Scottish court orders former Walter Johnson lacrosse coach to return to U.S. to face charges related to 2018 murder, kidnapping plot

Reporter Caitlynn Peetz, from Bethesda Beat, full article here.

Opinion of the Scottish Court here.

A former Walter Johnson High School lacrosse coach accused of a plot to murder parents and kidnap five kids in Virginia has lost his attempt to stay in the United Kingdom, where he has been for three years.

A Scottish court last week denied Gary Blake Reburn’s attempt to avoid extradition to the United States to face criminal charges.

Reburn, 58, is one of four people accused of devising a plan to kidnap five children from two homes in a Mennonite community in Dayton, Va., southwest of Harrisonburg.

And:

Reburn worked for MCPS between 2012 and August 2018, according to district officials. He was the Walter Johnson High School girls lacrosse team coach.

According to the Walter Johnson High School athletics website, Reburn was a karate instructor and was previously employed by Lifematters, a home care company. Reburn played Division III college lacrosse at Mount St. Mary’s University, according to the website.

WJ lacrosse coach Gary Reburn: what the team didn’t get to say

Walking into my first girls’ varsity lacrosse practice, the seniors obviously had rules for us freshman to follow. Expecting mandatory clean up and duty as packing mules, I was stunned and a little scared when the first rule was to never go to coach Gary Reburn’s car alone.

Every girl on the lacrosse team who had interacted with Reburn, regardless of age, knew there was something off with our varsity coach. From his borderline offensive teasing, to his touchy mannerisms, we knew to keep our distance.

The parents were even suspicious of the way he ran the team. Prior to my freshman year, news broke that Reburn was a part of a dating website, Ashley Madison. This website, sporting the slogan “Life’s short, have an affair,” linked married men and women together in order to fuel secret romances...

https://www.wjpitch.com/top-stories/2020/01/22/wj-lacrosse-coach-gary-reburn-what-the-team-didnt-get-to-say/

Jennifer Gross: Board of Education has "willfully and intentionally left massive loopholes in their Employee Code of Conduct"

Jennifer Marie Gross

This article is maddening for several reasons not the least of which is the fact that MCPS is once again making ridiculous statements about what they did not know. The fact is, they don't know if there have ever been reports about him before because they have willfully and intentionally left massive loopholes in their Employee Code of Conduct that specifically state they do not have to document all concerns and they have also left a clause in that I call the "nice guys get a pass and jerks get disciplined" Since the day I forced them to implement their code of conduct and I saw these loopholes, I have tried to get them taken out and yet, as of this morning they are still in the code.

So...parents, when you see MCPS say things like, MCPS spokeswoman Gboyinde Onijala said Friday that MCPS officials were not told of any allegations of misconduct or inappropriate behavior by Reburn while he was employed. "We take all reports, complaints and concerns from community members, students and staff seriously,” Onijala said. “I feel very strongly if any allegations were brought forward, (the administration) would have acted swiftly.”
PLEASE know, that's a lie. Plain and simple.

https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/bethesda/lacrosse-player-says-former-walter-johnson-girls-coach-made-her-and-teammates-uncomfortable/#disqus_thread

For anyone interested in more details of my comment above, please see this document I wrote per the request of a member of the BOE (who never responded once I submitted it). I did get a response from MCPS who stated I was instilling a culture of fear and preventing them from responding in a trauma informed way. Telling the truth about child sexual abuse and demanding systems protect children is trauma informed. 

What is not trauma informed is the MCPS spokesperson saying offensive, victim shaming and blaming things in this article like, "she wrote that “there are students and community members who have expressed concern over [Salvatore’s column] because they did not experience or witness any of the things the student mentions in her opinion piece.” That is exactly what a lot of people at Cloverly said and yet, John Vigna sits in prison for sexually abusing multiple children in an MCPS classroom. Apparently no one in MCPS has yet learned anything about child sexual abuse.

https://www.jennifergross.net/uploads/2/6/7/2/26721646/changes_needed_by_mcps__2018.pdf?fbclid=IwAR0gcpq3-CFJMaucSRsE0LabA8wDSALdVUyxVHrGua0lfbHNgd-iyBEPTZY

2018 Jennifer Gross Stateme... by Parents' Coalition of Montg...

Ex-Bethesda lacrosse coach arrested in bizarre murder, kidnapping plot

A former Bethesda, Maryland, high school lacrosse coach is under arrest in connection with an attempted murder and kidnapping case so bizarre that even federal prosecutors say it reads “like the script of a bad horror movie.”..

...According to the documents, Hayes convinced a Florida couple, Frank and Jennifer Amnott, to help her and Reburn kidnap five children from two Mennonite families living in rural Dayton, Virginia. Hayes had told the couple that three of the children were actually hers and had been stolen from her, prosecutors said...

https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2019/12/ex-bethesda-lacrosse-coach-arrested-in-bizarre-murder-kidnapping-plot/

and

https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdva/pr/florida-man-pleads-guilty-life-sentence-plot-kidnap-children-and-murder-parents