….He Admits System Failed in Child Porn Case

Prince George’s County school board chairman Segun Eubanks (Brother in Law to Rushern Baker III)

The Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) is in disarray amid allegations of corruption at the highest levels leading to calls from the members of the public for a thorough audit and a full investigation after latest sexual molestation of children. There are also demands that certain members of the Board of Education for Prince George’s County to be replaced and that the Board of Education for Prince George’s County take responsibility for growing scandals, financial mismanagement and debts of which they accuse the Maryland Governor of withholding US $20 million while the same Board is spending more than US $30 million in salaries and other issues unrelated to education at Sasscer administrative building in Upper Marlboro for personal glory. We will update you with more in-depth reporting and the way forward in the next few weeks. Stay tuned!

In the meantime, board chairman Segun Eubanks (Brother in Law to Rushern Baker III has emerged from a closet to try and calm waters. NBC4  Reports that, the Board of education is considering ways to address the issue and protect children from sexual predators after outcry from the community.

After an elementary school choir director was accused earlier this month of filming child pornography inside a school, Prince George’s County Public Schools leaders are reviewing the district’s protocols on reporting abuse.

School board members told News4 on Thursday they want to figure out how Deonte Carraway, 22, was able to videotape and molest as many as 17 students during school hours, according to Prince George’s County police.

“These are our students. We have a duty to keep them safe, and we need to do whatever it takes to make that happen,” Board Member Ed Burroughs said. “That might mean adding teeth and penalties to certain aspects of our policies. I hope there are a coalition of people willing to do that.”

Carraway, of Glenarden, is accused of filming “vile sexual acts” between childrenages 9 to 13 while working as a volunteer school aide and youth choir director at Judge Sylvania Woods Elementary.

According to court documents, the FBI discovered dozens of videos depicting child pornography, some of which appeared to have been recorded in a school restroom. Carraway can be seen in one video molesting a child, according to the documents. In other videos, he can be heard directing the victims.

Police said Carraway victimized children at school, the Zion Praise Tabernacle Lutheran Church, Glenarden Municipal Center, Theresa Banks Memorial Aquatic Center and inside homes.

“Clearly, based on what happened, something failed,” board chairman Segun Eubanks said.

The school district allows volunteers, like Carraway, to be alone with students on school grounds.

“There is not an explicit administrative procedure that I know of that says explicitly that no volunteer can ever be alone with a student,” Eubanks said.

The school board will review that policy, along with its volunteer-hiring procedures, background check policies and protocol for reporting abuse within schools.

In a lawsuit filed against the school district, Principal Michelle Williams was accused of taking no action after the guardian of a 9-year-old boy discovered a sexually explicit photo Carraway allegedly sent the child using the app Kik.

Asked what is the district’s procedure for responding to the report, Eubanks said, “The principal is legally obligated first to report to Child Protective Services and to report to his or her immediate supervisor.”

Nothing criminal was found in Carraway’s background check before he started working for the school in November 2014, officials have said.

However, he did have a juvenile sex offense record, sources told News4.

The background checks are conducted by a private company, officials said.

Parents outside Judge Sylvania Woods Elementary said a review of school policies is a step in the right direction, but only a step.

“A background check is not going to bring out what type of person you are at heart,” one mother said. “That is nothing but paper.”

The board member said he’s hoping administrators will act fast to prevent other students from being victimized.

Read more  NBC4 

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