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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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. [/quote]

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/
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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%).
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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?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

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?
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MCPS has a culture of ignoring and covering up problems instead of believing victims when they come forward.

MCPS repeatedly does their own internal investigations before CPS and the police when they learn of serious allegations. The Damascus group chat is an example of the knee jerk reaction to overstep and interview witnesses of abuse before reporting crimes to the police.

MCPS knows of many cases where the Employee Code of Conduct was violated but they keep the person in contact with students till the police make an arrest. There should be a reexamination of employees who have violations but are still working in MCPS. Until the Code of Conduct is enforced, predators will have free access to victims in MCPS.

The link above also has Superintendent yearly reports of the number of child abuse complaints that are reported for MCPS employees.  There’s less than 10 investigators in CPS to investigate these complaints. 90% of complaints are screened out meaning they are not investigated.  MCPS falsely points to the lack of arrest as justification of keeping an employee who is violating the Code of Conduct in their job. That defeats the safety mechanism that the Code of Conduct was written for - a way to fire a predator for grooming behavior BEFORE a crime is committed or provable.

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