Northwood Coach and Security Guard Arrested Child Sex Felony

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Anonymous wrote:This is absurd. Athletics in MCPS is a magnet for predators? Schools are paradise for predators? This is a systemic failure and cannot be treated as an isolated incident.

The list of MCPS community messages at the bottom of the following webpage demonstrate that child sexual abuse is a serious problem in MCPS. The community messages are only sent out after an arrest:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/childabuseandneglect/

MCPS website hasn’t been updated with the Reumante letter to the community, but his arrest would equal 8/29 arrests or 27% of arrests are of people affiliated with sport programs in MCPS schools. These are the arrests -

Giovanni Reumante
Kirkland Shipley
Christopher Papadopoulos
Maxwell Bero
Duke Williams
Thomas Ridges
Cory Boatman
Michael Riley (employed 30 years in MCPS including Athletic Director)

Other areas with high percentage of arrests are Special Education (17%) and after school programs (10%).

Sorry, I’m unfamiliar with a few of the names.

I had to look up Michael Riley… his actions date back to 1984, where is he now?

Who is Duke Williams?

Thomas Ridges- his actions that led to charges took place about a decade after he left Mcps. Were there additional charges from the time he was an MCPS employee?

Read the Letters to the Community in the link provided. And there was a typo - should be Dake Williams who is in the Williams letter.

Michael Riley - Google his name for the news records. He retired MCPS to work for a private school as a track coach. He was coaching when the arrest occurred.

A child predator is a predator no matter when the offense or where the offense occurs. For Thomas Ridges, why issue a Letter to the Community if his contact with children in the community during his employment by MCPS wasn’t relevant? Often, these letters go out to see if other victims will come forward.

Right, I’m all for getting these scumbags away from our school and athletic programs but the point is how do we examine what has happened in the past to prevent future cases of abuse. If a coach or school employee has not arrests or reports of sexual deviance against children, how are these creeps screened out during the vetting process? Many victims fail to report, which is understandable, but what options do districts have.

Is the whole, “MCPS knowingly hires child predators and protects them” argument valid?

You're missing the point.

The system rely on vetting them out during the hiring process. That system is obviously a failure. A new system that attempts to weed them at during the application process AND THEN continues to monitor them in the high risk groups (athletics and special needs) is sorely overdue.

The guilty parties are not suddenly in the students bedroom one day. They are grooming them for weeks, months, even years before hand. They are violating policy by having private communications, by being alone in cars, locker rooms, busses, by speaking to them in unprofessional manners publicly, by taking special interest in them and crossing g all sorts of lines that could have been caught and reprimanded beforehand. But MCPS failed to even attempt to do so.

I’m not missing the point, I’m not understanding how this looks like in action. Some things sound reasonable on paper, but what specific steps can an employer take to monitor employees. How many layers of checks and balances will it take? People already complain about money waste, and pay to play isn’t an option.

I have athletes both in and out of school. Every organization at this point deals with this similarly- safe sport policies, rules coaches must follow, educating students, and their parents. You’re forgetting that these pedophiles are criminals and are sneaky. Grooming is also hard to monitor as some creeps take months if not years to groom their victims. Even trained adults fail to see it. As a child that was sexually abused. My senses are heightened for this type of behavior. As an adult, I worked with a man that spent time in prison for sexually abusing elementary aged students. When it hit the news, I was floored. Later learned he would offer parents to give their children a ride home from activities. He also invited children for sleepovers. Apparently he’d sit in hot tubs at the camp and molest his victims. I want to vomit every time I see that man’s picture. This went on for years because children, and some parents didn’t report it. One parent finally listened, reported this man and once it hit the news more victims spoke up. I was around this man for years. I missed signs of grooming. Am I at fault for not noticing? He was a sneaky @sshole. Parents loved this man- kids around him appeared happy. I saw no favoritism- he had over a dozen victims, male and female. This man was highly recognized for his work with children. FWIW, this was years ago before cell phones & social media and messaging apps. I get the need for oversight- but what does that look like?

I’m not trying to be contradictory, as I think our goals are ultimately the same, but what can we do to protect our children? This is not unique to MCPS. MCPS is just a larger organization so will statistically have more cases.

This is what action looks like -

1) Parents and students need to read the Employee Code of Conduct. All athletes should have mandatory training that reinforces how they are supposed to be treated. If parents or students know of an employee violating the code of conduct, immediately report. If it’s a criminal offense like child abuse, report information to the police. If it’s not criminal, report in writing to the school principal or anonymously through the previous posted link.

