The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Who's Most At Fault In AlbCo Predator Scandal?; Should School Board Request Principal's Resignation?

Episode Date: June 15, 2026

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Welcome to the I Love Seville Show, guys. It's Monday afternoon in downtown Charlestville, and you're watching and listening to the water cooler of content and conversation in Charlottesville and across Almore County, Central Virginia, the Commonwealth, the country, and the world. And today we're talking about a child sex predator scandal that has absolutely rocked and demoralized our community. By now, you know, a social, social-emotional learning coach. a fellow by the last name Swiney. I guess pronounced Sweeney. I like swine.

It does seem to fit. The swine fits. A fellow by the last name Sweeney, who was not licensed and had a office that was windowless, cameraless, tucked and hit it in the way of a back of a library at an elementary school, A fellow who had a list of student names that were the most vulnerable of students, that were earmarked as social, emotional learning cases to follow.

A fellow that had rumor-milled predator allegations at a previous school at Woodbrook, a fellow who had rumor-milled previous predator allegations at a group home prior to taking a job at Woodbrook was somehow given a walkie-talkie, unlimited access to an elementary school, a windowless, cameraless, hidden office that could have its door locks, its door locked, and a list of the most vulnerable students at the school to meet in one-on-one settings for extended period of time. I'm going to ask a very straightforward question. The adult who is most to blame in this child sex scandal,

who is it? Obviously, swiney, Sweeney is number one. Who's in the number two lists? Matthew Haas, the superintendent, the school board asked him to resign Thursday evening, at a school board meeting. Is Haas being made to be the sacrificial lamb, the scapegoat? What about the principal Joe McCauley?

What about the principal who's in charge of the elementary school? What level of accountability does he have here? And when do parents start requesting Joe McCauley's resignation? How about the vice principal? We're going to unpack that story on today's show. And speaking of voting, ladies and gentlemen, are we able to get an understanding of how the Alamore County School Board vote played out? I mean, Kada Koff were told left during closed session.

If Kada Koff left during the closed session, does that mean Kada Koff, who is a staunch supporter of Matthew Haas, did not vote? Sincere question for you. The Jack Jewett District Representative Kate Akoff, did she vote or did she not vote for Haas's resignation? I would imagine Jim Dillon Beck was an overwhelming yes for Matthew Haas's resignation. I don't want to assume instinct would say so.

Judah, your instinct? That's tough. I don't know what, should I put myself on screen? Yeah, please. Let's see. I don't know what Jim Dillenbeck knows and

in this case like we're talking about I don't know how you know I see I see as I see Haas as a sacrificial lamb did any of this actually reach him that's my question

I really want to know more and so you know in terms of in terms of making sure the right people are held accountable. Knowing Jim Dillon back, I trust his judgment, and I honestly couldn't say where he would vote here. Viewers and listeners, let us know your thoughts. Put them in the feed. We'll relay him live on air.

Alison Spillman, how did she vote? The vice chair. Rebecca Berlin, the chair. How did she vote? Ellen Osborne, Scottsville District Representative. How does she vote? Bob Beard, the Samuel Miller District Representative, how did he vote? Judy Lee, Rivana District, Jim Dellenbick, Ryo District, and Kada Cuff, the word on the street is

Kada Cuff left the closed session. Does that mean the most staunch supporter of Matthew Hoss, Kada Cuff, did not vote yes for Matthew Hoss's resignation? And speaking of Hoss, are you looking at the most embattled leader in the Charlottesville-Almoral Central Virginia area in the last 26 years. And the reason I'm kind of quantifying this as a 26-year marker is I first arrived here as the first year at the University of Virginia in the fall of 2000. So in August, or excuse me, in August of 2000, right before my first year,

Davney 101, old dorms, I lived. I've been here 26 years in August. I'm going to cap it at 26 years because that's really what I know for Charlottesville, Albemarle, and Central Virginia. And I started working in the news business prior to my third year, working for Jerry Rackleff, the star of the Jerry and Jerry show, which you can catch right here on the I Love Seville Network Tuesdays at 10.15 a.m. I work for him right before my third year started. So that was 2002. So I've been in news following what's going on for a very long period of time. I don't know a more embattled leader. John Blair, this is right up your alley. A more embattled leader locally. I mean, does that shortlist? Grab a pen and paper here for a short list.

