(LifeSiteNews) — Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has opened an investigation into recent accusations that two Fairfax County public school employees arranged and funded abortions for two teenage girls without parental consent.
The Republican governor announced on August 13 that he had directed the Virginia State Police to launch a criminal investigation into accusations that Centreville High School social worker, Carolina Diaz, with the full backing of principal Chad Lehman, had scheduled appointments and paid for two minors to abort their unborn children without so much as calling their parents.
Earlier this month, as reported by LifeSiteNews, independent journalist Walter Curt uncovered how one girl, then age 17, underwent an abortion facilitated by Diaz, who swore her to silence. A second teen, five months pregnant at the time, pleaded with the social worker to let her keep her baby and then, after Diaz told her that undergoing an abortion was her ‘only choice,’ fled the clinic.
“I am deeply concerned with the allegations that Fairfax County Public Schools officials arranged for minors to get abortions without parental consent and may have misused public funds to pay for them,” the governor said in the announcement. “I am directing the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation to open a full criminal investigation into the matter immediately.”
I’m deeply concerned with the allegations that Fairfax County Public Schools officials arranged for minors to get abortions without parental consent and may have misused public funds to pay for them. I’m directing the Virginia State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation to open…
— Governor Glenn Youngkin (@GovernorVA) August 13, 2025
Under Virginia law, women under the age of 18 are required to receive parental consent at least 24 hours prior to undergoing an abortion.
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Curt noted that Principal Lehman not only knew but also allowed school funding to be used to pay for the abortions.
“Principal Chad Lehman, the girls insist, knew — and taxpayers footed the bill,” Curt wrote. “If these allegations hold, Fairfax County Public Schools has transformed from educator to clandestine abortion financier — using taxpayer dollars to erase parental rights and strong-arm frightened girls.”
During a podcast discussion released the day after he broke the story, Curt had urged Youngkin and Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares to step up to the plate and investigate these disturbing accusations:
This is when Virginia leadership needs to get involved. Governor Youngkin and Attorney General Mayores, you’re up. If you want to seize the moral high ground going into November, I would say this is the story to do that.
There needs to be investigations, subpoenas, audit every single dollar that moved from Fairfax schools into that so-called health care center. That’s got to happen. If you don’t do that, you’re not going to convince parents that you’re on their side.
And I think that Youngkin knows this because that’s actually how he won the first time. You know, he won in Loudoun County with the scandal going on there with the gender stuff. So I think that they need to get a hold of this, and I think they will.
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“Over the past few years, people have been forced to swallow the critical race doctrine, the male athletes in your daughter’s locker rooms, the pornographic literature in the middle school libraries, and now they want to a silent permission slip … to terminate pregnancies your children never even told you about,” the journalist added. “I mean, that’s horrifying.”
