{"id":9627,"date":"2022-06-12T21:15:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T03:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.parkrag.com\/?p=9627"},"modified":"2022-06-12T21:15:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T03:15:50","slug":"if-the-park-city-school-district-settles-its-child-abuse-cases-its-an-admission-of-failure-for-our-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/12\/if-the-park-city-school-district-settles-its-child-abuse-cases-its-an-admission-of-failure-for-our-children\/","title":{"rendered":"If the Park City School District settles its child abuse cases, it&#8217;s an admission of failure for our children."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three cases of child abuse in Park City have allegedly gone unreported by the Park City School District. This led Margaret Olson, the Summit County Attorney, to file charges against our school district. Reportedly, the number of unreported cases has grown due to the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently we heard from Mark Moffat, Park City&#8217;s Criminal Defense Attorney, that the school district is working on a settlement in the lawsuit. Moffat said to Fox-13 News. &#8220;We\u2019re trying to work on a resolution that will work to the benefit of both parties and serve the interests of justice in this case.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I, both as a parent and someone who wants to be on our school board, care about is how we are going to help the children that were abused and then how we will NEVER let the abuse go unreported again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What I need to hear is that the school district committed no wrong. Only that will provide confidence in the school district.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If the Park City School District settles, I will assume the district did something wrong. If they are found guilty, I will know they did something wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If we are hopeful for our schools, PCSD will fight this and be vindicated. They would prove, in a court of law, that they did nothing wrong and supported our children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The only acceptable outcome of these unfortunate incidents is a non-guilty verdict. We can&#8217;t allow a settlement and then not know whether the school district did anything wrong. It may be the way of lawyers, but it doesn&#8217;t serve our children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m not naive. I&#8217;d guess the PCSD legal counsel has advised the school district to settle. I&#8217;d also guess that Utah&#8217;s laws that can enforce civil penalties on the school district in these types of cases are weighing into this decision. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, what I care about are the kids. To me, a settlement is no different from a guilty verdict. It does nothing to prove that my kids are safer. It also tells me that kids were likely harmed in the past and the school district has responsibility. Settling is CYA. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What we need with regard to the Park City School district is leaders being held accountable for their actions. This should go to trial, and the public should understand exactly what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Josh-Mann-PCSD-Sign-Orange-Curves.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9616\" srcset=\"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Josh-Mann-PCSD-Sign-Orange-Curves.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Josh-Mann-PCSD-Sign-Orange-Curves-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Josh-Mann-PCSD-Sign-Orange-Curves-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Josh-Mann-PCSD-Sign-Orange-Curves-585x293.jpg 585w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three cases of child abuse in Park City have allegedly gone unreported by the Park City School District. This led Margaret Olson, the Summit&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v2.parkrag.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}