Teenager in the Loudoun county case found guilty on all counts.

Scott Smith getting arrested after the school board claimed his daughter had not been raped. Washington Examiner. 

The teenager in the Loudoun County case that exploded nationally has been found guilty of all counts. Washington Examiner. The case gained national notoriety after the victims father, Scott Smith, was arrested while protesting against the county school board who had said no one had been raped at the school while discussing transgender bathroom policy. The boy who was convicted was reportedly non-binary and was wearing a skirt when he assaulted the Smith daughter. The sentencing has been delayed until the outcome of another case where the suspect attacked yet another girl at a different school. The Smith family is suing the school board due to covering up the case and not protecting the two victims in the case. 

My Comment:

An important update to this case which I first covered here. The case went viral after I posted about it and became a major front in the culture war. 

And it's no wonder why, the case directly damages one of the far left's arguments against bathroom laws. Opponents of these laws have long said that allowing these transgender bathroom laws would lead to these kinds of assaults where transgendered, or people faking being transgender, would assault children. That was always dismissed as bigotry by the far left and something that would never happen. But this case pretty much happened exactly like they said it would. 

The anger over this case was real. I know Obama dismissed it as a faux controversy but nothing could be further from the truth. People were disgusted by the actions of the Loudoun county school board and continue to be so. Not only did their policy allow this to happen they also covered it up and didn't get the attacker out of the school. He went on to attack another girl in a totally preventable incident. 

I do think that the Smith family, and the family of the other girl that was assaulted, should win the lawsuit against the school board. They lied about what had happened, covered up the case and put into place a policy that was pretty obviously going to lead to an incident like this. They deserve to be punished for their actions. 

This conviction also hurts the people that were trying to downplay or ignore the story. Until now there was still the potential that the attacker was innocent, if for no other reason than no trial had happened yet. With the attacker being convicted they can't argue that the incident was overblown or made up. There is court proof that this attacker raped a young girl. 

I do think that this story is an important one and shouldn't be treated as a local story. The protests against the Loudoun County school board were used as an excuse to treat school board protesters as potential terrorists. That's how far gone this country is. Your daughter can be raped, the school board can deny it, activists can call you a liar and you can get arrested. Then your name can be used as an excuse to spy and arrest anyone else that is upset at what these school board are doing.