The New American
A Virginia school district has opened an independent investigation into charges that officials at one of its high schools secretly procured all-expenses-paid abortions for minor students.
Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) claims it opened its investigation last week as soon as it learned of the allegations, yet there is indisputable evidence that the district was aware of the charges months ago.
Minor Offense
According to investigative journalist Walter Curt, who broke the story last Tuesday, two Centreville High School students allege that, in 2021, social worker Carolina Diaz, with the full knowledge of then-Principal Chad Lehman, arranged for them to get free abortions. (Lehman has since been promoted to executive principal of FCPS Region 5.) Curt wrote:
A handwritten statement from the first student, translated for clarity, lays out how Díaz scheduled the appointment, paid the clinic’s fees, and swore her to secrecy. The girl, an 11th-grade ESOL [English for Speakers of Other Languages] student, says the abortion took place in November 2021 — while she was still seventeen — making the concealment a straight-line violation of state law.
That letter alone would be enough to raise the hair on the back of a patriotic taxpayer’s neck, but there is more. A second Centreville minor, five months pregnant and wavering, was allegedly told by the same social worker that she “had no other choice.” The girl, terrified, ultimately bolted from the clinic rather than go through with the procedure. She later confided in her teacher, Mrs. Zenaida Perez, who allowed her name to be used on the record and provided [Curt] a recording of the family confirming that no one at the school had ever informed them of the intent to terminate their daughter’s pregnancy. [Emphasis in original.]
FCPS policy does not mandate that school staff inform parents of students’ pregnancies. It also forbids staffers from “influencing [a] student regarding [her] pregnancy.”
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