In a Thursday hearing, Loudoun County Judge Pamela Brooks granted the teenager's defense team's demand to drop the lifetime sex offender registration from his punishment that brought intense condemnation from one of the victims' parents.
The teenager had been sentenced to a "locked residential program" at a residential psychiatric facility earlier this month and a lifetime on the sex offender registry. But Thursday's decision removed the second demand.
In a statement published on Twitter by WJLA reporter Scott Smith, the father of one of the victims said he and his wife "are not just heartbroken about today's ruling, we are quite frankly mad at how the justice system and Loudoun Commonwealth's attorney has let down both our daughter, as well as the other victims of his predatory behavior."
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The assault of Smith's daughter occurred in the women's bathroom at Stone Bridge High School in Loudoun County. The offender was sporting a skirt when the assault occurred and was allowed to transfer to a different high school, where he committed a second assault.
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The handling of the two attacks led to claims that the school board covered up the assaults while working to pass a transgender bathroom policy. New Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares announced that his office would probe the district hours after he was inaugurated.
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WJLA reported that an independent review of the school district's handling of the assaults was recently completed. Yet, district officials have refused to release the results, citing attorney-client privilege.
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Smith brought the sexual assault of his daughter to national headlines when he was arrested at a Loudoun County School Board meeting for engaging in a quarrel with law enforcement. He says a woman came to him to tell him she didn't believe his daughter had been raped, precipitating the struggle.
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Smith spoke against the board's intended execution of the transgender bathroom policy when he was arrested. He was later found guilty of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
WJLA reported Wednesday that the judge in the case, referring to the teenager's psychological reports, said, "You scare me. What I read in those reports scared me and should scare families and scare society."
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A "locked residential program" is a type of program offered by a residential psychiatric facility in which patients are under constant supervision.
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