Case Involving ‘Whistleblower’ Parents Is Heading for Trial

March 30, 2001

The homosexual teacher who is suing the parents who taped Fistgate last year is trying to conceal what occurred at that scandal. 

Her lawyers say they are planning to ask the judge for a Protective Order to stop the parents from questioning the teacher, Julie Netherland, about what she and others taught the students. The tape recording of her workshop, which was made by the parents, showed that she and others taught about “fisting,” oral sex and other sexual acts.

The attorney for the parents, Chester Darling, replied in a letter that he was in receipt of their “astonishing letter” in which they “threaten” to seek a Protective Order.

Darling said he could understand their desire to hide the facts.

“In my opinion, your client was involved in the commission of a crime, the dissemination of harmful material to minor children,” he wrote.

Darling has made it clear that he intends to argue before the court that his clients had a duty under the law to report this crime to the authorities.

He cited a U.S. Supreme Court case which states that the failure to report criminal behavior “remains a badge of irresponsible citizenship.”

Darling also made a pointed reference to the fact that the lawyers for the plaintiff are receiving a portion of their salaries and other money from the Commonwealth and other public sources. This occurs because they are employees of GLAD (Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders) which is a “poverty lawyer” organization which receives money from the Supreme Judicial Court and others.

In his original letter to Atty. Darling, the lawyer from GLAD, Bennett Klein, wrote that, “It is my position that questions relating to the content or subject matter of the workshop, the educational or pedagogical methods underlying the workshop, or the reasons that the workshop was structured and conducted as it was, are not reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence.”