Children program, which targets individuals involved in the online sexual exploitation of children...

...The [MCPS Investigation Specialists] report stated that on August 18, 2011, SCHERER received certain details of the MCPS investigation and that he submitted his retirement on September 1, 2011...

 More excerpts from the Affidavit will follow in separate posts on this blog.