Nat'l Media Ignores Trans Teacher Convicted in Would-Be Cannibal Murder Plot Against School Kids

By V. Saxena November 1, 2026 at 4:15am

In early October, a would-be transgender cannibal and former substitute teacher was convicted of threatening to kill a bunch of people, including kids.

Yet for some strange, odd reason, the entire national establishment media — save for reliable ol’ Fox News — completely ignored the otherwise bombshell story.

CNN didn’t cover it. Nor did The New York Times. Nor did ABC News, CBS News, PBS News, MS NOW, or NPR. The list goes on and on.

The only ones who covered the lunatic’s conviction were, aside from local media outlets, conservative influencers on social media like Libs of TikTok.

BEEAKING: former Loudoun County Public Schools teacher Hadyn James Dollery, a man pretending to be a woman, convicted of threatening to go on a “murder spree” at a school

These mentally ill gender confused people are ticking time bombs.

They’re a threat to our safety. https://t.co/okQk1dL51i

— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) October 14, 2026

So what gives?

First, let’s backtrack a little and talk about what exactly happened.

Meet Hadyn James Dollery, a 19-year-old former substitute teacher at Eagle Ridge Middle School in Ashburn, Virginia. It’s part of the Loudoun County Public Schools system, which, as previously reported, has a bad track record of dealing with these sorts of matters.

According to Loudoun Now, Dollery purports to be a “transgender woman” named Sophie who goes by the alias “Cotton Candy” on the social media platform Discord.

After the boyfriend of this so-called “transgender woman” broke up with him in April, he responded with extremely foul messages shared via Discord.

Loudoun Now reported that Dollery wrote that “he planned to kill the ex, members of his own and of his ex’s family, go on a ‘murder spree at your school,’ and to cannibalize one of the victims after killing them.”

“Your school” reportedly referred to John Champe High School, which is near Eagle Ridge Middle School.

By the way, notice how, to their credit, Loudoun Now referred to Dollery as “he.”

Dollery also later messaged his ex-boyfriend demanding the ex return a shirt of his “if I’m deemed fit to work after this s*** I’m about to do.”

After receiving the texts, the ex reported them to the police and Eagle Ridge Middle School officials, according to Loudoun Now.

Dollery was subsequently found with a box cutter in his backpack. The police also found Google searches on his phone about “blood.”

During the trial, Dollery’s attorney tried to argue that the whole debacle was nothing more than a “teenage love triangle” and that prosecutors were taking his otherwise clear-cut messages out of context.

The attorney, Mary Swanson, added that her client had never been through a breakup before and was simply “hurt… and desperate for attention.”

According to Loudoun Now, Swanson also argued that Dollery “had no history of violence” and “had never been in trouble” prior to his arrest.

Lastly, the attorney called the whole case “teenage drama” that she ludicrously claimed had been “blown out of proportion.”

While I’m sure the disgustingly left-wing mainstream media would agree, which might explain their decision to completely ignore the story, I for one do not concur with Swanson’s suggestions.

Yes, Dollery is very young, and yes, Dollery is clearly mentally ill — regardless of what the discredited World Health Organization has to say about it. But that doesn’t excuse his threatening to kill and cannibalize children.

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Evidently, however, the national media disagrees.

I wonder if they’d feel similarly if a white supremacist substitute teacher had threatened to kill and cannibalize children. The reaction would probably be different.

Unfortunately, we don’t have a fair, objective, and impartial mainstream media in this country. We instead have a media conglomerate whose interests and agenda align perfectly with those of the Democratic Party.

And it just so happens that the Democratic Party and its media allies have a vested interest in downplaying crimes committed by transgender lunatics.

But it’s not just the national media that’s corrupted. According to Just the News, several local outlets in Virginia have falsely referred to Dollery as a “she.”

That is no coincidence. It’s all part of the left’s narrative.

The good news is that conservative media exists, and thanks to its existence — as well as the existence of firebrand conservative influencers like Libs of TikTok — you, dear reader, now know the truth. You’re welcome.

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V. Saxena is a seasoned conservative news writer and commentator with a decade of experience in the industry. When not at work, he can be found working out or tending to his popular bird feeder.