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[quote=Anonymous]No you Beauvoir supporter that is NOT what happened.  That is what the admin at Beauvoir wants you to believe.  Or you may be the admin.

The cathedral police escorted him off the grounds on Monday (day before graduation).  Unclear when he fled town but police were NOT called immediately and by the way Cathedral police are not the same thing.

Toth went to a house of a Beauvoir family where he often stayed and was able to pack his things.  He was able to drive in his own car.  No one was looking for him at this point.  There was no APB and he was free to move around DC.  He was able to contact a mother of a kid in the current class (at least one parent as he likely contacted others) and she met with him for 5-6 hours in a local coffee shop, until midnight or even later.  He had been able to go to the bank and also run other errands.  The mother who met him supposedly knew he was driving home to Indiana.  Tuesday was graduation and kids and families were in the classroom (technically a crime scene!!) and messing it up etc.  The school also cleaned the room. The admin had made up a story that he had a medical emergency in his family and that's why he was missing graduation -- very important to his current students as they were leaving Beauvoir and it is a big deal for the 3rd grade.  The mother never told anyone anything differently.

On Wednesday other families received emails and phone calls.  Still no story and no police questioning.

The mother who had spent time with him Monday believed he did nothing wrong at this point.  On Wednesday several mothers believed, based on emails and phone calls, that he was suicidal, and tracked him down (he had that mothers cell phone as she had given it to him Monday night) to urge him not to kill himself.  No one knew anything at this point, there were no police involved.

On Thursday night, the house of cards came down and by Friday (my timing may not be exactly right) a statement was issued by Beauvoir.  One mother even tracked down his mother (who admitted he was a pedophile by the way and she was a shrink, another bizarre fact).  That may have happened Friday or even on the weekend though I'm not sure.  The press only picked it up then, but the Post was pretty slow to cover (they had a conflict of interest given they had someone who was on the Beauvoir board)

On Friday, the head of school contacted some of the families more directly connected.  The head was reassuring and promised help.  Nothing -- except that the school would pick up the tab for an initial visit to a shrink -- was ever really offered or ever materialized.  FBI and police investigation of these directly affected families occurred later.  There was a meeting of the class with the head the following week where they explained what they knew, and at that point some parents were still in denial.

I don't consider the school coming forward FIVE days later immediately.  Not when it gave Toth more contact with students, their duty is to protect their students and by waiting until they could lawyer it up and have their pR firm and lawyers craft a statement for them was absolutely what happened.

Later that summer, many kids and parents were called to testify in front of a grand jury.  Most kids went through a "safe harbor" organization which provides help for this and were questioned by an FBI expert who had experience questioning children.  Parents were not present (nor could a lawyer be there).  Toth was indicted based on the evidence presented in the grand jury, and he remains at large despite several sightings including living in a homeless shelter for a year in Arizona helping them to write grants.

Now that is not exactly true that no one made allegations.  There was at least one parent who approached the school (about the summer camping trip) and they were told not to worry the school was addressing it.  Also why was Toth told not to have his door closed.  Not to have kids in his lap.  There were suspicions IMHO.  Yes this is a tricky area as you cannot accuse someone and ruin their life, but the school had a duty to protect the kids.  They failed in that duty.  Toth was at peoples houses, babysitting, tutoring all the time.  The school had no policy about that and it gave him plenty of opportunity to be one on one with kids.  Would you let a known alcoholic tend bar?

They had video of him coming and going from the school at odd hours.  They should have known he was living at the school, that he compromised their records, that he even took phone records from the heads office.

Oh and Potomac School had hired him for the following year too.

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