I should have my pen and paper here. In fact, do you have an extra pen that I can utilize? Yeah. I'll keep this short list here. Dr. Brackney, the chief of police, has got to be on that list of embattled leaders. Nikaya Walker, geez, Louise. Is Nikail Walker the head of that list? Is Matthew Haas on an embattled leader list of the list of the list?

the last 26 years with Nikail Walker, Chief Rishall Brackney of the Charlestville Police Department. You keep in track of these? John, who else is on this list? I mean, Al Thomas was only here for a cup of coffee. I can't put him on the list. Dr. Tarion Richardson was certainly embattled, but not to the tune of Haas, Brackney, and Walker. West Bellamy was embattled, but I can't imagine West Bellamy, the, the last level of vitriol and nastiness that Dr. Bellamy faced is not what Chief Brackney,

a doctor, Matthew Hossa doctor, and former Mayor Nikiah Walker have faced. Who else is on that list? I mean, is Jim Ryan on that list? Has to be, right? I would think so. Most embattled leaders in the last 26 years, Theresa, Terry Sullivan's not on that list. Although she was pushed out by the Board of Visitors at the University of Virginia, only to be reinstated when faculty went to bat for her and said they would refuse to teach unless Sullivan was reinstated as UVA president. We'll talk about that on the program today. There's a lot to cover on the docket. I'm trying to unpack the collateral damage of what's happened here in Alamara County.

This has been a trying, challenging year for Almore County Public Schools. Equity grading school resource officers. collective bargaining, bus driver shortages, kids that are ODing in schools. The average spend per pupil, one of the most expensive in the Commonwealth for any school system that's out there, Albor County Public Schools,

rebranding and renaming, redistricting, a $250 million dollar northern feeder high school request from the school board? I mean, I could continue if you'd like. The child's sex predator scandal, the worst of the worst. We're going to talk about this on the program today. On most days, when the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority, the CRHA is sued for a phony COVID PPP loan, that is the lead of the show. When the Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority is being sued for basically a phony

PPP loan during the pandemic, we would be talking about that on the lead of the program, but it takes a backseat despite a $1.5 million lawsuit over phony Fugazi ineligible PPP loans. Goodness gracious, it continues, ladies and gentlemen. And they're somewhere in City Hall, Sam Sanders is breathing a sigh of relief. And you know why Sam Sanders is breathing a sigh of relief?

the city manager who is as embattled as any city manager right now in the Commonwealth of Virginia is breathing a sigh of relief because the new cycle is off of him. It's off the fact that one of his lieutenants quit after five months on the job. It's the attention's off of him, despite the neighborhood development services head quitting, despite being on the job a year and change, despite having a building inspection department that has no people, Word on the street, there's one building inspector for all the projects in the city, and the city is having to outsource the workload because it can't maintain building inspectors. In fact, ladies and gentlemen, there's a former Charlottesville City Hall building inspector

that has a burner Reddit account. And this former Charlottesville building inspector with a Fugazi burner Reddit handle is posting the nasty, dirty, disgusting secrets, of city hall and building inspection for the entire public to see. Somewhere Sam Sanders, who has now had two men die at tent town, an encampment that is only growing in momentum

on the banks of the Rivana River under one of the most important passageways into the city, Free Bridge. Two men have died, used disgusting white china dripping DNA-soaked heroin needles are all over the ground next to the woods and the pile of human feces and urination. 6.2 million for a holiday drive purchase

that is now approaching month 7 and we don't even have a budget for the $6.2 million that was spent next to those hotels in an institutional stakehouse. Maybe the hotels and the institutional steakhouse next to the bypass just have to be quiet because the incompetence of the city, it may never materialize. Somewhere Sam Sanders is breathing a sigh of relief because the attention is not on him.

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A lot to cover on the broadcast. Judah, I'm going to ask you some straightforward questions, okay? We learned last week in a public dialogue between the interim Almore County Police Chief and Dr. Matthew Haas, the superintendent, that the investigation started in January. We learned last week in this dialogue between the interim chief and the embattled superintendent that the investigation started in January and it was a result of that

investigation that police uncovered sex, child sex scandal predator behavior at Woodbrook Elementary. Yeah. So the January investigation, it started, started in January, and that investigation put a nasty spotlight on child sex offender behavior alleged at Woodbrook Elementary.

We also learned at that Wednesday evening, Hollymead town hall that absolutely imploded and was the definition of the worst public relations I've ever seen in my life some of the worst communication strategy

I've ever seen in my life that Wednesday town hall we also learn that the investigation started in January but parents were not notified until June when they read reports in the media about their kids going to

school with a man whose mugshot was posted on legacy media and 11 counts of child sex offender felonious behavior was included next to his mugshot. So the communication was piss poor even more.

