A junior high school teacher and basketball coach from Boise, Idaho was arrested Monday on suspicion of raping a minor he once taught. Eric McDermott, 59, was accused of rape and sexual battery by lewd or lascivious actions on a child aged 16 to 17.
McDermott is currently being detained at the Ada County Jail on a bail amounting to $1 million. A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for April 27 at the Ada County Courthouse at 8:30 a.m., according to The Post Millennial.
According to reports, McDermott allegedly contacted his victim on a “dating hookup site” in 2020, where he allegedly sent his victim nude photos. McDermott then allegedly communicated with the teenage victim over several days, arranged a meeting, and then brought the teen to his home where McDermott allegedly raped him.
In response to his arrest notification from the Boise Police Department, the Boise School District placed McDermott on leave immediately, as stated in a letter to parents by the district’s spokesperson, Dan Hollar.
Following the news of McDermott’s arrest, The Boise School District immediately placed him on leave, according to a letter to parents by district spokesperson, Dan Hollar.
The Idaho Tribune looked into McDermott’s background following his arrest and uncovered his active involvement in the LGBT community. McDermott had volunteered with the Pride Foundation’s Idaho Leadership Action Team. He also openly discussed “youth outreach” on his own social media accounts and frequently attended drag shows and pride events throughout the state to recruit “volunteers” as young as sixteen.
McDermott also promoted sexually explicit literature aimed at teens in an online forum called Goodreads. He had made copies of the book series available for his junior high school students to borrow, even though he admitted the material was “probably a bit more mature for this group’s target audience overall.”
The establishment media in Idaho has conveniently left out the fact that McDermott was an LGBT Youth Outreach activist, and gave pornographic books to freshmen students in his class.
More from The Idaho Tribune about the establishment media coverup of these details:
So, the question remains: Why has all of the coverage from KTVB, the Idaho Statesman and other establishment media outlets deliberately ignored the fact that McDermott was an LGBT Youth Outreach activist, and giving pornographic books to freshmen in his class?
The answer is simple.
And it’s the same reason why the Idaho Establishment Press outlets have not followed up Dustin Kisner, a former teacher at Black Canyon Alternative High School who pled guilty to engaging in lewd conduct with a child under the age of 16 and one charge of enticing a child through the internet.
In this case, the victim was also a student.
KTVB’s report also neglected to tie the new McDermott case to a previous case of sexual abuse by a social worker at the exact same high school.
In that case, the accused abuser, committed suicide before the case went to trial.
All in all there have been at least 6 documented instances of teachers engaging in illegal sexual relationships with their students in Idaho’s public schools, what we don’t know is how many of them, like McDermott, were LGBT Groomers.
This problem is systemic, and must be addressed.
Homosexuals, “transgenders,” and frankly ANY overt sexual deviants should be barred from working with minors. Full stop.
Idaho needs to put the safety of children first, before worrying about some LGBTQIA+ weirdo having his/her/they/them’s feelings hurt. This used to be common sense.
