The response to allowing a convicted sex offender to watch high school girls’ soccer games (when his kink is teenage girls) has rightly boiled over. Parents are making administrators and school boards squirm. You knew and didn’t tell us?
We reported yesterday that Hopkinton’s not-so-super Mike Flynn said they couldn’t stop him from attending (which the ASUA confirmed partly, claiming his restrictions allowed it). Wagon circling.
Despite knowing something, none of the assembled safety personnel seems to have been aware of his restrictions. Marc Jaques was never restricted to his vehicle and was in the company of those under 18, possessing an electronic device.
If you were wondering how wrong that was, it got him arrested again and put back in jail without bail.
In response, Betsy Harrington, who has written several articles for us, sent a letter to the Kearsage School Board that has aided and abetted Marc’s violation as an extension of openly defying state law (allowing a boy to play on a girl’s team).
The transgressions taken by Marc Jacques and the Kearsarge school board are a bit unbelievable and quite unforgivable. You started by allowing state law (HB1205) to be violated, you then introduced everything after that blindly. Keeping a logical boundary would have prevented ALL of this. Shame on you for thinking you knew better. So many people are hurt by your decisions. All preventable. You allow the law violation, which then gives the impression to people (like Marc Jacques) who are wanting to break other conditions, that they have the green light to do so.
Marc Jacques did what he wanted and asked for forgiveness later. He clearly did that with his job at Dartmouth. He kept it for 6 months after his plea agreement was accepted. I’m sure everyone thought he was going to leave his job at a school. But yet he didn’t.
Jaques did not notify Dartmouth of his “legal troubles” and continued to appear for work until the school found out by other means and terminated his employment.
This situation with him at the high school and soccer fields was NOT safely planned out either. Don’t say you arranged things so everyone would be safe. You didn’t. The boundaries were simply removed around him and everyone, even the local police participated, all to further the justification of your first boundary violation. If the player is told no, one player is affected and the player can play on a coed team. We have a coed team offered in my town right now. If you decide to violate the law (without any specific injunction for this student) you affect the team players, their families, the community and it becomes national news. YOU did that! Well, really HE did that. This was all ultimately orchestrated by a sick sex offender. Unfortunately, you fell for it. Master manipulator he is. Now we must look back and assess each opportunity he had to offend against our children.
These are excellent points, especially about player participation. If the goal is to ensure girls get to play, Kearsage did maximum damage to that narrative without regard for anyone but themselves.Their actions resulted in fewer girls playing and fewer games played.
My understanding here is that you knew he was a convicted sex offender awaiting the start of his incarceration. You knew he had restrictions around children and you thought that under the right circumstances, you could violate those conditions. Like if you had the police attend home games. His conditions don’t say anything about him attending children’s events without a chaperone. They say “no unsupervised contact with any minor children, other than own children”. Standard practice would be for a sex offending parent/guest to have a trained chaperone and that would be the “supervisor” described in his court document. I’m not sure why everyone thought that he didn’t need any kind of standards or supervision. Who was his assigned “supervisor”? You might say “the police” when he was attending Kearsarge games, but what about the other games?
I’m sure this soccer mom knows the answers. Kearsage, like many school districts, doesn’t think it knows better than the parents they know. HB1205 is a law to be ignored so the safety of girls was never a consideration.
When you show them videos of girls getting harmed or demonstrate how girls and women are losing spots on teams, awards, scholarships, or athletic futures to boys, they look at you over their raised chins – assuming you don’t get the room full of statues treatment – and scoff. It is a paradigm they are unwilling to shift.
There’s no shame, and the introduction of a Minor Attracted Person watching the illegally rostered transgirl isn’t anything you are equipped to understand with their qualified level of nuance. But they didn’t plan on him getting arrested for violating restrictions. Caught with more images. Some of these could be girls on teams, including Kearsage, whose access was made possible when the school chose to break the law by allowing Maelle to play.
If Maelle Jaques can’t play, Marc Jaques is not there doing whatever he did.
Kearsage doesn’t know better, but that’s not a lesson they will learn anywhere but the ballot box.
Here is Betsy’s email to the board.
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