I think I've got to push back a little on that. Please. In part, I understand. Think about it this way. In January, when the investigation started, the police were not charging Sweeney with anything. And it

would have been, it would have been, what's the word I'm looking for? Premature? Not just premature. Tipping of the hand? Not even tipping of the hand. They could have ruined a man's life. If the police had not found anything actionable,

then for the school to go and tell people, hey, this guy that works here is on probation because he may be involved in a child sex scandal. if he ended up if they ended up not finding anything I think the school would have been in a lot of legal trouble obviously they were they were you know

navigating a you know a very sharp blade and I think telling the the students telling the parents that that this guy might be a sexual predator would have been jumping the gun

however however where Parents, do you buy what Judah's laying down right there? Whoa! However, where I think they seriously misstepped was the fact that when this meeting took place, they should have had an answer for what we're going to do. What we did wrong, what we could have changed, how we're going to prevent this from happening in the future. And the fact that they had no answer to that, despite the fact that this investigation had been ongoing for five months,

is scary. 11 felonies including seven counts of aggravated sexual battery, three counts of taking indecent liberties with children, and one count of attempted aggravated sexual battery. Judas says an investigation that starts in January, there should be temperance, patience, and playing the long game when notifying parents. So not to ruin a man's professional and personal life.

That's what you're saying. somewhere between a January investigation and a June mugshot published in legacy media where most of parents found out, there is a time period of notification, Judah. And yes, maybe you go January through the end of the first quarter or even into the second quarter, like April. But the way parents should not find out is, oh my God, that's the teacher at my kid's school. John and Jennifer met with him yesterday. What's going on? If the police haven't charged the guy,

I've got to say that you're looking at, I mean, heck, the school's looking at lawsuits anyways, but this is similar to what happened to the guy on the Ravenna Trail who was charged with groping and basically had his name. I think these are extremely different scenarios, but go ahead. They're not that different. You're talking about the tall fellow. on the Rivana Trail that was wearing a hood that was groping women passerby's.

And you're comparing and contrasting the tall fellow on the Rivana Trail initially a man arrested by the Charlottesville Police Department. Had his name dragged through the mud and I believe he's currently suing the city. I may have gotten a payout. May have gotten a payout. one of the few mistakes we've seen under the Chief Kachis administration, one of the very few. And speaking, Chief Kachis, how about the fact that the police department is paying for the Fourth of July fireworks? How cool is that?

Props. In conjunction with Dr. West Bellamy in the Tonsler Basketball League as a way to try to mitigate the gun violence we saw in Orredale Avenue last year at the 4th of July when there was a gun fight in OK Corral. style gunfight on Orangedale Avenue in the city of Charlottesville, Mike Kachis and the police department on their own budget are going to pay for the fireworks. I thought it was a genius move. I love seeing the long-form content with Mike Kachis and Dr. West Bellamy and a couple of other fellows putting the word out there about the fireworks celebration. I thought it was genius. Mike Kachis, if he's not an award-winning police officer, the George Kloonia policing, he could probably be an actor. What can't this man do? Jesus.

I don't think it's comparable at all, Judah. You linking a Rivana Trail groper to a teacher who is unlicensed that has access to the most vulnerable kids at an elementary school who are not chaperoned by their parents in any capacity, who are then taken to a windowless, cameraless, sex dungeon in the back of a library where the door is locked, for extended periods of times, multiple times in some circumstances. Yeah, but we're not comparable.

We're not discussing their crimes or their alleged crimes. We're discussing how you go about explaining or announcing that you're investigating someone. Parents, what do you think? Watching the program. Should Sweeney have been given, should parents have been given earlier notification of what was happening with Sweeney, or was the timeline of communication appropriate? Stacey Baker-Pattie agrees with Judah. 100% in agreement with Judah. Viewers and listeners, what are your thoughts? Put them in the feed. We will relay them live on air. The Golden Apple Award winning teacher

Tom Stardjell, retired Amore County Public School teachers watching the show. He says it would seem a perfect opportunity to keep Haas would have been it would seem a perfect I don't understand that comment there's a, I can't understand that what you're writing there, Tom Sarjo if you offer some more clarity on that comment I'll

relay it live on air. He also says there must be a paper trail leading back to Haas. I have a hard time believing he let that happen though. I don't, I, that's what I think Jude and I are an agreement there. Yeah. I think Matthew Haas, the superintendent, has

so much shit hitting the fan right now that he is overwhelmed overwhelmed with crap and in this particular circumstance the crap slides up the professional hierarchy pyramid go ahead I'm afraid that

that his resignation is going to hide people that really do deserve to be sent packing I think you might be right. If Matthew Haas is forced to resign and the school board asks for his resignation, they're basically saying leadership malpractice, negligence. With that mindset or argument, does that then also not fall in the school board?

