Gov. Glenn Youngkin Pardons Father Who Protested School Board After His Daughter’s Sexual Assault
“We righted a wrong. He should’ve never been prosecuted here. This was a dad standing up for his daughter.”
The horrors that pervaded Loudoun County public schools arguably led directly to the 2021 election of Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin (R).
Among the many shocking scandals emanating from this woke school district was the cover-up of the sexual assault of at least two female students and the shuffling of the skirt-wearing male offender to another school.
This, along with other incidents of highly offensive wokeness in Loudoun County schools, set off the parents movement that swept the nation and flipped many school board seats to sensible parents who want to protect their districts’ children and ensure quality education, not woke indoctrination and dangerous pro-criminal policies that threaten every child. It is also ground zero of the Biden administration’s weaponization of the Merrick Garland-run corrupt DOJ against normal American parents, whom he declared “domestic terrorists” for attending and daring to speak at public school board meetings.
With all the noise coming out of that privileged little splotch of blue, we can lose sight of the fact that the father of one of the two girls who was sexually assaulted in school was convicted of disorderly conduct for protesting the sexual assault of his daughter at a school board meeting.
It was an outrageous arrest, an outrageous conviction, and it’s now been put right by Governor Youngkin.
I’m pleased to grant Scott Smith a pardon. He is a dedicated Loudoun County father who was wrongfully prosecuted and convicted for standing up for his daughter at a 2021 Loudoun County School Board meeting after she was sexually assaulted at school. https://t.co/6dWf88U2b1 pic.twitter.com/WCEvciUfzT
— Governor Glenn Youngkin (@GovernorVA) September 10, 2023
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Sunday he pardoned a dad who angrily protested a Loudoun County school’s handling of his daughter’s sexual assault.
Scott Smith, a plumber who erupted at a rowdy school board meeting on June 22, 2021 — reportedly unleashing a storm of profanities — was arrested and subsequently convicted of disorderly conduct.
“I spoke with Mr. Smith on Friday, and I had the privilege of telling Mr. Smith that I will pardon him, and we did that on Friday,” Youngkin told “Fox News Sunday.”
“We righted a wrong. He should’ve never been prosecuted here. This was a dad standing up for his daughter.”
. . . . “His daughter had been sexually assaulted in the bathroom of a school, and no one was doing anything about it,” Youngkin said, arguing the superintendent “covered it up.”
The debacle sparked national outrage, especially among conservatives. A second attack with the same suspect was reported later in 2021.
“Mr. Smith did what any father would do, what any parent would do, which is stand up for their child,” Youngkin continued. “This was gross miscarriage of justice.”
Smith responded to his pardon on Twitter (X).
Thank you Governor Youngkin for giving me an off ramp from a Politicized and Weaponized Justice System. This should scare ever American 🇺🇸 to there core and should never happen to any family. The “Good Fight”continues on. 🙏💪🏼🫡 pic.twitter.com/G8C5ZOQji4
— Scott T Smith (@scottsm25937858) September 10, 2023
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About time…
Youngkin getting ready to run?
Time’s running short, but he hasn’t said he won’t.
No. There is a big election in Virginia, early voting starts in a few weeks. The entire legislature is up, and so is this prosecutor.
What took so long? If it had been one of my daughters, that sick little pervert would have been praying to cops got a hold of him first.
Is there going to be any prosecutions of those SOBs? Civil liability?
That’s my question. Not to criticize the governor, and I’m aware there’s a lot on a governor’s plate, but I would have thought that righting this specific miscarriage of justice would have at least made the top 30 on his list of things to do right after being sworn in.
I’m also wondering why it took so long. Did he have to wait for all appeals to be exhausted and final sentencing?
It is part of his campaign in the legislative elections.
Well done Governor.
Now we need to elect a GOP President who can do the same nationwide against the administrative/law fare state.
Free all the political prisoners. Most should get pardoned. A few who actually committed actual violence or property damage on J6 should have their sentences reduced to be commensurate with similar offenses committed by left wing protesters.
If the GOP has even slight majorities in both houses use reconciliation to strip funding to as much as possible of the DOJ, FBI and DC Federal courts.
Use executive power to layoff massive numbers of Federal bureaucrats eliminating them for all intents and purposes.
Set up special prosecutors to investigate, try and convict the bureaucrats and law enforcement officials who have terrorized conservative Americans in recent years. The prime targets would include the DOJ leadership Lisa Monaco who is Obama’s plant actually running the DOJ, Andrew Weissman the pit bull behind the fraudulent prosecutions of Arthur Anderson, Ted Stevens and the Russia collusion special counsel. In addition the targets should include Jack Smith for his notorious political prosecutions and all of DOJ and FBI crooks involved in the Russia collusion attempt to use fraud to remove a sitting president and all the DOJ attorneys who did and are railroading the J6 protesters, pro life protesters and parents objecting to transgender and DEI agendas in schools.
The prosecutions and trials should take place in middle America far away from the corrupt DC cess pool.
I like what you say, extract 10x retribution.
A reckoning is called for
Sounds great, but most of those people have absolute immunity. Still, hold an impeachment inquiry (for those appointed with the senate’s consent_ and a special counsel investigation (for all), to shake the tree and see what might fall off.
The Deep Sewer needs draining.
That entire school board needs inviting to a necktie party.
That is too quick, old fashioned tar and feathering.
It’s not just the school board, but they are in league with Commonwealth Attorney Buta Biberaj, another legal vandal handpicked by Soros.
I doubt Soros handpicks any of these people. He’s got people for that. He just provides the money and some general guidance, and they know what he wants done.
Glad to see this. Now, fire the cops that arrested him and put the prosecutor in a dark hole.
I might give the cops a pass. I don’t have any reason to believe they knew who he was, or what his backstory was. The press sure didn’t — or took pains to hide it well — until the parents org sent out their press releases.
I think the father showed tremendous restraint by simply protesting at a school board meeting. Those board members deserved far worse.
Youngkin will earn my praise after he invites the Proud Boys in to give the board a rough-Justice lesson, and then pardons them.
Update: Buta Biberaj whines on X… and gets dragged.