The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - AlbCo Schools Rocked By Child Sex Crimes; Parents Start Petition Following Sex Offender Arrest

Episode Date: June 9, 2026

The I Love CVille Show headlines: AlbCo Schools Rocked By Child Sex Crimes… Again School Parents Start Petition Following Sex Offender Arrest 2025-26 Challenging Year For Superintendent Haas CVille Assistant City Manager Out After Less Than 5 Mos City’s 1330 Hilltop Rd Sells For $2,240,000 On 6/1 805 Preston Ave Sells For $1.6M (Carpet Plus Building) Guadalajara JPA Building Sells For $1.11M On 6/4 $34.4M UVA Gift To Support Early Childhood Learning Ctr Read Viewer & Listener Comments Live On-Air The I Love CVille Show airs live Monday – Friday from 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm on The I Love CVille Network. Watch and listen to The I Love CVille Show on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, iTunes, Apple Podcast, YouTube, Spotify, Fountain, Amazon Music, Audible, Rumble and iLoveCVille.com.

Good Tuesday afternoon. I'm Jerry Miller and welcome to the I Love Seville Show. This is the water cooler of content and conversation for anything and everything in Charlottesville and Elmore County and across Central Virginia, the Commonwealth, the country and the world where we encourage you, the viewer and listener, to help shape the show and our talking points. We want to be the water cooler. We don't want to originate the news. We want to offer commentary and analysis on the news. And we want to do it in conjunction with you, the viewer and listener, because we know. know as a collective and as a community, we are stronger. Today's show is going to be uncomfortable, and today's show is going to be necessary. The worst kind of behavior, deviant criminal behavior, is prolific and prevalent within Almeral County Public Schools. And now parents are demanding accountability and transparency. And that's what happens when two teachers, two educators, have been arrested on sex crimes, child sex crimes, the worst kind. And I'm a parent of two boys.

We have an eight-year-old and we have a three-year-old. Our eight-year-old, I'm straightforward on this show, goes to a local private school. We're within the Almore County Public School footprint. but we chose, we choose for our eight-year-old to go to a local private school. Most likely, very likely, we'll do the same with our three-year-old. I still have questions as a parent of two young children. I have questions in particular on timeline. I have questions in particular on communication and transparency,

and I have questions on background checks. How is a man, with an alleged history, alleged history, Michael Sweeney, Sweeney. I think it's Swiny. Swiny, thank you.

An alleged history of sex crimes on children allowed to hop around to multiple schools within NAMR County Public Schools. When did the school system know? What did they do when they initially heard of these alleged allegations?

And how is a 37-year-old who previously worked at Woodbrook Elementary School allow to then work at Hullimede Elementary School. And why is all this coming out what appears to be at the same time?

This is the swinny story is a nasty, nasty, nasty one. It's compounded by a second our rest at a same elementary school, which we need to talk about today. And I want this petition to go viral. I want as many community members as possible to sign it.

And this petition needs to be front and center in front of Dr. Matthew Haas in front of in the next school board meeting. Because the email that was sent to parents, a recent email that tried to who, when, where, why, the most recent arrest was not enough. It was not enough from a context standpoint, a timeline standpoint, a transparency standpoint. It didn't answer enough questions. And if anything, it infuriated moms and dads even more. Let's unpack the story on

on today's show. Also on the program, we'll talk some real estate transactions. The Guadalajara on Fontaine Avenue has sold. The building on Preston Avenue that's home to Carpets Plus and its neighbor Blue Ridge Shipping has sold.

And how about a residential listing on Hilltop Road that closes at $2,240,000. All these transactions in a few days period of time, subscribers of our I Love Seville Substack, the first to know about

the $8 a month on our I Love Seville Substack, get you every transaction in the city and soon Almore County, ladies and gentlemen. We're also going to talk a city manager at City Hall, an assistant city manager who has pieced out after less than five months on the job, and a $34 million gift to support early childhood learning to the University of Virginia through the University of Virginia on today's program. A lot we're going to cover today. I want to thank one of the partners that is associated with our program, John Vermillion and Andrew Vermillion at Charlottesville Sanitary Supply. They have been in business with their companies, Charlottesville Sanitary Supply and Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company for 62 years. The Charlottesville Swimming Pool Division is the heartbeat of our swimming pool at our residents.

water testing, a swimming pool cover, swimming pool shade, pool robot for cleaning the pool. You name it. Charlottesville swimming pool company is who you contact. Ladies and gentlemen, John and Andrew Vermilion have been in business for 62 years, and they have a fantastic location on East High Street. Ladies and gentlemen, Charlottesville Swimming Pool Company and Charleston Sanitary Supply. Connections, good, Judah? We're having some little issues popping up, but they seem to mostly be going away very quickly. Okay, good. I'm glad to hear that.