Should Judy Lee, the school board representative for the Rivana district where this school is located, not face the same type of scrutiny? Should the school board chair, Rebecca Berlin, who absolutely botched the town hall at Holly Meade Elementary last week. If you did not watch our show from Friday this past week, last Friday show, one of the best shows we've ever done. We played eight or nine videos from the Wednesday evening Hollymead Town Hall and from the Thursday evening school board meeting. It has since gone viral and across 27 different social media platforms has been. seen by tens of thousands of unique IP addresses. Ladies and gentlemen, one of the best pieces of content we've ever created. I encourage you to watch that show from start to finish.

It's the most thorough analysis of the child sex predator scandal that we have seen so far in Charlottesville, Outmoral, and Central Virginia, and it's courtesy of the I Love Seville Network. Judy Lee was present, so was Rebecca Berlin. Should they be held accountable? And how about the effing principle? Joe McCauley, the principal of an elementary school. I have to believe that he knew it was going on.

The parents at the Wednesday evening town hall said, we told you and we have the receipts that something sketchy was going on. They screamed it on the record in the town hall. Joe, we knew this was going on. And we told you it was going on and we have the receipts. Yeah. Why has Joe McCauley the principal? of Hollymead Elementary not been asked to resign.

If you're Joe McCauley, do you offer your resignation willingly? He said Wednesday at the town hall that this will haunt him for the rest of his life if these allegations are true. For the rest of his life, this will haunt him. Yeah. And it should, especially if he was aware. And Joe McCauley's behavior during that town hall left a lot to be desired. combative, dismissive, antagonistic, unwilling to listen to learn, lacking emotional intelligence and empathy,

all fit Joe McCauley and the Wednesday Town Hall. I don't know him from Adam, but I did watch the town hall on two different occasions, and Joe McCauley, the principal of Hollymead Elementary, you're going to hear this. I've been told you're watching and listening to the show, Joe McCauley, you need to hear what I'm going to say. that Wednesday town hall with your combative antagonistic nature will also haunt you for the rest of your life

because that will be a part of your digital tombstone when your grandkids Google Joe McCauley principal that's going to show up on YouTube when you're six feet under and you're in the afterlife your grandkids will be watching that I hope you hear that sir

Malcolm Inge watching the program Sweeney was suspended during the investigation. He was suspended. He was not allowed to continue meeting with kids. Yes, he was suspended. William McChesney says, how about Chris Dumbler? Dumbler, the Scottsville District, Almore County Supervisor.

He's got to be on the list. Chris Dumbler. Put him on the list of most embattled leaders. I believe he was a Republican. I believe the Scottsville District supervisor, and I'm doing a quick Google search. Yeah, I've got them up here on Sevillepedia. Was linked to...

How do I choose my words carefully here? He was arrested and charged with one count of forcible sodomy. In October of 2012, he later pled guilty to misdemeanor sexual battery and sentenced to 30 days in jail. Dumbler continued to represent the Scottsville Magisterial District despite protest at board meetings that called for his resignation.

He only resigned following the end. end of a petition process. Chris Dumbler. He's got to be on that list. Matthew, so the embattled leader list is Matthew Haas, Dr. Rishall Brackney, the chief of police former, former Mayor Nakaya

Walker, who was just off a rocker, including comparing the city of Charlottesville, she was the leader of, the mayor of, to rape allegory and cum-stained sheets. I was picked up in the New York

times, Jim Ryan's list of embattled decision making is well documented. And now Chris Dumbler, that's the list you don't want to be on. Anyone else we should add to that list? Viewers and listeners, William McChesney, great suggestion. Hank Martin watching the program. Oh, this is too long to read, Hank. Can't read. I love your commentary, Hank.

Hank, you're an incredible addition to the family. But I just cannot read a thousand words on the I Love Seville show as a comment. I'll read a little bit of handsome Hank Martin's comment. This is probably 1,500 words here. The absolute failure of leadership we are witnessing in Almore County is not something sudden or new. It's been an ever-growing snowball for a decade, while the community reels from the horrifying arrested Hollybead Elementary consider the brutal irony of school board's voting record. Yeah, 100%.