2) MCPS needs to treat all violations of the MCPS Code of Conduct as early warning signs. Using your above example - red flags was a person who gave children rides in a personal vehicle, he would get into hot tubs with students, and he invited students over for sleepovers. With today’s technology, if there’s a written record of these events via private text messages, emails, or social media postings, that information should be considered a serious breach of conduct that is cause for dismissal. There’s always warning signs of misconduct before sexual abuse occurs.

3) Oversight would include either banning overnight travel by MCPS athletic teams or requiring school administrators to accompany the team. Reumante traveled to Portland for Nike Cross Nationals cross country meet in his capacity as a MCPS coach.

4) Oversight would also include athletic directors, assistant principals, school security, and principals doing routine spot checks on practices and games. Are rules for travel being followed? How are students being treated in practices? Is there proper supervision for the locker rooms?

5) Conduct an anonymous survey of athletes for every team during every season. This would be a way to gather athlete input in a manner that they aren’t afraid of retaliation. It would be a tool to learn of concerning behavior.

Just some ideas that differs from the current approach of leaving questionable people in coaching positions till the police makes the arrest. When the arrest happens, a child is already abused versus stopping the opportunity for abuse to occur.

[Anonymous]

Dr. McKnight and Dr. Sullivan needs to review and revise safety protocols for MCPS athletics. The numbers don’t lie. There’s a reason that a quarter of arrests of child predators are employed as MCPS coaches.

Coaching contracts are on a season to season basis. Close the loopholes that allow predators to blatantly violate the Code of Conduct but remain employed as a coach as long as an arrest is not made.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is absurd. Athletics in MCPS is a magnet for predators? Schools are paradise for predators? This is a systemic failure and cannot be treated as an isolated incident.

The list of MCPS community messages at the bottom of the following webpage demonstrate that child sexual abuse is a serious problem in MCPS. The community messages are only sent out after an arrest:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/childabuseandneglect/

MCPS website hasn’t been updated with the Reumante letter to the community, but his arrest would equal 8/29 arrests or 27% of arrests are of people affiliated with sport programs in MCPS schools. These are the arrests -

Giovanni Reumante
Kirkland Shipley
Christopher Papadopoulos
Maxwell Bero
Duke Williams
Thomas Ridges
Cory Boatman
Michael Riley (employed 30 years in MCPS including Athletic Director)

Other areas with high percentage of arrests are Special Education (17%) and after school programs (10%).

Sorry, I’m unfamiliar with a few of the names.

I had to look up Michael Riley… his actions date back to 1984, where is he now?

Who is Duke Williams?

Thomas Ridges- his actions that led to charges took place about a decade after he left Mcps. Were there additional charges from the time he was an MCPS employee?

Read the Letters to the Community in the link provided. And there was a typo - should be Dake Williams who is in the Williams letter.

Michael Riley - Google his name for the news records. He retired MCPS to work for a private school as a track coach. He was coaching when the arrest occurred.

A child predator is a predator no matter when the offense or where the offense occurs. For Thomas Ridges, why issue a Letter to the Community if his contact with children in the community during his employment by MCPS wasn’t relevant? Often, these letters go out to see if other victims will come forward.

Right, I’m all for getting these scumbags away from our school and athletic programs but the point is how do we examine what has happened in the past to prevent future cases of abuse. If a coach or school employee has not arrests or reports of sexual deviance against children, how are these creeps screened out during the vetting process? Many victims fail to report, which is understandable, but what options do districts have.

Is the whole, “MCPS knowingly hires child predators and protects them” argument valid?

You're missing the point.

The system rely on vetting them out during the hiring process. That system is obviously a failure. A new system that attempts to weed them at during the application process AND THEN continues to monitor them in the high risk groups (athletics and special needs) is sorely overdue.

The guilty parties are not suddenly in the students bedroom one day. They are grooming them for weeks, months, even years before hand. They are violating policy by having private communications, by being alone in cars, locker rooms, busses, by speaking to them in unprofessional manners publicly, by taking special interest in them and crossing g all sorts of lines that could have been caught and reprimanded beforehand. But MCPS failed to even attempt to do so.

I’m not missing the point, I’m not understanding how this looks like in action. Some things sound reasonable on paper, but what specific steps can an employer take to monitor employees. How many layers of checks and balances will it take? People already complain about money waste, and pay to play isn’t an option.

