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FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: Fox News ()
Date: May 04, 2017 11:10PM

http://www.nbcwashington.com/investigations/Teacher-Acquitted-High-Profile-Student-Sex-Assault-Trial-2010-Surrenders-License-420647113.html




A Fairfax County teacher who was acquitted in a high-profile trial of illegally touching a female student has lost his teaching license and is again facing accusations of inappropriate conduct with young girls. Scott MacFarlane reports.


A Fairfax County teacher who was acquitted in a high-profile trial of illegally touching a female student has lost his teaching license and is again facing accusations of inappropriate conduct with young girls.

Sean Lanigan, then a Centre Ridge Elementary School physical education teacher, prevailed at trial in 2010 and participated in media interviews to describe his experience of being a teacher falsely accused of sexual misconduct. Lanigan’s media appearances included a live interview on NBC’s TODAY show in 2011. The gym teacher described and refuted the allegations made by a 12-year-old sixth grade girl and described the negative impact the accusations had on his family.

An investigation by the News4 I-Team reveals Sean Lanigan formally canceled his teaching license in February 2017, after Fairfax County Public Schools sought to have state education officials revoke it. A school district memo, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, includes a new series of allegations of sexually inappropriate conduct against Lanigan in 2014 and 2015, while working as a gym teacher at South Lakes High School in Reston.

The Fairfax County Public Schools memo was written in 2015 and alleged Lanigan inappropriately touched and made sexual comments to some students. “The most egregious and jarring allegation involved Mr. Lanigan running his finger up the inner thigh of a 15-year-old female student,” the memo said. Lanigan denied the accusation, but another student and a colleague of Lanigan’s witnessed the incident, according to the memo.

The memo said Lanigan also was observed by colleagues “holding hands with female students, providing unnecessary physical guidance [grabbing arms, putting an arm around them, leading them away for no obvious reason, hugging a student and tripping a student.]” The memo also said, “Students reported Mr. Lanigan as referring to a female student as his girlfriend, discussing female body parts with male students and engaging in a conversation with a female student about a vibrator.” Lanigan denied the accusations, but other staff and students confirmed witnessing the incidents, according to the memo.

Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh told the I-Team police investigated the allegations at South Lakes High School in 2015, spoke with the families of the students and notified prosecutors. No criminal charges were filed, according to Morrogh and an I-Team review of Fairfax County court records.


“We knew there were some incidents there,” Morrogh said. “We don’t know if we had the specifics, but I know the police were in touch with some of the families.”

Families of students questioned in the school district investigation did not want to pursue a criminal investigation, Morrogh said. He said he felt, “It would be very difficult to ask a child to come forward after what happened to the first (student).”
Lanigan declined a request for an interview with the I-Team.

“I was found not guilty in 2010 of the charges brought against me with good reason -- there was absolutely no truth in any of it,” Lanigan said in a written statement. “The girl making the accusations had the opportunity to testify, and her testimony was found not at all credible; in fact, the jury took only 47 minutes to come back with their unanimous verdict of not guilty. All of this is detailed in numerous articles in the Washington Post. Furthermore, I have 18 years of experience teaching and I have never inappropriately touched a student. However, after the trial, when I returned to teaching, tension remained between the school system and me and, after five years, although I still enjoyed teaching, I decided to move on with my life and surrendered my teaching license.”

The school district memo found earlier allegations of misconduct by Lanigan that predated his 2010 trial and acquittal. “In May 2007, Mr. Lanigan received a reprimand for poor judgment and unprofessional behavior when he made other staff uncomfortable during a ‘Secret Santa’ gift exchange,” the memo said. “At that time, Mr. Lanigan gave another employee a large box of chocolates, a $75 gift certificate, a ‘pornament’ that depicted two reindeer having sex and two magazines that were interspersed with pictures of nude men and women.” According to a 2012 Washington Post article about Lanigan’s case, he characterized the ornament as a joke gift for a “Secret Santa” exchange. According to the Washington Post report, Lanigan said the teacher to whom he gave the “pornament” did not object.

A former Lanigan student, speaking with the I-Team under condition of anonymity, alleged a series of inappropriate comments and physical touching by Lanigan in the late 1990s.

The former student said her mother filed a formal complaint with Lanigan’s principal in 1997 and asked the school remove her daughter from Lanigan’s class. She said Lanigan had also made an offensive comment during gym class on her birthday.

