MCPS bus driver arrest

[Anonymous]

I appreciate MCPS acting swiftly, contacting the police and cooperating with the police to prosecute this guy to the fullest extent of the law. I am also happy to hear that they are putting cameras on school buses.

If you think that there is any action MCPS can take will reduce the incidences of child sexual abuse to zero, you are naive. Depraved individuals will go to great lengths.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This can’t keep happening. I recommend background checks done every year

He’s never been arrested before in Maryland. Most sex abusers don’t have records. There are cameras all over that bus. What they should do is implement a policy of regular review of the tapes.

Again, how many of you are willing to pay for this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The need to actually do a real background check on all MCPS employees, including a finger print.

Why? Because most of the people who are committing these crimes have done it before but have not been caught. For whatever the reason they are able to get away with it, the kids don't talk, they are scared to talk etc. But if their finger prints are required to be on record, chances are they will never apply in fears that at sometime in the past they left a finger print in the past. The county is too cheap to actually do this so this is what we are left with.

MCPS employee here. Fingerprinting is already a part of the background check. In most of these cases it seems like these people are getting caught for the first time, so even yearly checks might not help. Frankly, I'd like to see some kind of system in place for monitoring suspicious employees. I've known teachers who I get a bad feeling about and there is nothing to do but watch and be ready to report.

Thanks for writing in. I didn't want to say this because I am not an employee, but given that parents who chaperone a field trip that extends outside the school day (like returning at 8pm or overnights) have to be fingerprinted, I am pretty sure all employees who have any contact with kids are also fingerprinted.

I have never worked in a school district where employees weren’t fingerprinted. There isn’t a central database so I’ve had many sets of prints and background checks

[Anonymous]

Im willing to pay for it AND textbooks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This can’t keep happening. I recommend background checks done every year

He’s never been arrested before in Maryland. Most sex abusers don’t have records. There are cameras all over that bus. What they should do is implement a policy of regular review of the tapes.

Again, how many of you are willing to pay for this?

It’s not that much. Regular review doesn’t have to be every bus every day.

Plus it’s the “warning” the drivers and assistants that they are constantly being reviewed that is the deterrent. Make it a regular reminder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This can’t keep happening. I recommend background checks done every year

He’s never been arrested before in Maryland. Most sex abusers don’t have records. There are cameras all over that bus. What they should do is implement a policy of regular review of the tapes.

Again, how many of you are willing to pay for this?

It’s not that much. Regular review doesn’t have to be every bus every day.

Plus it’s the “warning” the drivers and assistants that they are constantly being reviewed that is the deterrent. Make it a regular reminder.

What? Just being filmed during a criminal act isn't enough of a deterrent? You can't fix stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ive said it before and I'll say it again:
Keep. Men. Away. From. School age. Children.

I await your blahblahblah replies.

That. Is. Not. A. Workable. Solution.

Sorry.

Think of something else. I await your ideas for something that can actually be implemented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Im willing to pay for it AND textbooks.

Run for School Board on this platform.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Im willing to pay for it AND textbooks.

+1

This guy was 62. I find it hard to believe this is the first incidence of this. Hope the victim finds some peace.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This can’t keep happening. I recommend background checks done every year

He’s never been arrested before in Maryland. Most sex abusers don’t have records. There are cameras all over that bus. What they should do is implement a policy of regular review of the tapes.

Again, how many of you are willing to pay for this?

It’s not that much. Regular review doesn’t have to be every bus every day.

Plus it’s the “warning” the drivers and assistants that they are constantly being reviewed that is the deterrent. Make it a regular reminder.

Which buses do you think will get reviewed more regularly than others just by coincidence?

What about the kid who gets assaulted, but their footage isn’t reviewed because it’s not their bus’s turn?

[Anonymous]

According to WaPo:
“In court Monday, Montgomery County Assistant State’s Attorney Elizabeth Haynos said that Kabongo was a flight risk and that he therefore should not be given bond, according to a state’s attorney spokesman. Kabongo had airline tickets and was scheduled to fly from Newark to Ethi­o­pia on Tuesday, Haynos told the judge.”

I wonder if he realized about the cameras and decided to flee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Im willing to pay for it AND textbooks.

+1

This guy was 62. I find it hard to believe this is the first incidence of this. Hope the victim finds some peace.

+100 I hope MCPS is helping to provide support to the victim and family. Given the number of arrests just this calendar year, what type of psychological services and supports are provided to victims at school? MCPS should have staff trained in trauma services with the numbers of victims in their schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The need to actually do a real background check on all MCPS employees, including a finger print.

Why? Because most of the people who are committing these crimes have done it before but have not been caught. For whatever the reason they are able to get away with it, the kids don't talk, they are scared to talk etc. But if their finger prints are required to be on record, chances are they will never apply in fears that at sometime in the past they left a finger print in the past. The county is too cheap to actually do this so this is what we are left with.

MCPS employee here. Fingerprinting is already a part of the background check. In most of these cases it seems like these people are getting caught for the first time, so even yearly checks might not help. Frankly, I'd like to see some kind of system in place for monitoring suspicious employees. I've known teachers who I get a bad feeling about and there is nothing to do but watch and be ready to report.

MCPS knows of many questionable employees that have violated the MCPS Code of Conduct including individuals who have demonstrated grooming behaviors of child predators but they keep questionable employees in place till the police have physical evidence to make an arrest. The Code of Conduct was written so MCPS would be justified in firing these types of individuals before a child is harmed. It provides MCPS the key to being proactive in protecting children but thus far MCPS keeps protecting child predators until they are arrested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This can’t keep happening. I recommend background checks done every year

He’s never been arrested before in Maryland. Most sex abusers don’t have records. There are cameras all over that bus. What they should do is implement a policy of regular review of the tapes.

Again, how many of you are willing to pay for this?

It’s not that much. Regular review doesn’t have to be every bus every day.

Plus it’s the “warning” the drivers and assistants that they are constantly being reviewed that is the deterrent. Make it a regular reminder.

What? Just being filmed during a criminal act isn't enough of a deterrent? You can't fix stupid.

Yes, it does. Will it make everyone 100% safe? No, but it will cut down on abuse.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This can’t keep happening. I recommend background checks done every year

He’s never been arrested before in Maryland. Most sex abusers don’t have records. There are cameras all over that bus. What they should do is implement a policy of regular review of the tapes.

Again, how many of you are willing to pay for this?

It’s not that much. Regular review doesn’t have to be every bus every day.

Plus it’s the “warning” the drivers and assistants that they are constantly being reviewed that is the deterrent. Make it a regular reminder.

Which buses do you think will get reviewed more regularly than others just by coincidence?

What about the kid who gets assaulted, but their footage isn’t reviewed because it’s not their bus’s turn?

What? Don't be so cynical.