Judah Wickhauer, the Elmer's Blue of the team, not only behind the scenes, but in front of the camera as well. I think on that note, we welcome you on camera, Judah. I think, you know, when you start talking about sex crimes on children, it's an uncomfortable conversation. I won't start the show by talking what headline most intrigued you and why. Maybe we go to the start of the program in our lead headlines. Look, think about the 2025-2020-6 school year for Matthew Haas and Amar County Public Schools. Whether it's equity grading, whether it's Turning Point USA, Western Almoreal High School chapter, being stigmatized and villainized.

whether it's Allison Spillman and the Ku Klux Klan comments for the Turning Point USA, whether it's a push for a quarter of a billion dollar school in the northern feeder pattern of Almar County Public Schools, whether it's diminishing enrollment at Almar County Public Schools, according to Weldon Cooper, whether it's one of the most expensive spends per pupil in the entire Commonwealth of Virginia at Almore County Public Schools, whether it's SOLs, SOL scores, standards of learning scores that are slipping. The data backs this up, especially for black and brown students. Whether it's school resource officers, police and schools, whether it's collective bargaining

and the unionization of Almaro County Public School employees. And now it's two educators arrested for sex crimes on kids. It's no secret. It's been an extremely challenging year. for the embattled superintendent Dr. Matthew Haas. As challenging a year you can find for a superintendent in a, as much as I can remember. What's happened over the last few weeks is the most unfortunate

of all the challenges the school system has faced. When educators are arrested for the students, sex crimes on kids, the entire school system, the entire community, the entire region starts following the storyline. And now you have parents asking the right questions. What did you know about this? Why don't you communicate with us sooner? How was the man arrested the second arrest?

How is he allowed to hop to a second school? four years of alleged history of this kind of behavior. Why was this contract not terminated prior? The petition should go viral and should get every community member to sign it. I'll start with an opening question for you, Judah Wickhauer, on where you want to begin on this topic? I mean, this is a tough topic. It's the kind of thing where in other cases where children aren't involved, where it's, you know, sexual crimes. whether it's rape, whether it's whatever it is. You know, it's, you, there really has to be some consideration for the accused

because, as we all know, there have been false accusations in the past and there will continue to be. But in the case of children, you can't just, you really have to, you really have to take them seriously from the first sign, from the first, uh, uh, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, um, The first time somebody makes an accusation, it would behove everyone involved to have the teacher go on a leave because it's not the kind of thing that you just let stay the way it is. If the accusations are true, people like this do not belong anywhere near schools. Here's some of the points that are important to emphasize. 37-year-old Michael Swiny of Buckingham County.

He turned himself in this past Wednesday. He's been arrested on charges of sex crimes involving children. According to a release, the charges follow a month-long investigation that started this past January when a child reported to police that a staff member at their school had engaged in inappropriate sexual contact. Investigators later determined that three other... juvenile victims had made similar reports between August of 2024 and January of 26. Swiney was indicted on Monday last week on seven felony counts of aggravated sexual battery,

three felony counts of indecent liberties, and one felony count of attempted aggravated sexual battery. He's currently being held in the Admiral Charlottesville Regional Jail, and investigators are asking parents to speak with their sons. daughters, anyone that's been in contact with Swiney to see if he has victimized other children. Often with these types of arrests and circumstances, there's other victims that come to the forefront. This is the most recent arrest. In March, Nicholas Clark was arrested on child pornography charges.

He also worked at Woodbrook Elementary School. So you have two educators within ACPS. this one, a teacher, Nicholas Clark, who was charged with the distribution of child pornography that was since reduced to a possession charge of child pornography. Parents are asking, what the hell is going on? Parents are asking for transparency. Parents are asking for better communication. Parents are asking, why didn't you prepare us sooner?

Why did we find out, like the rest of the community? community to do with an email in our inbox? Why was Swati allowed to continue teaching or continue being employed or if there was a smoke, fire, if there was any accusations of any kind?

Was it August of 2024 or 25? It was August of 2024. Similar reports. August of 2024 through January of 26. That's an incredible amount of time for someone to be working at a school around children when there's been an accusation.

What do you make of the petition? What do you make of what's next? Carol Thorpe, your thoughts. She's watching the program. I think you're right. As many people can sign the petition should because it is so deeply concerning that there were accusations what, a year and a half ago, almost two years ago, towards one of these people.