I have athletes both in and out of school. Every organization at this point deals with this similarly- safe sport policies, rules coaches must follow, educating students, and their parents. You’re forgetting that these pedophiles are criminals and are sneaky. Grooming is also hard to monitor as some creeps take months if not years to groom their victims. Even trained adults fail to see it. As a child that was sexually abused. My senses are heightened for this type of behavior. As an adult, I worked with a man that spent time in prison for sexually abusing elementary aged students. When it hit the news, I was floored. Later learned he would offer parents to give their children a ride home from activities. He also invited children for sleepovers. Apparently he’d sit in hot tubs at the camp and molest his victims. I want to vomit every time I see that man’s picture. This went on for years because children, and some parents didn’t report it. One parent finally listened, reported this man and once it hit the news more victims spoke up. I was around this man for years. I missed signs of grooming. Am I at fault for not noticing? He was a sneaky @sshole. Parents loved this man- kids around him appeared happy. I saw no favoritism- he had over a dozen victims, male and female. This man was highly recognized for his work with children. FWIW, this was years ago before cell phones & social media and messaging apps. I get the need for oversight- but what does that look like?

I’m not trying to be contradictory, as I think our goals are ultimately the same, but what can we do to protect our children? This is not unique to MCPS. MCPS is just a larger organization so will statistically have more cases.

This is what action looks like -

1) Parents and students need to read the Employee Code of Conduct. All athletes should have mandatory training that reinforces how they are supposed to be treated. If parents or students know of an employee violating the code of conduct, immediately report. If it’s a criminal offense like child abuse, report information to the police. If it’s not criminal, report in writing to the school principal or anonymously through the previous posted link.

2) MCPS needs to treat all violations of the MCPS Code of Conduct as early warning signs. Using your above example - red flags was a person who gave children rides in a personal vehicle, he would get into hot tubs with students, and he invited students over for sleepovers. With today’s technology, if there’s a written record of these events via private text messages, emails, or social media postings, that information should be considered a serious breach of conduct that is cause for dismissal. There’s always warning signs of misconduct before sexual abuse occurs.

3) Oversight would include either banning overnight travel by MCPS athletic teams or requiring school administrators to accompany the team. Reumante traveled to Portland for Nike Cross Nationals cross country meet in his capacity as a MCPS coach.

4) Oversight would also include athletic directors, assistant principals, school security, and principals doing routine spot checks on practices and games. Are rules for travel being followed? How are students being treated in practices? Is there proper supervision for the locker rooms?

5) Conduct an anonymous survey of athletes for every team during every season. This would be a way to gather athlete input in a manner that they aren’t afraid of retaliation. It would be a tool to learn of concerning behavior.

Just some ideas that differs from the current approach of leaving questionable people in coaching positions till the police makes the arrest. When the arrest happens, a child is already abused versus stopping the opportunity for abuse to occur.

1 is weak. Parents and athletes will ignore the red flags because they don't want retribution and will tell themselves it's all normal until the line is crossed.

[Anonymous]

As long as there are principals who are willing to take "their own" back after grooming accusations, this will keep happening.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is absurd. Athletics in MCPS is a magnet for predators? Schools are paradise for predators? This is a systemic failure and cannot be treated as an isolated incident.

The list of MCPS community messages at the bottom of the following webpage demonstrate that child sexual abuse is a serious problem in MCPS. The community messages are only sent out after an arrest:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/childabuseandneglect/

MCPS website hasn’t been updated with the Reumante letter to the community, but his arrest would equal 8/29 arrests or 27% of arrests are of people affiliated with sport programs in MCPS schools. These are the arrests -

Giovanni Reumante
Kirkland Shipley
Christopher Papadopoulos
Maxwell Bero
Duke Williams
Thomas Ridges
Cory Boatman
Michael Riley (employed 30 years in MCPS including Athletic Director)

Other areas with high percentage of arrests are Special Education (17%) and after school programs (10%).

Sorry, I’m unfamiliar with a few of the names.

I had to look up Michael Riley… his actions date back to 1984, where is he now?

Who is Duke Williams?

Thomas Ridges- his actions that led to charges took place about a decade after he left Mcps. Were there additional charges from the time he was an MCPS employee?

Read the Letters to the Community in the link provided. And there was a typo - should be Dake Williams who is in the Williams letter.

Michael Riley - Google his name for the news records. He retired MCPS to work for a private school as a track coach. He was coaching when the arrest occurred.

