Prosecutor: Teachers Would Not Help Investigate Predator Who Molested Boy

Posted on | January 27, 2014 | 63 Comments

Matthew LoMaglio, 37, pleaded guilty to molesting an 8-year-old boy who was a student at the elementary school in Rochester, N.Y., where LoMaglio taught gym classes. On Jan. 14, LoMaglio was sentenced to four years in prison, but the prosecutor said many of the criminal’s colleagues did not cooperate with the investigation:

Many in the community were also surprised and disappointed that more than 20 educators wrote to the court in the pre-sentencing phase, expressing support for LoMagio but little or no sympathy for the young victim.
“Some of the people (on the school staff) who were cooperative told us there was talk at school, sort of like ‘Are you for the teacher or for the student,’” Kyle Rossi, the assistant district attorney who tried the case against LoMaglio, told EAGnews. “It was very disappointing to make contact with teachers who wouldn’t give us the time of day until they were instructed to.” . . .
But building a case against LoMaglio was not easy, because a significant number of teachers and other school employees who had worked with the gym teacher over the years refused to cooperate with police and prosecutors during the investigation, Rossi said.
“I would say that many teachers and administrators at several schools where this guy had taught wouldn’t talk to us at all,” Rossi said. “We ran into cold shoulders all the way around. They would say things like ‘nothing happened here’ and ‘I don’t know anything, I don’t want to talk about anything.
“One person even told a police investigator ‘don’t call me again.’ Some were even rude.” . . .
“It was problematic for us. No one was volunteering to help. There were people who complied – they were cooperative because it was a police investigation – but nobody was excited to participate. There were teachers who simply refused to speak to us.”
Rossi said he was also troubled by the 22 letters the court received from various teachers, expressing support for LoMaglio. He said he is not authorized to turn over the letters to the public or divulge the names of the teachers who wrote them.
Some of the letters were written on school district letterhead. . . .
“These are people entrusted to work with children and they show no compassion for this kid.”

If this pattern sounds familiar, remember how the Michigan teachers union sided with convicted molester Neal Erickson. Besides, people who are against male teachers having sex with young boys are obviously just a bunch of right-wing homophobic bigots.

Category: Crime, Education, Gays, Sex

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63 Responses to “Prosecutor: Teachers Would Not Help Investigate Predator Who Molested Boy”

Bozikek
January 27th, 2014 @ 1:49 pm

If we would only let teachers gay marry underage boys this would never happen.

When will people learn?
Dianna Deeley
January 27th, 2014 @ 1:49 pm

I don’t understand this. It’s revolting.

The thought did crop up – is this man threatening people? Are they scared of him? That would make them merely foolish and weak, but would render this comprehensible.

Otherwise? No. It’s simply impossible to fathom this behavior.
Bozikek
January 27th, 2014 @ 1:51 pm

Kinda like the blue wall of silence except for teachers.
Socialism: Organized Evil
January 27th, 2014 @ 1:55 pm

You’d have to double check this, but I’ve read reports that – in the Slavik languages – the word for “homosexual” is the same word as the word for “pedophile”.
Dianna Deeley
January 27th, 2014 @ 2:07 pm

Not in Russian. Nor in Polish.
Rosalie
January 27th, 2014 @ 2:07 pm

I cannot fathom a teacher supporting a scumbag like him. What is wrong with them? I would have my kid out of that school pronto. Their names should be made public because they’re actually promoting behavior like this by supporting him.
Socialism: Organized Evil
January 27th, 2014 @ 2:08 pm

I don’t remember the source exactly, but it seemed to refer more to Serbia and that region.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
January 27th, 2014 @ 2:14 pm

http://batshitcrazynews.com/2014/01/why-teachers-unions-are-bat-shit-crazy-porn-watching-middle-school-teacher-watching-porn-at-school-reinstated-with-back-pay/ Here is anothyer case of a teacher’s union fighting a four year battle to keep a porn watching teacher in the classroom…and winning! Back pay to boot.
Dianna Deeley
January 27th, 2014 @ 2:17 pm

Your source is wrong, sorry. I tried both Cyrillic and Roman alphabet, and I’m not seeing congruence. (Serbs write in Cyrillic, Croatians in Roman; Estonians, Latts and Lithuanians in Roman, so on and so forth.)

