Florida school guard had harassed victim, family says

PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — An unarmed security monitor who critics say could have stopped the Florida high school massacre was suspended last year for sexually harassing two female students, with one of them later dying in February’s shooting, her family told The Associated Press on Thursday.

The father and brother of Meadow Pollack say she was one of two girls Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School security monitor Andrew Medina harassed last year. Medina was suspended for three days, even though a disciplinary panel recommended he be fired, a newspaper reported Thursday.

Andrew Pollack and his 20-yearold son, Hunter, said they didn’t learn until after the Feb. 14 shooting that left 17 dead that Meadow and her mother had reported Medina, now 39, to Stoneman Douglas officials. Andrew Pollack said his ex-wife didn’t tell them “because she knew I would have handled it.”

Hunter Pollack said a Broward school investigator gave him the details after the shooting.

“Every day more incompetence gets exposed,” said Andrew Pollack, an outspoken critic of how Broward County school officials and sheriff’s deputies dealt with suspect Nikolas Cruz before the shooting. Medina “should have been fired a long time ago.”

Medina still works for the district but not at Stoneman Douglas.