A child predator is a predator no matter when the offense or where the offense occurs. For Thomas Ridges, why issue a Letter to the Community if his contact with children in the community during his employment by MCPS wasn’t relevant? Often, these letters go out to see if other victims will come forward.

Right, I’m all for getting these scumbags away from our school and athletic programs but the point is how do we examine what has happened in the past to prevent future cases of abuse. If a coach or school employee has not arrests or reports of sexual deviance against children, how are these creeps screened out during the vetting process? Many victims fail to report, which is understandable, but what options do districts have.

Is the whole, “MCPS knowingly hires child predators and protects them” argument valid?

You're missing the point.

The system rely on vetting them out during the hiring process. That system is obviously a failure. A new system that attempts to weed them at during the application process AND THEN continues to monitor them in the high risk groups (athletics and special needs) is sorely overdue.

The guilty parties are not suddenly in the students bedroom one day. They are grooming them for weeks, months, even years before hand. They are violating policy by having private communications, by being alone in cars, locker rooms, busses, by speaking to them in unprofessional manners publicly, by taking special interest in them and crossing g all sorts of lines that could have been caught and reprimanded beforehand. But MCPS failed to even attempt to do so.

What do you suggest for vetting people without prior records?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is absurd. Athletics in MCPS is a magnet for predators? Schools are paradise for predators? This is a systemic failure and cannot be treated as an isolated incident.

The list of MCPS community messages at the bottom of the following webpage demonstrate that child sexual abuse is a serious problem in MCPS. The community messages are only sent out after an arrest:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/childabuseandneglect/

MCPS website hasn’t been updated with the Reumante letter to the community, but his arrest would equal 8/29 arrests or 27% of arrests are of people affiliated with sport programs in MCPS schools. These are the arrests -

Giovanni Reumante
Kirkland Shipley
Christopher Papadopoulos
Maxwell Bero
Duke Williams
Thomas Ridges
Cory Boatman
Michael Riley (employed 30 years in MCPS including Athletic Director)

Other areas with high percentage of arrests are Special Education (17%) and after school programs (10%).

Sorry, I’m unfamiliar with a few of the names.

I had to look up Michael Riley… his actions date back to 1984, where is he now?

Who is Duke Williams?

Thomas Ridges- his actions that led to charges took place about a decade after he left Mcps. Were there additional charges from the time he was an MCPS employee?

Read the Letters to the Community in the link provided. And there was a typo - should be Dake Williams who is in the Williams letter.

Michael Riley - Google his name for the news records. He retired MCPS to work for a private school as a track coach. He was coaching when the arrest occurred.

A child predator is a predator no matter when the offense or where the offense occurs. For Thomas Ridges, why issue a Letter to the Community if his contact with children in the community during his employment by MCPS wasn’t relevant? Often, these letters go out to see if other victims will come forward.

Right, I’m all for getting these scumbags away from our school and athletic programs but the point is how do we examine what has happened in the past to prevent future cases of abuse. If a coach or school employee has not arrests or reports of sexual deviance against children, how are these creeps screened out during the vetting process? Many victims fail to report, which is understandable, but what options do districts have.

Is the whole, “MCPS knowingly hires child predators and protects them” argument valid?

You're missing the point.

The system rely on vetting them out during the hiring process. That system is obviously a failure. A new system that attempts to weed them at during the application process AND THEN continues to monitor them in the high risk groups (athletics and special needs) is sorely overdue.

The guilty parties are not suddenly in the students bedroom one day. They are grooming them for weeks, months, even years before hand. They are violating policy by having private communications, by being alone in cars, locker rooms, busses, by speaking to them in unprofessional manners publicly, by taking special interest in them and crossing g all sorts of lines that could have been caught and reprimanded beforehand. But MCPS failed to even attempt to do so.

I’m not missing the point, I’m not understanding how this looks like in action. Some things sound reasonable on paper, but what specific steps can an employer take to monitor employees. How many layers of checks and balances will it take? People already complain about money waste, and pay to play isn’t an option.