“(Lanigan) said I should run the mile in my birthday suit,” she said.

“That’s a very sexual comment,” she added. “It’s too much. It’s way too much.”
Lanigan did not specifically address these earlier allegations, but in a 2012 article in the Washington Post, he described such an exchange with a student. He told the Washington Post the girl went to class without her gym uniform. He characterized the exchange about a “birthday suit” as a joke.

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Date: May 04, 2017 11:13PM


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Date: May 04, 2017 11:16PM


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Date: May 04, 2017 11:18PM


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Date: May 04, 2017 11:19PM


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Date: May 04, 2017 11:21PM


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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: county mom ()
Date: May 05, 2017 09:53AM

I knew from the beginning he was a pedo. They guy is lucky he is not in prison.

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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: Space Ghost ()
Date: May 05, 2017 10:25AM

That really wasn't necessary to post 20 posts worth of screenshots. Ain't nobody got time for that. A summary and some links would have sufficed.

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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
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Date: May 05, 2017 10:33AM

Space Ghost Wrote:
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> That really wasn't necessary to post 20 posts
> worth of screenshots. Ain't nobody got time for
> that. A summary and some links would have
> sufficed.


The truth must be made known

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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: causeican ()
Date: May 05, 2017 06:40PM

That guy doesn’t believe he did anything wrong. He should not work around young middle-school girls. He doesn’t know how to act. There are a lot of men like this.

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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: causeican ()
Date: May 05, 2017 06:42PM

What I don’t understand is why there is no one investigating the story of what the father(s) of the girl(s) did about it.

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Date: May 05, 2017 06:59PM

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> What I don’t understand is why there is no one
> investigating the story of what the father(s) of
> the girl(s) did about it.


Why is that relevant?

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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: BanThemAll ()
Date: May 07, 2017 06:57AM

Build the damn wall already to keep these monsters out!!!!!!

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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: tax payy eerr ()
Date: May 21, 2017 03:33PM

Lanigan was guilty the whole time! The county should get the money back from this pervert teacher. We paid for his legal fees only to find out that he is in fact a pervert.

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Date: May 21, 2017 04:10PM

tax payy eerr Wrote:
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> Lanigan was guilty the whole time! The county
> should get the money back from this pervert
> teacher. We paid for his legal fees only to find
> out that he is in fact a pervert.


Tax payers paid for the legal fees because police detective botched the investigation from the start!

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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: QHAA ()
Date: July 15, 2017 01:11AM

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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: PJKPV ()
Date: July 15, 2017 05:44AM

All the legal Mumbo-jumbo back and forth to get 1 signature on 1 properly worded paragraph (Dec'15-Feb'17) and then fcps offers to undue what they just spent all that time and money to accomplish.

Bureaucrats!!!! Make me want to scream and run around in circles trying to pull my hair out.

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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: tmbm7 ()
Date: July 16, 2017 01:33PM


a license to threaten children with police action, force them on pills, give hispanics unreal grades, and preach diversity and obama corrupted hitoric facts?

you can stuff your license up your ass


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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: dpevt<h2 style="background-color ()
Date: July 16, 2017 01:36PM



corrupt counties everywhere are suing their own employees, legal people make money hand over fist, then awarding the sued employee - totally fucking the teen taxpayer up the ass and standing her up the next day

LOUDOUN SUED A ASIAN TEACHER hardly speek engrish, he got awarded $150.000, and tenure from being fired "for minor reasons" - and the county lawyers made off like bandits


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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: 000887234323 ()
Date: July 16, 2017 05:51PM

What an embarrassment. FCPS should have canned him long ago.

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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: county custodian ()
Date: November 25, 2018 10:41AM

Lanigan fooled plenty of people. What a perv!

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Date: May 19, 2019 08:07PM

county custodian Wrote:
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> Lanigan fooled plenty of people. What a perv!


I knew he was a perv the whole time. No one would listen to me.

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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: WRONGI ()
Date: July 05, 2020 10:19PM

HE SUCKS

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Re: FCPS Gym Teacher Acquitted at High-Profile Student Sex Assault Trial in 2010 has Surrendered his License in Fairfax County
Posted by: wondering why... ()
Date: July 06, 2020 07:03AM

Is there some reason you are reviving all of these Lanigan posts?

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