Just last year, the board voted to extend Haas's contract yet again with the only dissent coming from Allison Spillman, and let's not mistake that for a profile in courage or parental advocacy. She continues. He continues with this. All that is succinct analysis to what he's talking about here. This is something that I find incredibly damning. Are you ready for this, Judah? Yeah.

The school board can vote to shut down Turning Point USA. Yeah. And prevent Turning Point USA Western Amoral High School chapter to have Charlie Kirk's, the late Charlie Kirk's wife, speak at on school grounds or during school hours. And they can do that instantaneously. I don't know if that's entirely true. Immediately they did it.

They put policy in play that prevented it. It was a few days. Yet the school board does not have the wherewithal or the immediacy or the urgency to put policy in play that prevents teachers from meeting with students in one-on-one settings with the door closed and the door locked and no camera in place.

or does not put policy in play for better communication with parents? I got a text message before the show started from Noah Cawfin who wants to have a conversation with me about everything that's going on. Anything you want to add to this before we get to more comments here? Suzanne Daly says the principal needs to be fired, not offered a resignation. Hosh should have been fired as well. I agree. Tom Starchel, the school board had a perfect operational.

opportunity to save Haas by immediately firing the principal. I think Haas was fired and viewers and listeners may not want to hear this. I think Matthew Haas was asked to resign on Thursday evening for a number of reasons. It was not just the child sex predator scandal, but it was how he handled the meeting on Wednesday. Yeah. And compounding the matter was all the other hoopla and negative. attention that is associated with the Dr. Matthew

Haas' personal and professional brand. I've never seen a superintendent more disliked than Dr. Matthew Haas. And someone floated a suggestion to me as a replacement for Dr. Matthew Haas. How about principal Rick Verhovaq? He's at Henley Middle School. How Rick Verhovaq handled the truancy

protest at Henley he it was a master class with how to manage it Rick Verhovaq this was the truancy protest in regards to Judah yeah when the students walked out of the school to protest ice and ice yeah the ice truancy protest

the one principal that handled it masterfully was Rick Verhova former Admiral high school football head football coach principal at Henley Middle School that's a fantastic Intrador Superintendent waiting to happen if he would take the job. Ask yourself this question.

Who would take that job? Why would you take that job, viewers and listeners, the superintendent position of Almore County Public Schools? John Blair's got a comment, his photo on screen. Jerry, a couple of others come to mind. Recall how much, this is the embattled leader list, Judah. Recall how much scrutiny the Charlottesville registrar came under over the cell phone issue. Also, most people have forgotten this, but Charlottesville High School hired a new principal for the 2013-2014 school year.

The individual resigned two days before students returned to school. It's two suggestions from John Blair, who's got institutional memory. Sarah Williams on YouTube is watching the program. She says this. If something involves kids, it needs to be brought to the parents' attention at the school or the schools. why not put an administrative on leave instead of being moved so she doesn't agree with your timeline of communication I don't I would I would

I don't I don't ever want to speak for my wife never do I want to speak for my wife but I know her as well as anyone knows her I mean hell we've been together for 11 years If she found out about an alleged child sex predator at one of our sons that interacted with one of our sons at elementary school. And if she found out about that through a mugshot on NBC29, as some of these parents at the Wednesday town hall indicated, that would burn her to the core. Yeah. Sarah Williams said

He made a mockery of hurt and concerned parents about their children She's watching on YouTube Sherry Wilcombe watching the program Parents are divided on this Some in the Judah camp Suzanne Daley agrees with Judah There has to be space for not dragging someone

through the mud if there's still an ongoing investigation That said six months to investigate This seems too long with involving children So she's not really in your camp She is in a camp. The problem is not... The police chief, the interim police chief interrupted Matt Hauss in that Wednesday town hall

and said, dude, you could have told the parents. It wasn't going to interrupt the investigation. Do you remember when she said that? Yeah, I vaguely remember. That's the second clip. Do you have the second clip? Yeah, let's see. It's the second clip. Look at this. This is the interim police chief

putting Matt Ha... I'm going to watch and watch... listen to it in real time too. This is the interim police chief putting Matt Haas in his place because Matt Haas was trying to blame this on the Almaro County investigation. He was trying to use the Almaro County investigation as the reason why he did not communicate with parents. Do you have clip two? I'm just making sure. Hold on. We called it second clip. Tell me if you got that. Okay. Hold on. I'm going to put it right here.

You got it? Just a second. I'm going to make sure it's the right one. Haas talking and then the police chief coming in and interrupting Haas. And the police chief is the interim chief. You got it? Yeah. How long is this clip?