I have athletes both in and out of school. Every organization at this point deals with this similarly- safe sport policies, rules coaches must follow, educating students, and their parents. You’re forgetting that these pedophiles are criminals and are sneaky. Grooming is also hard to monitor as some creeps take months if not years to groom their victims. Even trained adults fail to see it. As a child that was sexually abused. My senses are heightened for this type of behavior. As an adult, I worked with a man that spent time in prison for sexually abusing elementary aged students. When it hit the news, I was floored. Later learned he would offer parents to give their children a ride home from activities. He also invited children for sleepovers. Apparently he’d sit in hot tubs at the camp and molest his victims. I want to vomit every time I see that man’s picture. This went on for years because children, and some parents didn’t report it. One parent finally listened, reported this man and once it hit the news more victims spoke up. I was around this man for years. I missed signs of grooming. Am I at fault for not noticing? He was a sneaky @sshole. Parents loved this man- kids around him appeared happy. I saw no favoritism- he had over a dozen victims, male and female. This man was highly recognized for his work with children. FWIW, this was years ago before cell phones & social media and messaging apps. I get the need for oversight- but what does that look like?

I’m not trying to be contradictory, as I think our goals are ultimately the same, but what can we do to protect our children? This is not unique to MCPS. MCPS is just a larger organization so will statistically have more cases.

This is what action looks like -

1) Parents and students need to read the Employee Code of Conduct. All athletes should have mandatory training that reinforces how they are supposed to be treated. If parents or students know of an employee violating the code of conduct, immediately report. If it’s a criminal offense like child abuse, report information to the police. If it’s not criminal, report in writing to the school principal or anonymously through the previous posted link.

2) MCPS needs to treat all violations of the MCPS Code of Conduct as early warning signs. Using your above example - red flags was a person who gave children rides in a personal vehicle, he would get into hot tubs with students, and he invited students over for sleepovers. With today’s technology, if there’s a written record of these events via private text messages, emails, or social media postings, that information should be considered a serious breach of conduct that is cause for dismissal. There’s always warning signs of misconduct before sexual abuse occurs.

3) Oversight would include either banning overnight travel by MCPS athletic teams or requiring school administrators to accompany the team. Reumante traveled to Portland for Nike Cross Nationals cross country meet in his capacity as a MCPS coach.

4) Oversight would also include athletic directors, assistant principals, school security, and principals doing routine spot checks on practices and games. Are rules for travel being followed? How are students being treated in practices? Is there proper supervision for the locker rooms?

5) Conduct an anonymous survey of athletes for every team during every season. This would be a way to gather athlete input in a manner that they aren’t afraid of retaliation. It would be a tool to learn of concerning behavior.

Just some ideas that differs from the current approach of leaving questionable people in coaching positions till the police makes the arrest. When the arrest happens, a child is already abused versus stopping the opportunity for abuse to occur.

1 is weak. Parents and athletes will ignore the red flags because they don't want retribution and will tell themselves it's all normal until the line is crossed.

The point is to let parents and students know what is not normal behavior for a coach. If you know a coach could be fired for a specific behavior, would you assume that behavior is acceptable or normal?

Look there are plenty of coaches who have no problems with the Code of Conduct. Staff who 100% follow the Code will never be accused of child abuse in the course of their MCPS responsibilities.

The screaming red flags are when a coach violates the Code of Conduct despite their training as to what the rules are. If parents and students know of a coach violating these rules, they should be concerned and they should report. The basic fundamental premise of the Code of Conduct is to have a mechanism of firing offenders for offenses that may be grooming behaviors but fall short of being a crime.

Example - it’s not a crime for a coach to text or privately email a child. However, these are ways a predator sets up blurring the relationship boundaries and communicate with children. Using a non-MCPS email or private form of communication is a serious violation of the MCPS Code of Conduct but it is not a crime. These types of incidents are serious red flags and coaches should be fired. Too many times though, MCPS attempts to retrain and looks the other way till an arrest is made.

Firing for a Code of Conduct violation is a proactive approach and would dissuade predators from working in MCPS. Waiting till there is an arrest is sitting back and waiting for children to be harmed before addressing a serious problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:This is absurd. Athletics in MCPS is a magnet for predators? Schools are paradise for predators? This is a systemic failure and cannot be treated as an isolated incident.

The list of MCPS community messages at the bottom of the following webpage demonstrate that child sexual abuse is a serious problem in MCPS. The community messages are only sent out after an arrest:

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/childabuseandneglect/

MCPS website hasn’t been updated with the Reumante letter to the community, but his arrest would equal 8/29 arrests or 27% of arrests are of people affiliated with sport programs in MCPS schools. These are the arrests -

Giovanni Reumante
Kirkland Shipley
Christopher Papadopoulos
Maxwell Bero
Duke Williams
Thomas Ridges
Cory Boatman
Michael Riley (employed 30 years in MCPS including Athletic Director)

Other areas with high percentage of arrests are Special Education (17%) and after school programs (10%).

