| Janet Joyce Thursday, March 21, 2013 |
One of the biggest problems that face the school system is not from outside threats. While the world worries about gunmen entering into the schools of America, the biggest threat to our children is from the people who we entrust to educate, and protect, our children; the teachers, administrators and principals of each school district. And, without fail, there are those that continue to harm our children through sex.
A Long Island middle school principal has been arrested and charged with having sex with a teenage boy. John O'Mard, 44, the principal at J.W. Dodd Middle School, was charged with four counts of third-degree criminal sexual act. And according to detectives, O'Mard had sex with the boy after meeting him in an online hangout.
After the crime has been made known, he hid from the media after pleading not guilty and being released on bail that was set at $10,000 bond or $5,000 cash.
According to police, O’Mard arranged to meet the 16-year-old boy on Sept. 15, 2012 after the pair met on the gay men’s sex website Grindr. They then arranged a meeting to have sex. The boy turns out to be a former student of O'mard's, but did not know it until they met.
Although the meeting took place in September, the teen only recently told a friend about the encounter, police said. The friend then notified the school, and the school notified police on March 15.
O’Mard was arrested at his home shortly after midnight March 20.
“The police arrested him last night about midnight in his home. He was fully cooperative and surrendered,” said defense attorney Edward Jenks.
After the shooting in the elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut many - and rightly so - were worried about how to better protect our children from this type of evil violence. Many schools in Long Island thought about security issues as a result of the shooting and from Sandy. But, there must also be some way to protect our children from the evil that is already lurking in the halls.
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