I couldn't tell you. Actually, I think I might have it. All right. Play the second clip. Listen to this viewers and listeners. This is the interim police chief interrupting Haas and saying, dude, you could have told the parents. Three, two, one. So make sure we hear that the expectation that they'll find out that they may be notified and what's the process to find out whether or not they've been contacted.

Well, really, that is a question for the police department, their timeline for following up on that. I don't think that you would interfere with our investigation if you were to notify parents that your child has been seen. Thank you. I appreciate that. And why didn't that not happen? Why was that not the first step? Because what I saw was in Mugshot on the news. And that's how we come out. Yeah.

And I really can't speak, and I know it's going to be frustrated, but I can't speak to our own internal investigations around Mr. Sweeney. When the Mugshot went out, I had a day's notice. You know, I'm really sorry. I don't have any issues or anything. But honestly, when we did reach out to the detective about this, we were told we were going to be interfering with the investigation and he would prefer to make those contacts himself.

So I'm happy to change course and start working on that if we have agreement with the police department on that. I don't. I'm not sure. It's corded. I don't know if we have any cordless mic. We're back. I had a hard time.

We're back? Yeah, I had a hard time hearing. All right. I'll just have this here. In this meeting, this is the Wednesday evening town hall at Hallameen Elementary that is extremely well attended by concerned parents, as you can see from that video. The fact that the communications team with Almar County Public Schools did not have a microphone for parents to ask their questions. Yeah. For 75% of that meeting, the first 75%.

is either gross incompetence or intentionally trying to silent the record because they knew that the video was going to be posted online and on social media and that platforms like the I Love Sevo show would get it. Matt Haas, in that Wednesday evening meeting, literally said, I'll still answer questions, but I'm not going to do it here behind the microphone. I'll do it away from a microphone. because he knew that this was being recorded and would be posted on the record

and that the most watched and listened to platform in all of Central Virginia, the I Love Seville Network, would get this. Okay? And Matt Haas, in that video, clearly is trying to deflect piss-poor communication by hiding behind a police investigation, an active one. Then the interim police chief interrupts Matthew Haas and says, nah, dude, you telling the parents this was going on would not have interrupted our investigation.

Don't put this on us. This is your malpractice and your leadership failure. So to answer the question of how we started the show, why were parents not notified when the investigation started in January and they found out about it through a mugshot on NBC29 in June? It's bogus. Just like that meeting where parents were not getting, giving a microphone that they could speak within.

They were expected to yell their loudest from their seat, the little tiny seats the second graders sit in. That's what the parents were sitting in. They were sitting in the little tiny seats the second graders sit in. The same tactics were utilized. They were hoping that time would have killed or depleted or diminished the story. And that is wrong. Hague Martin puts it succinctly for us.

I'm going to put it short and sweet. Mike Sweeney was the torpedo. Dr. Matthew Haas was the submarine. It was fired from. And the Almore County public school system, its school board is the Navy that made it all possible. There you go. It's a great analogy.

I think the school board needs to be careful of how it handles this because the legal exposure with the school board is obvious to me. No doubt. And maybe the school insurance policy protects the school system in totality. All the bureaucracy

protects the students in the school system in totality, but individually, individually Matt Haas and Joe McCauley got to be very concerned. Deep throats in the mix here, number one in the family. I have no idea how the principal can stay if Haas goes. Exactly. But the fact that he moved from one school of the district to another implicated district level staff.

30-something years ago, I spent a summer working for CBS News as an intern, and the story I worked on was about teachers who got bounced from school to school when they are suspected even caught behaving inappropriately. Rather than being fired and barred from ever teaching again, same old shit. You know what this reminds me of? Catholic priests. Yeah. What was the Michael Keaton, Michael Keaton movie Catholic priests on the Boston Globe in their spotlight efforts?

Oh yeah. The movie was called Spotlight. If you want a fantastic movie to watch tonight or over the next few days, I believe it's still on Netflix. It's called Spotlight. It stars Michael Keaton. It's a true story. A 2015 biographical drama film. Keaton plays an editor of the Boston Globe's Spotlight Investigative Team, which uncovered a massive, decades-long cover-up of child sex abuse within the Roman Catholic Church.

In this scandal, the Catholic Church would take the priests that were the child sex offenders and just reposition them in different parishes. Instead of eradicating the behavior, prosecuting the behavior, pursuing the behavior, cutting the head off the poisonous snake, all they would do was take the poisonous snake, grab it with that long metal claw, put it in a knapsack bag, and relocate the metal snake to a new set of woods where it could pray again. That's what happened here with Mike Sweeney. It's the Catholic Church priest scandal.

