FCPS investigating alleged instances of staff arranging abortions for students

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Anonymous wrote:I am still not clear exactly what it is alleged that these parents did.

There is a requirement to tell parents or legal guardians at least 24 hours before a minor has an abortion, and to get their consent notarized. But that seems to be the responsibility of the abortion provider. Of course, if the FCPS employee lied about the students' age, or counseled the student to lie, or helped them forge consent, or presented themselves as the parent, then that's probably illegal.

If the social worker paid with school funds, that's also illegal.

Transporting students anywhere is likely a violation of school policy, but not necessarily illegal.

But I am pretty sure that a student talking about abortion, has a right to confidentiality in a therapeutic relationship like that between social worker and her client. The social worker needs to break confidentiality and call CPS if there is evidence of abuse, and if they didn't that's a violation of mandated reporting laws. But otherwise, I'm not sure the social worker has the obligation to tell the parents, and their professional ethics may not allow them to tell the parents. The abortion provider was the one to tell the parents, although again, if the social worker deceived the provider about the students' age, or posed as parent, then that's a problem again.

I think more information needs to come out to know exactly which, if any, laws were broken, and by who.

Again. There are ways around it. But, the school should not have been the way. It should have been CPS.

If the social worker had reason to believe that the girl had been abused by a family member or school staff, or was at risk for abuse, then yes. But otherwise no. A 17 year old is legally able to consent to sex, and even if the sex was not consensual, that is a matter for the police not CPS barring parent/teacher involvement.

Referring a teenager over the age of consent who is asking for an abortion to a clinic that has professionals on staff with experience guiding young people through either telling their parents or getting judicial approval seems like an appropriate way to handle a situation.

Coercing a kid who doesn’t want an abortion, paying for the abortion with school funds, helping the kid misrepresent their age or whatever they did to get around parental notification — all those things are wrong. But it is not yet clear if those things happened.

No. The school should turn it over to CPS. It is not the job of the school system.

You keep posting over and over about referring to CPS. Child Protective Services has no role to play in a 17 year old's pregnancy. There is nothing to report unless the 17 year old reports abuse. 17 is consenting age.

This is yet another political setup.

DP. CPS might not be the appropriate agency, but here is FCPS regulations on counseling pregnant students. As you can see, they make it crystal clear that in NO WAY should FCPS staff have any influence over a student's decision and in NO WAY should any of this be kept from the parents:

III. GUIDELINES
School counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, and other staff members
shall be aware and follow the guidelines below regarding counseling pregnant students and
distributing literature about pregnancy, birth control, venereal disease, and private and public
agencies providing services for pregnant students.
A. Every effort shall be made to encourage and support students suspecting pregnancy to
discuss their concern with their parents or guardians. Offers may be made to meet jointly
with the parents or guardians and the student at school. In no case shall personnel commit
themselves to maintain such information confidentially, keeping it from parents, guardians,
or appropriate school authorities.
B. If a student requests counseling services or is considered to be in need of such services,
school staff members should refer the student to the public health nurse or Fairfax County
Department of Health and avoid influencing the student regarding the pregnancy.

https://go.boarddocs.com/vsba/fairfax/Board.nsf/files/BE5NKY60460E/$file/R2504.pdf

That doesn't say what you think it says. It says that in no way should the staff commit to (promise) not telling the parents. That the possibility of telling parents should remain open. That isn't the same as saying they need to tell the parents. It also says that while they should offer to help the students tell parents, they can also refer to outside counseling through the Health Department.

Referring the students to an organization that provides this counseling, as well as health services once the student has decided and the parental notification requirement has been met, may well have been appropriate. At this point we don't know. We don't know if the students requested an abortion, and then one changed their mind, or if the staff member pushed the idea. We don't know if the clinic was run by the Health Department. We don't know if the clinic failed to notified parents because they were lied to about student age or something similar, or if they made that mistake on their own. We don't know who paid.

It's quite possible that the social worker or the principal crossed a line. It's quite possible that they broke the law. But the information we have is not clear.

The school social worker and the principal should have NO involvement other than to turn it over to the Health Dept. This is not the school's job. If the girl wants help to tell her parents, I think that is okay. But, no trips to clinic. If the parents are involved, that is their job. If the parents are not involved, let the Health Department deal with it.

