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   During the 2011-2012 school year, school administrators and staff members   
   allegedly covered up the sexual assault, harassment and rape of a 12-year-old   
   girl, identified in court as “Kate,” at Rachel Carson Middle School in   
   Herndon. It’s been    
   learned that five of them continue to work in Fairfax County Public Schools,   
   even after a disturbing school district response to the alleged assault,   
   including telling the student to “be a big girl” and accusing her of   
   having “a part” in the    
   abuse, according to documents obtained by the Fairfax County Times.   
      
   Typically, the victims of sexual assault are able to maintain their anonymity   
   to protect their safety, but in this case, while arguing at one point to throw   
   the case out because of the former student’s anonymity, lawyers at the law   
   firm of Hunton    
   Andrews Kurth, representing the school district, won the right to have school   
   staffers only identified by their initials in a lawsuit filed by the former   
   student in the U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of Virginia in   
   Alexandria.   
      
   However, a document, docket entry No. 82, filed on Feb 14, 2020, lists the   
   staffers’ names publicly, identifying nine staffers or former staffers of   
   Fairfax County Public Schools as defendants. They include five staff members   
   still working at Fairfax    
   County Public Schools, according to public records: former Rachel Carson   
   Middle School principal August Frattali, now an interim non-school   
   administrator at Luther Jackson Middle School; former Rachel Carson assistant   
   principal Phil Hudson, now an    
   assistant principal at Frost Middle School; assistant principal Sybil Terry,   
   still at Rachel Carson Middle School; school-based technology specialist Megan   
   Carr, still at Rachel Carson Middle School, and former Rachel Carson counselor   
   Joanne Fraundorfer,    
   now a counselor at Franklin Middle School.   
      
   Another three staffers have retired, according to public records: assistant   
   principal Tamara B. Ballou, counselor Brenda Humphrey and teacher Francis   
   Tarrant. One former Rachel Carson Middle School teacher, Monique   
   Patwary-Faruque, is currently employed    
   in Albemarle Public Schools in Charlottesville, according to public records.   
   From 2013 through 2023, according to school district records, the school   
   district has spent $18.1 million with the law firm of Hunton Andrews Kurth on   
   cases including this one.   
      
   While the allegations of negligence by the school system are more than a   
   decade old, the issue is relevant today to local parents because issues of   
   school safety, from chokings to sexual assault, are an issue of great concern,   
   especially as strategies    
   like “restorative justice” and “equity” are used to let students avoid   
   punishment or accountability. What’s more, parents say, they want to know   
   about the allegations against specific staff members still overseeing the   
   safety of children.   
      
   Fairfax County Public Schools spokeswoman Helen Lloyd didn’t return a   
   request for comment. From 2020 through 2023, after the current school board   
   won election in 2019, the school board has approved some $11.4 million in   
   legal fees to Hunton Williams,    
   according to school district records.   
      
      
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