Oh, it was at the group home before he worked for Almore County Public Schools. In fact, let me see if his LinkedIn is still up. Michael, W-I-N-E-Y. Is that right, Judah? W-S-I-N-E-Y. What is it? S-W-I-N-E-Y. Is this LinkedIn still up?

I would hope to God someone took that down. It might be down. Someone screenshot it and sent it to me. Doing it up search while on the show right now. Michael Swiny, S-W-I-N-E-Y. Yeah, it's down. He worked at a group home before he worked at Woodbrook. And the scuttle butt has

this at the group home and it has it at Woodbrook and now at Hollymead. This is just the relocating of trouble. Yeah. Because otherwise you have to admit that you have a problem. In that scenario, does the cover-up go further than Matthew Haas then? Because someone in administration, upper administration, had to approve the transfer. Not only that, but what else has been swept under the rug before we heard about it? Yeah. I mean, there's this social media post that's going wild right now by Daisy Stevens Rojas. I'm not even sure I should read it. It's been screenshot and sent to me by a lot of people. And it was pointed out to me after church yesterday.

People are stopping Judah and church to talk about the child predator sex scandal. Because there's more. Like, how deep is this? This is the collateral damage. Ginny Who says Dumler was a Democrat. Thank you, Ginny Who. Darrell Beck watching the program on Twitter. Albuco should have let parents know that Sweeney was not currently at the school on some type of leave soon after he was placed on leave. No need for specifics.

I agree with Judah that exposing more details before a conviction could ruin life someone's life a la Patrick McAnemara. That's the Rivana Trail Groper. Yeah. That's not the... What? That's not the Rivana Trail Groper. Yeah.

That was not the Rivano Trail Groper. Yeah. That was not the Rivano Trail Groper. trail groper. Yeah, I still see that guy walking around down. I mean, I hope he got paid. I hope he got a big payday. He deserves a big payday. Ginny Who, there had to have been teachers

who noticed behavioral changes in the victims. As mandated reporters, did they make a report? If so, what happened to those reports? And if they did not report, should they also be held responsible? Questioner. Ginny Who, great questions. There should be a lower third on screen

about more collateral damage from the child, Put that on screen. The more collateral damage from child sex predator scandal, parents, bear with me here, okay? This is why this show works because we can take deep dives on an important conversation on talking points, okay?

So hear me out. Are you ready, Judah? If he had alleged child sex predator behavior at a group home before he worked at Woodbrook Elementary, and if he had the same alleged behavior at Woodbrook Elementary, and then transferred to Hollymead Elementary.

Clearly somebody within Almore County's public school system was not doing the proper due diligence. Yeah, I don't know what to say about the group home because we don't know if they, you know, if they swept things under the rug, but what we do know is that going from Woodbrook to Hollimede, that was, I would imagine, all internal to the school. and so and so

it's one thing to hire him at Woodbrook because we don't know if there was we don't know what the allegations would have been known coming from that group home but transferring him within the school system

you have to think that somebody knew it was going on and like you said with the Catholic scandal this is like the Roman Catholic Church right here and the petty priests this is what this is moving somewhere else

move them somewhere else and hope time heals and hope time heals and hope ignorance is bliss and hope people don't recognize the behavior. And apparently nobody got the memo that said, and whatever you do, don't let this guy into a closed room with a lone child. Yeah, but instead gave them the list of the most vulnerable kids in the school,

gave him in an office that had no cameras and no windows, and a door that could be locked, and the ability to carry a walkie-talkie that allowed him to hear the communication of anything that was going on in the school, and then allowed him to take the kids into a hidden office off the beaten path of an elementary school in a locked windowless, cameraless sex debt. And if we think that if anybody out there thinks that Hoss was the only one responsible for that, there's no way in hell he is. Come on.

Exactly right. That's why the headline is the more collateral damage of this child sex predator scandal. Guys, if you don't think more heads are going to roll here or should roll, then I don't think you're reading the T-leaves correctly. The principal should be fired. Okay, I'm going to change my tune right now. Joe McCauley, the principal of Hollymead Elementary School, my vantage point, one man's opinion, should be fired here.

He's the principal of the school. Okay? The next question is, does it go to the vice principal of the school? Yeah. I mean, the vice principal of the school is the eyes and ears walk in the hallways and being basically your operations director. What is that? Kimberly Gentry, the vice principal?