And he's just now, parents are just now, I mean, how many, I don't even want to think about how many people this guy may, how many children this guy may have affected in the course of that time, when he could have been, at the very least, on a probation, on, you know, I don't know how schools normally do, deal with this kind of thing, but you don't leave them in charge of children.

And affecting is not just physical contact. Affecting is grooming, affecting is communication, conversation, digital communication and digital conversation. It's so many different ways of negatively affecting here. The school board, what's the school board going to do question? wise. How's the school board going to respond to this? Does the school board address this? Does the school

board use the out? Our attorneys are looking into this, but because this is an active investigation, we're not going to make any comments on this in any capacity. Oh, that's what's going to be expected of Matthew Haas at a school board meeting? Is there any kind of additional

communication or correspondence from Matthew Haas, the superintendent? These are fair questions. The petition that's circulating, have you signed it, viewers and listeners? Even if you're not in Almore County Public Schools as a parent, you should sign this petition. This is a no nonsense. This is we're not going to tolerate it. This is the foot stops. It stops here. The protection of children should fall on everyone's shoulders. Harts that. The community. The community. The community.

should be about protecting and helping our children grow up without this type of horror entering their lives. And when does the accountability and the attention pick up more with Dr. Matthew Haas? I have been very, I've been openly critical of Haas over the years. And I've been openly critical of Haas because of data points that, justify my criticism. The struggle in SOL performance, the cost per pupil spending blowed at the top of the employment hierarchy, Haas and his lieutenants, the trouble with school protection, the equity grading, the stigmatization and the villainization of ideologies and opinions and thought processes that don't fall within

Almaro County Public Schools air quotes standards. Okay, perfect example is the Noah Kaufman turning point USA Western Almorel chapter. It's the trouble with the football team, the JV football team at Almoreal High School with the locker room incident that we covered closely. Some of the struggles with drug use within the school systems. we covered that extremely well on the I Love Seville show the vacancies with school bus drivers

that is a is a continued issue and has become an issue yet again Almore County Public Schools maintaining school bus drivers yeah how it managed COVID in the pandemic how it managed hybrid learning redistricting rebranding and renaming of schools I mean we remember the rebranding and renaming of Mary Weather Elementary and Kale Elementary. Yeah. To name a few. Jack Jewett. Yeah.

Oh, the horror. We could continue. And the trying campaign of 2025, 2025, 26 followed a trying campaign of the previous year. And the year before that, they have not figured it out coming out of COVID. And Weldon Cooper now is suggesting the enrollment data for Almore County Public Schools and the very near future is going to diminish and drop. And still Almore County Public Schools is asking for more and more money from taxpayers and supervisors for an additional school, more money for educators, more money for bus drivers, more money for student pupil average allocation. when do we ask what is going on here with leadership? If this was the corporate world,

if this was a professional corporate setting, and I understand education is not, a change would have been made by now. Yeah, where's the return? And really, you know, it just makes me sad. It makes me, as a parent of two kids, when you send your sons, my wife and I, to school. That is our hearts walking outside of our body. And for eight hours a day,

eight and a half hours a day, we just need to have to have, we just need to have this inherent trust that they're going to be okay. Are they going to be okay? They're out of our purview. Are they going to be okay? They're out of our vision and our watch. And we just have to trust they are. imagine the moms and dads that let their kids go to an elementary school and these kids were groomed by a 37-year-old and I don't even want to get or want to know what this person did to these kids. No. And how many are out there? And put yourself in the shoes of the parents whose kids this has. happen to and what the parents are feeling right now. The array of emotions. I hate to say it,

but are we expecting a civil suit against the school anytime in the future? I mean, if I knew my kid had been in an environment for almost two years where there had been accusations against a teacher, and I can't even imagine being a parent and finding out that it had happened to your own child. Conan Owen watching the program, he says, I don't think you can call it challenges when they are self-inflicted wounds. Vanessa Parkhill, it's a human resources issue, is what Elmore County Public Schools will say. It will be Logan Wells Claylow,

Olivia Branch watching the show, John Player watching the show, print radio and television is watching the program. It will be so very sad, weak, and pathetic when we hear from the school board that this is a active investigation and we will not comment upon it. Yeah. And parents, that's what you can expect. And as previous folks have said on the program, this is an organic advertisement for why public school enrollment locally is dropping. the private schools don't even have to have a campaign, an advertising campaign of any capacity to drive enrollment.

