District Hands Investigation of Child Porn Case to Favorite Law Firm

Stung by damning facts, the Charleston County School District has hired an "outside" lawyer to review how it handled the case of a district "employee who was caught with child pornography on his work-issued laptop computer in 2014."

The lamest excuse so far is that there was turnover in personnel when the previous superintendent, she-who-cannot-be-named, left, and present superintendent Postlewait took over. The timeline of events looks bad for everyone. Pesky details have suddenly seen the light of day on Live 5 WCSC.

A district IT specialist discovered the porn in January of 2014.

Next, the district "briefly" placed the employee, a "student concern" specialist, on administrative leave.

Then the district allowed him to resume working at Dunston Elementary in North Charleston. 

Eight months after the original discovery, the district promoted the employee and increased his salary, even though the case was unresolved. He was made a "parent advocate," whatever that means, at Dunston. He continued to work in this new position for over a year.

Fully two years after the IT department's original finding, North Charleston police arrested the employee. The timing of the district's handing the case over to the police is still unclear. 

"After the employee's arrest in January 2016, North Charleston police heard complaints from two children who said he had molested them in his office at the school in 2015. His ’case never went to trial. He died in July 2017 of heart failure." 

Talk about "justice delayed is justice denied"! That's a year and a half after his arrest.

The children's families appear to have been compensated in executive session by the present CCSD Board of Trustees earlier this year.

Heads should roll!