No jail in HS sex attacks

Had riled Va. district

The skirt-wearing Virginia schoolboy who sexually assaulted two classmates, sparking violent protests at school-board meetings, has been sent to a residential treatment facility.

The 15-year-old boy — who is not being identified because he’s a minor — was also placed Wednesday in the sex-offender registry for the rest of his life due to the attacks in two Loudoun County schools last year.

Judge Pamela Brooks said she had never before made such an order in a juvenile case but knew she needed to after reviewing the results of his psychosexual and psychological evaluations.

“Yours scared me,” she told him of the evaluations, without elaborating on what was found.

“I don’t know how else to put it. They scared me for yourself. They scared me for your family. They scared me for society,” the judge admitted.

The boy — who was just 14 at the time of the first attack and wearing an ankle monitor during the second — was also put on probation until he is 18. He wept and hung his head over the table after being sentenced.

The judge said her decision to send the boy to a residential treatment facility rather than juvenile jail was made only after the “very brave and generous” call from victims and their families to get him help.

The victim of his first attack, who was 14 when assaulted in a school bathroom last May, told her abuser, “I could say you belong in a cell . . . I believe you belong in a program.”

The case sparked a political firestorm when Scott Smith, the father of the first victim, was wrestled to the floor and arrested at a fiery school-board meeting in the progressive county. Smith’s arrest was then used as an example of unruly parents.

It also led to numerous calls for top officials to quit or be fired amid claims of a coverup.

The Smiths had described the boy as “gender-fluid.” That was never raised during his trial, although the court was told he was wearing a skirt at the time of the first attack, in a bathroom stall in Stone Bridge High School.