The monitor who was reassigned over his actions during the Parkland shooting, was recommended to be fired last year after two students, including one of the shooting victims, accused him of sexual harassment.
Instead of firing assistant baseball coach Andrew Medina, 39, over his behavior towards two female students, the Parkland school district decided to suspend him for three days from his duties as a security monitor on campus.
One of the students he harassed was school shooting victim Meadow Pollack, 17, who was gunned down February 14 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, along with 16 other students and faculty.
In February 2017, Medina was accused of asking out one female student and whispering to another: ‘You are fine as f***,’ according to the school’s investigation, reported by the Sun Sentinel.
Unarmed monitor Andrew Medina, pictured in baseball was re-assigned after he told investigators he saw shooter Nikolas Cruz get out of an Uber and head straight to the school. On Thursday it was revealed that in 2017, he had two complaints against him by students, including one of the shooting victims, for sexual harassment
![Meadow Pollack, 17, was gunned down in the school shooting. She had a sexual harassment complaint against Medina in 2017- and her furious father says he wishes he knew then about Medina's alleged behavior, because he would have done more to make sure he wasn't working at the school](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/06/15/02/493EAE1200000578-0-image-m-4_1529024880391.jpg)
Meadow Pollack, 17, was gunned down in the school shooting. She had a sexual harassment complaint against Medina in 2017- and her furious father says he wishes he knew then about Medina’s alleged behavior, because he would have done more to make sure he wasn’t working at the school
‘Both students became so uncomfortable with Mr. Medina’s comments and actions, they sought out different routes to their classes in an attempt to avoid him,’ says the report by the district’s Special Investigative Unit.
Meadow’s father is angry that he only learned about Medina’s behavior towards his daughter after her death.
Her mother had complained to the school on her behalf, but her father says he would have demanded more severe action against the monitor had he known.
‘If this had been brought to my attention back then, he would have never been at the school on Feb. 14,’ her father, Andrew Pollack said to the Sun Sentinel.
He says his wife didn’t tell him ‘because she knew how I would have handled it,’ adding ‘I wouldn’t have just let it go.’
Meadow’s brother, Hunter Pollack, said a Broward school investigator gave him the details after the shooting.
‘Every day more incompetence gets exposed,’ said Andrew, an outspoken critic of how Broward County school officials and sheriff’s deputies dealt with suspect Nikolas Cruz before the shooting. Medina ‘should have been fired a long time ago.’
The school district said in a statement late Thursday that Medina was suspended because he denied the allegations, had no previous disciplinary record and ‘there was no direct evidence to distinguish between the conflicting statements provided by the student and the employee.’
According to the records obtained by the Sun Sentinel, Medina, who is also an assistant baseball coach, asked one girl to go on a date and another said he made lewd comments to her and said he wanted to visit her at work.
Broward County Schools investigators say one of the students’ stories was corroborated by surveillance video of Medina approaching her in a hallway on Feb. 16, 2017.
According to Andrew and Hunter Pollack, Meadow was one of the girls. They said Medina would call Meadow, then 17, ‘beautiful and sweetheart,’ making her uncomfortable.
![Meadow's father, Andrew Pollack was angry that Medina was still allowed to be working at the school, when gunman Cruz killed 17 people, including his daughter](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/06/15/02/4D3FD6C700000578-0-image-a-3_1529024542715.jpg)
Meadow’s father, Andrew Pollack was angry that Medina was still allowed to be working at the school, when gunman Cruz killed 17 people, including his daughter
They say that when her boyfriend confronted Medina, Medina threatened him. Meadow and her mother then reported Medina, they said.
Hunter Pollack said the other girl told him Medina made comments about her body and invited her over to his house for drinks.
‘He’s a bum,’ Hunter Pollack said.
Medina told detectives investigating the shooting that he spotted Cruz entering the school grounds carrying a bag and recognized him as a troubled former student who could be dangerous.
‘We had a meeting about him last year, and we said, ‘If there’s gonna be anybody who’s gonna come to this school and shoot this school up, it’s gonna be that kid,” Medina told investigators shortly after the shooting in a videotaped interview that was made public by prosecutors last week.
Medina didn’t confront Cruz, nor did he call a ‘Code Red,’ which would have triggered an automatic lockdown of classrooms and brought police to the school, because he said he didn’t see a gun. Instead, he radioed another unarmed security monitor, who hid in a closet when the shooting began.
Medina still works for the district but not at Stoneman Douglas.
‘They still won’t fire the guy,’ Andrew Pollack said. ‘There is incompetence everywhere in the Broward schools.’
Attorneys for the 19-year-old Cruz have said he would plead guilty in exchange for a sentence of life without parole. Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty.