The Girls, Part 2: ‘This isn’t ringing alarms to y’all?’

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4.6 • 954 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Over the years, two girls and one young woman report Ronnie Stoner for sexual misconduct and rape in a public middle school and high school. But Child Protective Services declines to investigate, and the school district, Jefferson County Public Schools, continues to promote him.Hearing stories like this one can bring up painful feelings and memories, especially if you're a trauma survivor yourself. If you need to talk, you can reach the RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline at 800-656-HOPE, or visit RAINN.org and click get help now for free, 24/7 support. If you’re experiencing a mental health crisis, call or text 988.Learn more about preventing sexual misconduct and abuse by K-12 school employees (PDF)If you have information about this case, or you think there’s something we should know that we haven’t reported here, please contact Jess Clark at [email protected] or 502-814-6541.Our work is community funded. To help us keep digging, visit kydig.org and click donate.

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0:00.0	from LPM, Louisville Public Media.
0:04.3	Support for this podcast comes from LG&E,
0:07.7	with a reminder that the warning signs of a gas leak
0:10.0	are the smell of rotten eggs,
0:12.0	dead plants near healthy plants,
0:13.8	or a hissing sound.
0:15.5	Leave immediately and call 911.
0:18.3	More gas safety tips at LGE-kU.com slash gas safety. A listener note, this story contains
0:26.1	accounts of child sex abuse. It's August 2022, days before the start of the school year for
0:33.3	Jefferson County Public Schools. And to get staff pumped up, JCPS is holding an administrator
0:39.1	kickoff, a back-to-school celebration at the city's historic Brown Theater downtown.
0:45.3	JCPS Superintendent Marty Polio takes the stage and calls on staff to be, quote, braver leaders
0:51.9	than you've ever been. Later, the Jefferson County Association of
0:56.3	School Administrators hands out awards, selected by members through a vote. Polio huddles up for a photo
1:02.8	with a muscular man in a light gray suit, 2022's Middle School Youth Service Center coordinator of
1:08.8	the year. They smile for the camera under their COVID-era face masks.
1:14.1	The school year would start days later.
1:15.9	But what no one said during the speeches and ceremony was that the man in the light gray suit
1:21.7	wouldn't be returning to school with everyone else.
1:26.5	Ronnie Stoner,
1:31.5	2022 Middle School Youth Service Center coordinator of the year,
1:35.3	would report on the first day to a building miles away from the hallways and classrooms of Newburgh Middle.
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