Sorry, I’m unfamiliar with a few of the names.

I had to look up Michael Riley… his actions date back to 1984, where is he now?

Who is Duke Williams?

Thomas Ridges- his actions that led to charges took place about a decade after he left Mcps. Were there additional charges from the time he was an MCPS employee?

Read the Letters to the Community in the link provided. And there was a typo - should be Dake Williams who is in the Williams letter.

Michael Riley - Google his name for the news records. He retired MCPS to work for a private school as a track coach. He was coaching when the arrest occurred.

A child predator is a predator no matter when the offense or where the offense occurs. For Thomas Ridges, why issue a Letter to the Community if his contact with children in the community during his employment by MCPS wasn’t relevant? Often, these letters go out to see if other victims will come forward.

Right, I’m all for getting these scumbags away from our school and athletic programs but the point is how do we examine what has happened in the past to prevent future cases of abuse. If a coach or school employee has not arrests or reports of sexual deviance against children, how are these creeps screened out during the vetting process? Many victims fail to report, which is understandable, but what options do districts have.

Is the whole, “MCPS knowingly hires child predators and protects them” argument valid?

You're missing the point.

The system rely on vetting them out during the hiring process. That system is obviously a failure. A new system that attempts to weed them at during the application process AND THEN continues to monitor them in the high risk groups (athletics and special needs) is sorely overdue.

The guilty parties are not suddenly in the students bedroom one day. They are grooming them for weeks, months, even years before hand. They are violating policy by having private communications, by being alone in cars, locker rooms, busses, by speaking to them in unprofessional manners publicly, by taking special interest in them and crossing g all sorts of lines that could have been caught and reprimanded beforehand. But MCPS failed to even attempt to do so.

What do you suggest for vetting people without prior records?

Please read. The solution is to enforce the Employee Code of Conduct and fire offenders.

[Anonymous]

MCPS currently has coaches on staff with a history of violating the code of conduct. There needs to be an outside review of these cases to improve child safety in the MCPS athletics program. Until there’s enforcement, coaches will keep pushing boundaries and harm students.

[Anonymous]

When I saw he was arrested at the airport, I assumed he was trying to flee abroad. But no, he was arrested by CBP reentering the country from the Dominican Republic. Either he is dumb as a bag of hammers for coming back, or MCPD managed to conduct a 2-month investigation without alerting him to it at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I saw he was arrested at the airport, I assumed he was trying to flee abroad. But no, he was arrested by CBP reentering the country from the Dominican Republic. Either he is dumb as a bag of hammers for coming back, or MCPD managed to conduct a 2-month investigation without alerting him to it at all.

He probably didn’t know an arrest warrant was issued on December 23rd or even that he was under investigation. Was he on administrative leave?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hopefully they go virtual soon to protect kids from these pedos.

What? How does this make sense?

[Anonymous]

Just to clear things up. A background investigation won't identify someone who hasn't committed a crime. These people do the crime on the job. He was hired as a young man, developed a sense of entitement and power on the job, and voila. It happens, unfortunately. Immature and arrogant people do these type of things. The system is not "hiring pedos."
This isn't hard to figure out.

[Anonymous]

It’s not hard to figure out that the system has huge safety risks in its athletics program when 27% of arrests are of coaches. Only morons would try to defend MCPS’s track record for employees who are arrested for crimes against children. Doing something to increase supervision and to enforce the code of conduct would be better than just waiting for the police to make an arrest.

Reumante has been working in MCPS since 2013. That’s 9 years. The police are concerned that there could be more victims.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When I saw he was arrested at the airport, I assumed he was trying to flee abroad. But no, he was arrested by CBP reentering the country from the Dominican Republic. Either he is dumb as a bag of hammers for coming back, or MCPD managed to conduct a 2-month investigation without alerting him to it at all.

Why wouldn’t he come back? The supposed offense happened nine years ago. He probably had forgotten the girls name.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just to clear things up. A background investigation won't identify someone who hasn't committed a crime. These people do the crime on the job. He was hired as a young man, developed a sense of entitement and power on the job, and voila. It happens, unfortunately. Immature and arrogant people do these type of things. The system is not "hiring pedos."
This isn't hard to figure out.

For the hundredth time MCPS does NOT do a background check on anyone. If there is a former employer in the education field a phone call is made plus the routine NCIC check which might show previous arrests. No more. No less. A proper background check can take up to a year. No way that MCPS can do that with 2000 new hires per year.