They just need to let Dr. Matthew Haas run his school division and his school district as he is. Yeah, like Conan said. And that is so sad. Yeah. And, you know, for the private school parents that are watching this program, they're paying twice, and it pales in comparison to what some of these families are going through. with being victims of these men. But you're paying for private school tuition and your tax dollars.

60% of Alamoire County's yearly budget goes to public schools. 60% of the budget for Alamara County public schools. 60% of the budget for Alamara County, Virginia is going to public schools. This will yield even further or amplify or stoke the gentrification. of education locally. And stories like this. Comments put them in the feed. We'll relay them live on air.

Judah Wilkauer, anything else you want to add, James Watson, Rob Neal, Don Gathers, Holly Foster, Neil Williamson, Brent Lillard watching the program. A lot of Almore County Public Schools parents watching the show right now. There needs to be at the next school board meeting a level of accountability, demanding accountability. accountability and a push back on, this is an active investigation, we will not comment on it. And I certainly hope to God that announcements are not coming at the end of the year or when

schools over during a summer period of time, when families and media platforms are distracted by vacations and trips and summer camps and away from the day-to-day grind of a school year. because if this is a timely press release, when I used to work in print, radio and television, the press releases on the terrible stories, the sad stories, the bankruptcy stories,

or the closing stories, or the investigative stories, the press releases that were set, always came in Friday at like a 5.30 p.m. I hope it's not anything like that, ladies and gentlemen. Yeah, no doubt. I'm just,

I just pray that, that we've already heard the extent of things and that no more is found. It may be a faint hope, but I pray that this is all of it. Same prayer from John Blair, who's watching on LinkedIn.

I pray for all the families and the children involved and hope we all can say a similar prayer. Yeah. And to close on that, maybe when we're elected, electing school board members moving forward, those school board candidates should be vetted before we vote for them with questions like, how are you going to handle these two cases that happen at Woodbrook? How would you have handled these differently?

And the background checks, why do these not come up on background checks? I mean, I can understand with the first guy. I don't even know how, I don't know how they, you know, they work out that somebody is accessing that type of material. But it's not the type of thing unless you've either been found out or you haven't. And if you haven't, I don't see how it would turn up on a background check. in the case of Swiney. I mean, I don't know if there were any allegations against him at Woodbrook, but it's definitely concerning that two years went by without anything being done

after the first accusation in August of 2024. I mean, that's horrendous. this puts in perspective real estate transactions we have a few other topics we'll get to on the I Love Seville Show now at the 102 marker what's the first headline is it the hilltop road transaction let's see read it on out loud

I'm putting it on screen now it's the city is 1330 Hilltop Reaming 1330 Hilltop Road sells for 2.24 million on June 1st. I Love Seville subscribers. The first to get this information, it's $8 a month.

The subscribership for both Jerry Rackleff and I Love Seville are booming. 1330 Hilltop Road when a residential listing, this happens in Almore County all the time. Holmes sold for $2 million. Home sold for $2 million.

dollars. Homes sold for $2 million more in the city of Charlestville are not nearly as common places they are in Almaro County. Outside of Almaro County, you really in Central Virginia are not seeing a lot of $2 million plus transactions of residential variety. Yeah. 1330 Hilltop Road. We have a photo we can put on screen. I just had it up. Yeah, put it back on screen if you could. It closed. What day did it close? We have that on the lower third. Yeah, it's sold on June 1st. Beautiful home. Fantastic

location. $2,240,000, four bedrooms, five baths, 4,600 square feet, built in 1998, a third of an acre, ladies and gentlemen, one third of an acre, a absolutely gorgeously remodeled home. You can search it online if you'd like.

Beautiful interiors, modern gray walls, Modern finishes and fixtures. Fantastic kitchen. Black and white. Fantastic, elegant back splash. Top-of-the-line appliances. I mean, top-of-the-line laundry room.

Absolutely gorgeous property. Soup to nuts, remodel, and re-envisioning. $2,2,240,000 for a home in City of Charlottesville is something that I think is noteworthy and useworthy. and over the last couple of weeks you've seen two significant transactions in the city there was another one in the Fry Springs neighborhood tied to Loring Woodruff's

real estate company that sold I think of the 3 million neighborhood a lot of comments coming in on the first storyline Carol Thorpe will get to your comments in a matter as well I got two other real estate transactions

I want to highlight on the show The second transaction, put the lower third on screen and relay it live on air, Judah. That is 804 Preston Ave, and it sold for 1.6 million just five days ago. This is the Carpets Plus building. You got a photo you can put on screen, Judah? I do. Look at the screen, viewers and listeners. 8.05 Preston Avenue is what you should have, right?