If you want me to check slang, I’d need to know what words you would use. My Russian is rather more formal, and limited.
Zohydro
January 27th, 2014 @ 2:28 pm

The Estonians speak Elvish—like the Finns…
Zohydro
January 27th, 2014 @ 2:33 pm

The concept (and the relevant terminology) of “homosexuality”, “gay”, etc. is a modern development… Historically, there was no distinction because there is no distinction!
Zohydro
January 27th, 2014 @ 2:37 pm

SSDD
Socialism: Organized Evil
January 27th, 2014 @ 2:52 pm

I understand that. I’m interested in this Slavic word for homosexuals and pedophiles because of the obvious connection that we see in our own society.

At least by anecdotal news reports that we see here, most male pedophiles seem to be homosexuals as well.

The Slavic word for homosexual/pedophile would lend credence to the observation that homosexuality and pedophila tend to go hand-in-hand.
Zohydro
January 27th, 2014 @ 2:57 pm

The ancients certainly made no distinction! And this appears to be across cultures…
M. Thompson
January 27th, 2014 @ 2:59 pm

Yep. I’m thinking of Obstruction of Justice for all of them.
Zohydro
January 27th, 2014 @ 3:11 pm

I agree with you… And I’m having way too much fun translating and back-translating various related PC and slang terms on GoOgle Translate right now!
concern00
January 27th, 2014 @ 3:26 pm

I’m less inclined to make a strict link between homosexuality and pedophilia, simply on the basis of definition. Pedophilia implies pre-pubescent.

I have no such qualms linked homosexuality to pederasty, since they are inextricably intertwined. As an ex-practicing homosexual Robert Oscar Lopez makes a pretty convincing case. He is somewhat graphic in his text…

http://englishmanif.blogspot.com.au/2014/01/pedophilia-pederasty-boys-twinks-and.html
Dana
January 27th, 2014 @ 3:28 pm

You can’t? They were his friends, his colleagues, people who liked him and couldn’t believe anything like that about him. And we see it over and over and over again, from Catholic officials who moved around pedophile priests to the officials at Penn State who just couldn’t comprehend that a great guy like Jerry Sandusky, pillar of the community, was sodomizing little boys. In some ways, it’s similar to the will not to believe.

Child abusers all look like creeps, can all be spotted out in the open by anyone; they aren’t the good guys we work with every day, the friends we had over for a back yard barbeque.
Dana
January 27th, 2014 @ 3:31 pm

Rossi said he was also troubled by the 22 letters the court received from various teachers, expressing support for LoMaglio. He said he is not authorized to turn over the letters to the public or divulge the names of the teachers who wrote them.

Sounds like it’s time for a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Since that probably wouldn’t work, what it’s really time for is an intrepid shoe-leather reporter to do some digging and find someone in the right office who will copy those things and release them.
Zohydro
January 27th, 2014 @ 3:44 pm

“?????”?
Dana
January 27th, 2014 @ 3:57 pm

Some of the letters were written on school district letterhead. . . .

Wouldn’t that make them public documents?
Dianna Deeley
January 27th, 2014 @ 4:04 pm

I love hearing people try to say, “Finno-Urghukh language group” without getting a very peculiar look on their faces.
Dianna Deeley
January 27th, 2014 @ 4:07 pm

I have no idea. Interesting question: why did he mention that?
Rosalie
January 27th, 2014 @ 4:08 pm

With the priests and Sandusky, they could comprehend but covered it up. I think those teachers are trying to do the same thing
Rosalie
January 27th, 2014 @ 4:10 pm

“intrepid shoe-leather reporter”
Sounds like McCain.
texlovera
January 27th, 2014 @ 4:11 pm

Kind of letting the media know in a back-handed way that they could FOIA the letters from the school districts?
texlovera
January 27th, 2014 @ 4:13 pm

Elvish is everywhere…
texlovera
January 27th, 2014 @ 4:14 pm

Freak.
Dianna Deeley
January 27th, 2014 @ 4:16 pm

I don’t think that would work, somehow, unless the letter-writers filed a copy with the school district, and how likely is that?
Dianna Deeley
January 27th, 2014 @ 4:17 pm

