Over the past few months, we received communications from credible sources providing insight on the Miguel Velasquez Velasco case; the Spotsylvania County Schools bus aide charged with 11 counts of child sexual assault. Below is a screenshot of an email we received. We redacted much of this email so that we do not reveal the source. This email confirmed as early as November 2024 that he does not speak English. That explains why he needed an interpreter in court today.

During public comment at the 1/13/2025 school board meeting, speaker Roy Searles read the excerpt from this email during public comment. We shared that video in an earlier article.

Velasquez Velasco was arrested in September 2024, and we are almost into February 2025. The 1/15/2025 court hearing was a competency hearing. Yet, the test results have not come back so another competency hearing needs to be scheduled. This raises some interesting questions.

• Why is the legal process moving very slowly on these serious crimes?
• Since he does not speak English, is he illegal?
• If he is illegal, is this the reason why Spotsylvania County Schools has been very quiet on this?
• Since he was hired by Spotsylvania County Schools and assumed to be competent at the time of his hiring, why is there now a question about his competency?