SYSTEM BROKEN: 181 K-12 Teachers Charged With Sex Crimes By Q2 Of 2022

Jul 26, 20221 min read

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181 K-12 educators, including four principals, were arrested for child sex-related crimes in the U.S. in the first six months of 2022. Crimes range from child pornography to raping students.

140 of the arrests, or 77%, involved alleged sex crimes against students. The Department of Education last released a report on the topic in 2004, which claimed that nearly 9.6% of students are targets of educator sexual misconduct sometime during their school career.

Christopher Rufo, a senior from the Manhattan Institute, called for a new national study on child sex abuse in schools.

"This is a scandal that the political Left is doing everything in its power to suppress," he said in a statement to the media. "The basic fact is incontrovertible: every day, a public school teacher is arrested, indicted, or convicted for child sex abuse. And yet, the teacher's unions, the public school bureaucracies, and the left-wing media pretend that the abuse isn't happening and viciously attack families who raise concerns."

Many of the arrests involved especially heinous allegations. 181 have been arrested between January 1 and June 30, which works out to exactly an arrest a day on average.