No, Elvish has left the building.
Shawny1
January 27th, 2014 @ 4:47 pm

The case is likely sealed because the victim is a minor, but the parents of the boy should have copies and if it were me those letters would be front page news.
Escher's House
January 27th, 2014 @ 4:53 pm

It is now child abuse, neglect and endangerment for any parent to entrust a child to the public schools.
Evi L. Bloggerlady
January 27th, 2014 @ 5:04 pm

Of course, Richard Chamberlain was acting in that scene…
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Adjoran
January 27th, 2014 @ 5:50 pm

Using school district property to influence a court case? Unless it is specifically excluded by the state’s law, those letters should be subject to FOIA.
Adjoran
January 27th, 2014 @ 5:53 pm

A number of years ago, the newly-elected President of the AFT, the second largest teachers’ union, was asked at their convention how his proposed actions would impact students and education. He answered, “I don’t know, it’s not my job. Students don’t pay dues. I work for the teachers.”

In government-controlled schools with entrenched unions, such attitudes are inevitable.

It resembles the attitudes of the federal bureaucracy towards citizens.
Mike G.
January 27th, 2014 @ 6:17 pm

Caught this one the other day. http://thatmrgguy.wordpress.com/2014/01/25/perverts-in-the-news-7/

Instapundit had it Saturday.
Dana
January 27th, 2014 @ 6:33 pm

You know, I really don’t think that the Penn State officials really appreciated what was going on, because they didn’t want to appreciate it. These were all educated men, and they confided in the University’s counsel — that’s one of the current issues, whether their conversations with the University’s counsel were privileged — and if any of them had really understood what was going on, someone would have simply said, “Wait, stop, this has to be reported to law enforcement, period, or we are all liable.”

That doesn’t excuse them, but I sort of understand them.
Zohydro
January 27th, 2014 @ 6:42 pm

Are you sure? Could it possibly be that a grown man on campus engaging in homosexual behaviour with boys was just something not all that unusual—that it never even occurred to any of them this was wrong, let alone a crime?
Zohydro
January 27th, 2014 @ 6:49 pm

Common Core indoctrination is enough itself already, even without pederast teachers!
Rosalie
January 27th, 2014 @ 6:50 pm

There was an article in our local newspaper when Sandusky was arrested for something that happened, I believe, in Jersey Shore. And this was several years before all hell broke loose. And the trustees try to act so innocent. And whatever happened to the attorney who was working on the case? He’s never been found.
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Zohydro
January 27th, 2014 @ 7:26 pm

Great link… I hadn’t seen that one before!
jfmoris110
January 27th, 2014 @ 7:45 pm

Collectivists gang up. It’s the nature of thugs & bullies to threaten & harm – not just physically.

Surely we’ve all had the experience of having leftists “out” us as conservatives? And the increase in hostility and problems of every sort that results?

And unions prove their worth by keeping worthless people employed for excessive wages. If only good workers were hired for the wages determined by the free market, the unions would have no jobs.
Dana
January 27th, 2014 @ 8:40 pm

Mr Sandusky was investigated for this in 1998, but the District Attorney declined to file charges, because the supposed victim wasn’t credible enough to build a strong case around.
Dana
January 27th, 2014 @ 8:41 pm

Supposedly, they considered reporting, but after Joe Paterno was asked about it, the officials decided to handle this in house.
Rosalie
January 27th, 2014 @ 9:00 pm

The incident I’m referring to happened about four years ago.
Zohydro
January 27th, 2014 @ 9:15 pm

Riiiiight… And the kids were “gay” anyway…
ChrisDavis2011
January 27th, 2014 @ 9:41 pm

People will learn when they experience consequences for their actions.

I will help underwrite the open record requests to get copies of the 22 letters written to the court. Those are public records and are subject to disclosure by the court.

We then send copies of the letters to every house on each block where the author lives so everyone on their street understands they live near someone who supports a pedophile.

I guarantee you from personal experience that block parties will never be the same once those letters land and evil is exposed.

A regular guy once said, “All that is necessary for evil to exist is darkness and willing co-conspirators….,”

Anyone want to help shine some light and expose some co-conspirators?