RICHMOND, Va. ( DC News Now ) — After high-profile sexual assaults cases took place in school bathrooms, a bill introduced in the Virginia House of Delegates would require school resource officers to check restrooms every 30 minutes.
“We can’t prevent everything, but these kinds of tragedies should not be happening in our public schools,” said Del. A.C. Cordova.
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In 2021, a 6-year-old allegedly was assaulted sexually in a school bathroom during an after school program at John Tyler Elementary School in Hampton, in Cordova’s district.
“There was no monitoring. There was no one monitoring,” he said.
Earlier that year, a girl was assaulted by a schoolmate in a Loudoun County high school. That incident, and a subsequent assault at a separate high school by the same assailant, sparked a special grand jury investigation of the school divisions, and ultimately led to the firing of former superintendent Scott Ziegler .