I mean, it's all public record. I'm on the website right now. Joe McCauley is the principal. Kimberly Gentry is the assistant principal, right? How about the point that Ginny Who made? The teachers that saw the sketchy behavior, did they make a report? Yeah. And who do they make the report to?

Right. And if the people they made the report too didn't do anything about it, what's their exposure and culpability and accountability? And we still don't understand the timeline between the August 2024 accusations and the beginning of the police investigation in January of this year. So were any of those accusations made to officials in the school between August of 2024 and January of 2026, I really want to know that

because that would give us much more information on the depth of this scandal. Right. And how about the point Ginny Who makes her photo on screen? This is a great point from Ginny Who. If mandated reporters did not file a report, should they also be held responsible? Yeah.

If teachers at Holly Mead or Woodbrook saw behavior that was sketchy and did not file a report as mandated reporters, the letter of the law, what is their level of accountability? Yeah. Okay, take it a step further. When does it start falling on the school board members?

The school board members are responsible for leading the school. If under the school board members watch, I mean, right now, and remember, the list is long. As of last week, it was 11 felonies. seven counts of aggravated sexual battery, three counts of taking a decent liberties, and one count of attempted aggravated sexual battery. And they, police, Elmore County Police said there was a lot of investigating still to go, and it was an extremely long list. The police chief said it. We played it last Friday.

If you missed last Friday show, you should watch it. It's the most inclusive, thorough reporting and analysis of this scandal, start to finish soup to nuts, possible. Nine video clips from two different meetings. You got to watch it. This is Almore County Public Schools. This scandal is a version of the Roman Catholic Church priest pedophile scandal. From the movie Spotlight with Michael Keaton, you should watch it. And the collateral damage, we don't even know what the collateral damage is yet.

It's the tip of the investigation. Yeah. Under Virginia Code 63.2-1509, the proper procedure for, handling allegations of child sex abuse against a public school teacher establishes strict immediate legal mandates for the individuals who undercover or receive the suspicion. Hank Martin passing on Virginia Code. Thank you, handsome Hank. Tom Sturgel, a retired Almore County public school teacher and a Golden Apple Award winner, says, you can bet those teachers understood the special relationship between Sweeney and McCauley,

and that McCauley was a Haas favorite, certain problems for teachers getting involved. So he's basically saying that Sweeney and McCauley and Matthew Haas are the same old boys club backroom wheeling and dealing. Remember, Haas created this position during COVID, the social emotional learning coach. Suzanne Daly, deep throat, 100% right. I saw this happen personally when I work for ACPS. This is a systemic problem in Almore County Public Schools. They move these teachers who have been reported to other schools in the county. and pretend it never happened.

This is the petty priest thing, Judah. Yeah, it's inexcusable. This is corruption. Is this not corruption? Not just corruption. It's, I mean, it's like putting people's children in a gun range. You're putting them directly in the firing line of a child predator. Any Almore County Public School parent that's watching this program,

are you not incredibly concerned with your child at Almore County Public Schools? And segue that into any public school system. When you lose the trust, it's like a health system, UVA health system. When the health system started losing the trust of patients going into hospitals because they were sick and vulnerable, The patients go to the health system because they think the health system has their best interest at heart. The whole UVA health system scandal when the health system was putting profits over patients doing dangerous surgeries because they drove revenue. That's when the house of cards crumbles because it's the mortar, the glue, the timber, the foundation is trust. It's the same thing with the public school system.

Viewers and listeners, you know the three main priorities the public school system has with children? I say this, I've said this so many times on the show. Number one, get kids safely into school on time. Number two, keep kids safe while in school. Number three, get kids home and safely on time. Those are the three most important things that public school can do. Forget the learning and the ABCs and the one, two, threes. Those are on the second level.

you can't get a kid to school on time and safely, maintain his safety or her safety during the school day, and home on time and safely, who cares if they can read or write? We'll continue talking about it on the water cooler of content and conversation. There's nobody covering this story like the I Love Seville Network, and frankly, there's no one that can cover the story like the I Love Seville Network. Everybody else that's covering this story is either a day late and a dollar short because they're limited with their journalistic stable of humans, or they have segments that are 12 minutes long. You can't even set the table in 12 minutes on this storyline before going to commercial break. But we just went 65 straight minutes. And we went

75 straight minutes on Friday, 70 straight minutes on Thursday, and 70 straight minutes on Wednesday. If you did not watch the Friday show, you need to watch it. It has gone viral. Judah Wickhauer was on point. My name is Jerry Miller. It's the I Love Cibo Show.