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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bumped into my neighbor today whose daughter is on the crew team. She said the crew team knew about this 3 years ago and reported it to MCPS and CPS, and they investigated and said they could find no credible evidence of wrongdoing.

Maybe he got sloppy after that with things like text messages (you can see copies in the indictment) and that's how he finally got caught.[/quote]

Some misstatements in here. The “crew team” didn’t know anything.

Per the Bethesda Beat article, a rumor was reported to the crew board in 2018.  They reported it to mcps and cps (and I think the article also said they reported it to some outside oversight organization?) and no evidence was found supporting the rumor. So the board relied on that when renewing his contract, which yes with hindsight was a bad decision, but do we want people to be able to be fired for rumors alone?

Also remember that the members of the 2018 board are likely not the present members of the board who might have not even known about the 2018 rumor.

This shows how easy it can be for predators to get away with this stuff. I agree with you that he got sloppy by the texts. Most importantly the brave victims came forward.

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