One of the reports mentioned that an uncle was the legal guardian. There could be a large can of worms there, too. Even more reason that it should have been the Health Department and not the school. This child could have been an unaccompanied minor and perhaps even trafficked. This is far beyond work the school should be involved in doing.

The Health Department runs clinics. Referring someone to the health department for counseling, means referring them to a clinic as that is where counseling occurs. The name that's reported in the article that I read seems to be a clinic that doesn't exist, so it could well have been a Health Department Clinic.

Or not. It's quite possible that what you imagine happening, what the ultra right wing publications that broke this story want you to imagine happened. It's also possible that something entirely different happened. Maybe at some point the truth will be untangled. Maybe it won't.

DP. Your "maybe it will / maybe it won't" posts are tiresome. You're stating the obvious. Also - "ultra right wing"?? Spare us all. We all deserve to know exactly what happened here, regardless of politics.

No you don't it is a private matter. The young girls MYOB

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https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/father-allegedly-sexually-assaulted-daughter-age-9-21-she-gave-birth-3-kids-149-counts-incest-abuse-testimony-deputy-man-kid-child-indicted-cincinnati-investigation-day-suffering-neglect-babies

You think this daughter should have had the school tell her parents if she wanted an abortion?

Anyone on this forum that thinks their opinion in this matters needs to shut up.

Pro choice! MYOB. It is not your right to know anything about what these girls went through. Not your right to judge them.

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Anonymous wrote:https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/father-allegedly-sexually-assaulted-daughter-age-9-21-she-gave-birth-3-kids-149-counts-incest-abuse-testimony-deputy-man-kid-child-indicted-cincinnati-investigation-day-suffering-neglect-babies

You think this daughter should have had the school tell her parents if she wanted an abortion?

Anyone on this forum that thinks their opinion in this matters needs to shut up.

Pro choice! MYOB. It is not your right to know anything about what these girls went through. Not your right to judge them.

I don't need to know what the girls went through. I do need to know that school is following law and turning it over to proper authorities which is not 5he SCHOOL.

[Anonymous]

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Sex abuse is way under reported. This must change. Rapists must be investigated and jailed.

I'm sorry did you miss the part that 30% of this country thinks a Rapist, sex offender, child abuser should stay president and is a God?

Republcians do not care if girls are raped or if incest occurs or child porn. The Catholic church is a prime example of how Christians rally around the abusers. Same with Church youth Pastors etc, or people like the Duggars.

Pick up any newspaper in the US weekly some church going shit has been arrested for child porn or some sex act aganist a minor, but he's an upstanding ciitzen according to his church. Trump's spiritual advisor got arrested for this exact thing.

Exactly

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A Missouri Republican state senator this week suggested that children as young as 12 should be able to get married.

Oklahoma allows minors younger than 16 to marry if authorized by a court order, potentially in cases like pregnancy or paternity suits.

Whatever happened in this case in Fairfax, these girls had every right and so did the workers, to do what they did.

It never was Drag Queens, Republicans are the party of pedos.

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Anonymous wrote:https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/father-allegedly-sexually-assaulted-daughter-age-9-21-she-gave-birth-3-kids-149-counts-incest-abuse-testimony-deputy-man-kid-child-indicted-cincinnati-investigation-day-suffering-neglect-babies

You think this daughter should have had the school tell her parents if she wanted an abortion?

Anyone on this forum that thinks their opinion in this matters needs to shut up.

Pro choice! MYOB. It is not your right to know anything about what these girls went through. Not your right to judge them.

I don't need to know what the girls went through. I do need to know that school is following law and turning it over to proper authorities which is not 5he SCHOOL.

And that’s why we DGAF what you think.

The rest of us absolutely care about the circumstances. Because we aren’t heartless POSs.

[Anonymous]

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Sex abuse is way under reported. This must change. Rapists must be investigated and jailed.

Most pedophiles in the news these days seem to be teachers or coaches, hence the question, would you allow a male daycare worker near ypur child?

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Anonymous wrote:A Missouri Republican state senator this week suggested that children as young as 12 should be able to get married.

Oklahoma allows minors younger than 16 to marry if authorized by a court order, potentially in cases like pregnancy or paternity suits.

Whatever happened in this case in Fairfax, these girls had every right and so did the workers, to do what they did.

