McKnight Became Superintendent and MCPS stopped posting Notification Letters on MCPS Child Abuse and Neglect Webpage

Over many years, advocates for the protection of children from sexual abuse/harassment/rape in MCPS schools pushed for MCPS to post all of the Community Notification Letters relating to these matters that they sent out in one place. These letters would serve as a reference for past and current families and students.  

MCPS did that. For a time.

But when Superintendent Monifa McKnight took over MCPS, those notification letters stopped being posted to the MCPS Child Abuse and Neglect website. 

The last Community Notification Letter to be posted was in December of 2021.  

The purpose of this listing is that so this information is available to anyone in Montgomery County, not just those families who have children in one school at the time of the incident, arrest or conviction.  Why is that important? Because MCPS has a long history of moving around suspected and known sexual predators. Often when an arrest is made parents discover that the MCPS employee had worked in multiple classrooms, schools or locations. 

When Monifa McKnight became MCPS Superintendent, MCPS became less transparent about these cases.

Here are some of the Community Notification Letters that could have gone out after December of 2021 and are not shown on the MCPS Child Abuse and Neglect website. 

FY 2023:

• A security assistant was arrested on one count of sexual abuse of a minor and one count of 

displaying obscene items to a minor. 

• A volunteer football coach was arrested on multiple charges of sexual offenses. 

• A football coach was arrested on multiple charges of sexual offenses. 

• A volunteer photographer was arrested on multiple charges of sexual abuse of a minor. 

• A building service worker was arrested on multiple charges of sexual offenses, including a 

charge of sexual abuse of a minor. 

Melissa Curtis:  https://parentscoalitionmc.blogspot.com/2023/11/what-did-mcps-mocoboe-know-and-when-did.html

FY 2022: 

- A bus operator is charged with one count of sexual abuse of a minor and one count second degree assault stemming from his work as a private driving instructor.