Part 2 - WHAT @mcps @mocoboe KNEW in 2011: "SCHERER has lunch with a particular student, “he pulls her to him and hugs her, that he has patted her rear end and hips, and that he pressures her to each lunch with him.' "

@mcps @mocoboe Let's Review What You Knew About Former Broad Acres ES Teacher Richard 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 the Affidavit the public learns that the parent of a 4th Grade student came to Broad Acres Elementary School (the only MCPS school Richard W. Scherer worked at according to MCPS) on June 13, 2011, to make a report about inappropriate behavior on the part of Mr. Scherer.

• The parent made the complaint to the Broad Acres Elementary School Assistant Principal.  

• The Board of Education KNOWS THE NAME OF THE PARENT who filed the complaint. 

• The Board of Education allowed MCPS to do their OWN INVESTIGATION of these allegations. An MCPS Investigation Specialist investigated and wrote a report.

• The MCPS Investigation Specialist's Report was sent to a MCPS ASSOCIATE SUPERINTENDENT.

• Why did the Board of Education allow MCPS to do their own investigation when educators are MANDATORY REPORTERS in Maryland and Montgomery County Police and Child Protective Services should have been notified IMMEDIATELY.  

How many other sexual abuse allegations did MCPS INVESTIGATION SPECIALISTS investigate without contacting Montgomery County Police or Child Protective Services? 

Potential victims of these alleged crimes would now be around 19 years old. Some could still be in a MCPS high school.

So far, there were THREE MCPS employees who as MANDATORY REPORTERS should have reported this alleged sexual abuse to Montgomery County Police or Child Protective Services in 2011.  

Broad Acres Elementary 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...

...During my review, I found an August 22, 2011, memorandum authored by an MCPS Investigation Specialist that was sent to one of MCPS’s Associate Superintendents. The memo was a summary, with attachments, of the MCPS investigation. The report stated, “On June 13, 2011, the parent of a 4th grade student, [redacted by MCPS], came to the school and made a report to an assistant principal about some concerns she had regarding possible inappropriate behavior by Mr. Scherer while interacting with students.” The report stated that the student related that when SCHERER has lunch with a particular student, “he pulls her to him and hugs her, that he has patted her rear end and hips, and that he pressures her to each lunch with him.” The parent advised that her daughter and the daughter’s friend are often pressured to each lunch with SCHERER...

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