WATCH: Virginia Students Erupt in Protest After ‘Gender Fluid’ Boy Found Guilty of Assaulting Girl in Bathroom

A sentencing decision is expected in November.

“We are relieved that justice was served today for the Smith’s daughter,” attorney Bill Stanley of the Stanley Law Group, who is representing the victim, said in a statement Monday. “This horrible incident has deeply affected the Smith family, and they are grateful for today’s outcome.”

“No one should have to endure what this family has endured,” he added. The Smith family is planning to file a civil lawsuit against the Loudoun County school system, according to the Stanley Law Group.

On October 7, days before a hearing in which the 15-year-old was expected to plead guilty to the assault, the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office announced that he had also been “charged with sexual battery and abduction” at Broad Run High School. “The investigation determined on the afternoon of October 6, the 15-year-old suspect forced the victim into an empty classroom where he held her against her will and inappropriately touched her,” the sheriff’s office said.

Between the two attacks, the Loudoun County School Board enacted a policy allowing students to access sex-specific private spaces, including bathrooms, and to play on sports teams based on their “gender identity.”

School board under fire

Loudoun County school officials initially denied knowledge of any sexual assaults in the county’s schools. Last week, however, WTOP News revealed that Loudoun County school system superintendent Scott Ziegler sent an email to school board members alerting them of the attack at Stone Bridge High School the day that it happened.

“This afternoon a female student alleged that a male student sexually assaulted her in the restroom,” Ziegler wrote in the email, dated May 28.

At a school board meeting on June 22, Ziegler nevertheless claimed that there was no record of assaults in school bathrooms. “To my knowledge, we don’t have any record of assaults occurring in our restrooms,” he said, declaring that, “the predator transgender student or person simply does not exist.”

Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS) acknowledged in a statement on October 13 that it had, in fact, contacted the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office about the bathroom rape “within minutes of receiving the initial report on May 28.”

The statement added that “LCPS does not begin its investigation until law enforcement advises LCPS that it has completed the criminal investigation” and said that school system “is prohibited from disciplining any student without following the Title IX grievance process.”

At least one school board member, Beth Barts, has already resigned amid the scandal. “Our students do not need to be protected, and they are not in danger,” Barts said at the June 22 school board meeting. “Do we have assaults in our bathrooms or locker rooms regularly?”

Also in attendance at that meeting was the victim’s father, Scott Smith, who was arrested for “unlawful attendance” after an argument with a pro-LGBT activist who said that she did not believe his daughter, the Daily Wire reported. Smith was dragged out of the meeting and later convicted of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.

Last month, the National School Board Association (NSBA) cited Scott in a letter to the Biden administration calling for federal investigations of parents pushing back on left-wing school policies, including transgender bathroom rules and the teaching of critical race theory.

The NSBA letter pointed to Smith’s behavior as an example of potential “domestic terrorism,” and specifically asked for the “expertise and resources” of the FBI, Justice Department, Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security, and National Threat Assessment Center.

Attorney General Merrick Garland issued a memo the following week directing the FBI to investigate parents allegedly harassing school administrators and school board members.

In a congressional hearing last Thursday, Garland admitted that he does not know “any of the facts” of the Stone Bridge High School rape case, which he referred to as a “state case.”

Now that a judge ruled it was rape… & the rapist admitted he wore a skirt into the girls’ bathroom… & the #NASB apologized for its political memo… will AG #Garland admit his mistake in targeting parents & will @TerryMcAuliffe own this #LoudounScandal for #VirginiaDemocrats. https://t.co/IWgRO7HNSm

— Chip Roy (@chiproytx) October 25, 2021