We have previously noted how the Central Bucks school district has drawn all sorts of fire from the left as the district pursues a path of excluding sexually-charged materials in school libraries and stated that teachers and staff should not use ‘transgendered’ students’ preferred names and pronouns without the consent of their parents. I have to wonder: did this case help push the school district in its decisions?

A former Central Bucks teacher entered a no-contest plea to molesting and secretly recording his students

Joseph Ohrt, a longtime fixture at schools in the district, touched two of the victims inappropriately during incidents in the 1990s, according to prosecutors.

Joseph Ohrt, via the Bucks County Herald. Click to enlarge.

by Vinny Vella | Thursday, October 13, 2022 | 2:15 PM EDT

A once-prominent teacher in the Central Bucks School District entered a no-contest plea Thursday to molesting two of his former students and secretly recording another one.

Joseph Ohrt, 57, entered the plea to indecent assault, corruption of minors, invasion of privacy and tampering with evidence before Bucks County Court Judge Jeffrey Finley on what was initially scheduled to be the first day in his criminal trial.

Ohrt’s attorney, Matthew Sedacca, declined to comment after the hearing.

For nearly 40 years, Ohrt was a fixture in the Central Bucks district, serving as a music teacher and choral director at various middle, elementary and high schools. He gained recognition beyond the region in 2021, when the pop singer P!nk, who attended Central Bucks West High in her youth, praised him on Twitter and in one of her music videos as an early mentor of hers.

There’s more at the original, including a statement that parents of students had claimed in court filings that Mr Ohrt’s behavior was an “open secret” in the schools, though the Inquirer article did not specify whether the claim was that this was an open secret among students only, or if any teachers or staff were also aware.

Vinny Vella, the article author, was very careful to conceal the sex of the students molested by Mr Ohrt, because that’s just so politically incorrect, but he revealed it in the eighth paragraph:

County prosecutors first began investigating Ohrt in May 2021, when a former student reported that Ohrt had touched him and told him he loved him while he was a senior at Central Bucks West in 2016. After the student graduated, during a choir trip to Kansas City, Ohrt shared a bed with him and put his hand down the teen’s pants, according to the affidavit of probable cause for Ohrt’s arrest.

So, the molestation, the “grooming,” was homosexual in nature. Naturally, I took a screen capture of that paragraph, because I strongly suspect that the story will be subsequently edited to hide that fact. Surely, surely! one of Mr Vella’s editors will notice this, but now that it’s out there, and an [insert slang term for the rectum here] both noticed and documented it, the Inky might have no real choice but to leave it up, because they might figure that, having been noticed and documented, the Inquirer’s bias would be publicly noted . . . again.