It never was Drag Queens, Republicans are the party of pedos.

Sexual abuse is one of the worst abominable crimes, let alone when the victim is a child or a minor. That being said, the perpetrators ought to be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, regardless of political affiliation or level of immunity.

Fortunately, the current administration is doing something about a pressing situation:

https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/25/ice-arrests-criminal-illegal-aliens-convicted-child-rape-arson-and-human-smuggling

The following three cases are not GOP affiliated, yet somehow you neglected to include them in your comments:

https://apnews.com/article/d318a84d6e614b44931feb1a469be66b

https://www.newsweek.com/pennsylvania-sex-offender-surrogacy-loophole-brandon-keith-riley-mitchell-2107138

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6igUGNXs0UU

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The whistle blower teacher at Centreville said she notified the principal multiple times over the past three years, and pretty close in time to when the events occurred. The principal was on notice when the second abortion attempt occurred. She also kept detailed records and recordings. What a disaster for FCPS

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Sex abuse is way under reported. This must change. Rapists must be investigated and jailed.

I'm sorry did you miss the part that 30% of this country thinks a Rapist, sex offender, child abuser should stay president and is a God?

Republcians do not care if girls are raped or if incest occurs or child porn. The Catholic church is a prime example of how Christians rally around the abusers. Same with Church youth Pastors etc, or people like the Duggars.

Pick up any newspaper in the US weekly some church going shit has been arrested for child porn or some sex act aganist a minor, but he's an upstanding ciitzen according to his church. Trump's spiritual advisor got arrested for this exact thing.

I missed all that because it's some liberal fantasy in your head. Keep it to yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Sex abuse is way under reported. This must change. Rapists must be investigated and jailed.

I'm sorry did you miss the part that 30% of this country thinks a Rapist, sex offender, child abuser should stay president and is a God?

Republcians do not care if girls are raped or if incest occurs or child porn. The Catholic church is a prime example of how Christians rally around the abusers. Same with Church youth Pastors etc, or people like the Duggars.

Pick up any newspaper in the US weekly some church going shit has been arrested for child porn or some sex act aganist a minor, but he's an upstanding ciitzen according to his church. Trump's spiritual advisor got arrested for this exact thing.

I missed all that because it's some liberal fantasy in your head. Keep it to yourself.

That poster is not wrong.

[Anonymous]

Well, from the story out today, it appears that the girl was driven to the clinic by her boyfriend. She had just turned 17, so was 16 when she became pregnant.

Now, I guess the boyfriend could have been an adult abuser, but I really have no idea. We have been told that the guardian was an uncle.

Nevertheless this has nothing to do with politics. And, PP is demeaning the seriousness with those attacks.

I've stated on here a number of times. This should not have been handled by the school in any way except to put the child in contact with the Health Department if she did not want her guardian to be involved. That would have been the legal way. Why is this so hard to understand? Results would likely have been the same, but it is not the school's job in any way.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Youngkin and GOP loons are all over DCUrbanMoms looking for any story that will
stick or a narrative they can sell to fear monger. Beware. They do this every election cycle. People fell for the nonsense lies and made up scandals before, don't do it again. Virginia deserves better than these loons
who see fear and hate and spread negativity.

THIS. A thousand times. THIS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Sex abuse is way under reported. This must change. Rapists must be investigated and jailed.

I'm sorry did you miss the part that 30% of this country thinks a Rapist, sex offender, child abuser should stay president and is a God?

Republcians do not care if girls are raped or if incest occurs or child porn. The Catholic church is a prime example of how Christians rally around the abusers. Same with Church youth Pastors etc, or people like the Duggars.

Pick up any newspaper in the US weekly some church going shit has been arrested for child porn or some sex act aganist a minor, but he's an upstanding ciitzen according to his church. Trump's spiritual advisor got arrested for this exact thing.

I missed all that because it's some liberal fantasy in your head. Keep it to yourself.

That poster is not wrong.

We get it, you're delusional also. No need to brag.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Sex abuse is way under reported. This must change. Rapists must be investigated and jailed.

Most pedophiles in the news these days seem to be teachers or coaches, hence the question, would you allow a male daycare worker near ypur child?

Society needs to operate in such a way as to allow mothers or grandmothers to watch children.

Frankly, daycare is unnatural and bad for children anyway.