In a shocking exposé by independent journalist Walter Curt published on August 5, Fairfax County School District (FCSD) faculty were accused of arranging, bankrolling, and covering up abortions for two underage students in 2021 without notifying their parents.
A former Centreville High School ESOL student told her story in a handwritten letter, translated to English:
Last year I went to see social worker Carolina Diaz. She helped me with the termination of my pregnancy—that is, an abortion. Mrs. Carolina Diaz scheduled the appointment for me at the abortion clinic in Fairfax, paid the costs of that medical procedure, and kept everything quiet without informing my family. I feared my family would react badly if they found out about my pregnancy and the abortion.
When the abortion was performed, I was only 17 years old.
This testimony alone is a serious criminal allegation meriting a diligent investigation. If proven true, Fairfax County’s social worker on staff violated Virginia state parental notification laws while misusing Virginia taxpayer dollars to illegally cover an abortion for a minor.
A second Centreville High School student testified against the same Fairfax social worker. Scared, alone, and five months pregnant, she sought help from Mrs. Carolina Diaz, only to be told she had “no other choice” than abortion. Diaz allegedly scheduled the abortion without the underage girl’s consent, and just before her appointment, the girl escaped and ran away from the clinic.
Shortly after her escape, the girl went to a trusted teacher, Mrs. Zenaida Perez, who has chosen to remain publicly named in support of her student. Mrs. Perez said, “That girl never wanted that abortion, and her family was never told.” Since speaking up, Mrs. Perez has faced significant harassment from school administrators.
Both girls say that social worker Carolina Diaz was not acting alone; both testified that Centreville Principal Chad Lehman green-lighted the abortions and looked the other way. The school’s finance department is also allegedly complicit in facilitating the financing of the clandestine abortions from school-designated taxpayer funds—someone had to write the checks to cover the abortions.
In response to these allegations, the district made an underwhelming statement: “We learned yesterday [Tuesday] of these concerning allegations from 2021. We are launching an immediate and comprehensive investigation as we take all concerns of student wellbeing very seriously.”
Although FCSD opened an official investigation shortly after the allegations surfaced, the district should not be trusted to perform an impartial investigation given the allegations made against its faculty and staff. Just a day after these horrifying accusations went public, Concerned Women for America (CWA) CEO and President Penny Nance called on Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares to open a state investigation.
Another question raised in this developing case is whether the Fairfax Healthcare Center violated Virginia state law, too. State law requires all Virginia abortion providers to verify parental notifications twenty-four hours before a minor’s abortion appointment. No such verification occurred with these two girls. As such, Fairfax Healthcare Center must be investigated alongside Fairfax County School District by state authorities.
All in all, the Fairfax County case raises countless red flags. First, if an abortion clinic refuses to take the utmost diligence when performing abortions on minors, what other laws are they willing to violate? And second, how many other underage girls are victims of secret abortions at Fairfax Healthcare Center?
Curt concluded his exposé with a chilling inquiry:
If two frightened teenagers can describe the same counselor, the same locked-door clinic, and the same hush-money trail, common sense says Centreville is nursing a deeper wound. How many daughters have already been shuttled through that bolted entrance on the taxpayers’ dime, their parents left out of the conversation until it was too late?
Please join Concerned Women for America in prayer for these two girls (and the perhaps countless others) harmed by Fairfax County School District, that their stories would be agents for change, truth, and justice. Abortion is not compassionate; it is not healthcare, and, as made clear in this case, it is also not the “choice” that culture paints it out to be. Fairfax County School District and Fairfax Healthcare Center must be held accountable.