804. No, 805, Preston Avenue. Okay. Yeah, if you can update that lower third of then post-production, you might make sure the headline is okay. 805 Preston Avenue, your Carpets Plus location. I think Blue Ridge Packing and Supply is the neighbor next to the Carpets Plus building or business.

It's a, you know, I think this is a significant transaction because of where it's located in Charlottesville City on a prominent quarter. We follow the real estate sales and closings closely on the show and we relay them to our subscribers. These are prominent ones that we're passing along to you

on this show, which will always be pro bono and remain free. And then the third and final one, I think, is the most noteworthy to the population, to the viewership and listenership, and it's the Fontaine Avenue sale of the Guadalajara. An LLC, Fontaine 2206, real estate LLC, purchased the Guadalajara real estate.

This is the restaurant itself. And the restaurant, the real estate, sold for $1.1 million. Interestingly, it was purchased in October of 2021, so not quite five years ago, for the same $1.1 million. correction this one sold for one million 110,000 on the fourth of June of this year so a $10,000 price difference a $10,000 difference between October 2021 and June of 26 1.1 million versus 1.1 million 1.110,000 that had been on the market for a long period of time Guadalajara had closed down that location the family a while ago and was looking to sell it for an extended period of time.

I believe if memory serves correct, the Atlas coffee is also included in it and very confident about that next door. That's a prime piece of real estate right there. Carol Thorpe, her photo on screen, he says, there should be no daylight between people in our community. Like you, I feel we are going to hear the excuse.

This is a personnel matter, so we cannot comment from the school board and Dr. Haas. William McChesney says the real estate on hilltop is a nice little cape cod. At least they did not paint the brick. Susan Bailey Shimp watching the program, Olivia Branch, Vanessa Park Hill, William McChesney. Painting the brick, pros and cons of it. I do like the white brick look,

but I do know that the value of the brick is the fact that you don't have to maintain the brick. And when you start painting brick, then that creates maintenance on brick, which was the whole point, or one of the whole upsides of having a brick house. You do see a ton of white painted or whitewashed brick homes in this community.

Print radio and television is all over the show. We'll give some love to Stanley Martin Holmes, Judah Wickauer. Did you know that Stanley Martin Holmes has built more than 600 homes in Central Virginia in the last two years? Did you know Stanley Martin Holmes is bringing 47, 48 homes to the Fry Springs neighborhood soon? 80 homes or so, Breezy Hill and Glenmore, right outside Glenmore and Keswick, Stanley Martin Holmes.

Hundreds of homes in the Green County area. Stanley Martin Holmes is dedicated to building homes that cater to each person's unique needs and lifestyles, high-quality single-family homes, townhomes, and condominiums designed and constructed with innovative techniques that in ensure exceptional efficiency and aesthetic appeal. Stanley, Martin, Holmes. Judah Wickower, anything else you want to add to the show? No, not right now. If you missed the Jerry and Jerry show this morning, you missed a fantastic one.

We talked about the future of media as it pertains to UVA sports, and will a contract eventually not be renewed with its radio station partners. And will Virginia sports properties live in a world, or will we live in a world with Virginia sports properties where the athletic department chooses to broadcast the coverage of its athletic events in a streaming scenario similar to what we're doing on the Isle of Seville Network and remove radio partners from that relationship?

And in this streaming world where the athletic department controls the content and coverage, could they then paywall the content and coverage to fans and say, if you want to hear the play-by-play, the pre-game, the post-game, the color commentary of UVA and Virginia Tech, then you need to subscribe to our media platform. And if they did it for all of football games, all of basketball games, all of basketball games, games. You have 43 individual live contests that you could potentially monetize through a paywall at, what, $5 a game plus in-game advertising. And what if they added all of the other sporting events as well? What would that do to an athletic department's bottom line that is now asking all of its head coaches to

endow their programs? Carla Williams has very vocally and very well-known, told all the non-revenue sports that they will be fully endowed and financially self-sufficient in the very near future, or they risk losing varsity status or have their travel budget, their ACC status diminished or cut. Departments are struggling for financial feasibility. Is a way to solve that the costly nature of running athletic department through the monetization of broadcasting, without radio partners and behind paywalls for content. That's a topic I want to talk about this week on the I Love Seville Show. His name is Judah Wickhauer.

My name is Jerry Miller. This is the water cooler of content and conversation. It's the I Love Seawal Show.