To understand the context & power of Patti Bacchus' Twitter comment should make a person BARF ! Ms Bacchus who is a very powerful representative & spokesperson of the BC public school system, who many look up to & take direction from, has gone out of her way to call Ken Clement (who is charged with a very serious crime against children) her "friend". Ms Bacchus is crafty with her words & says she is  "shocked & devastated to hear the news". Most persons outside the school system would condemn such an alleged crime & not stand beside Mr Clement publicly by calling him a "friend". Many would phrase this alleged crime against children as disgusting & show concern for "the children" who are forced to have sex with teachers & school trustees... This is NOT the first time Ms Bacchus has stood beside a questionable man in the BC school system & even went so far as to ignore the parent's plea for help while spreading false rumors on Twitter designed to unfairly attack the parent who reported a school principal's abuses in her district when she was a trustee with Ken Clement. There is a very sick culture in the BC public school system of protecting their own "friends" while attacking whistle-blowers & it goes all the way up to the corrupted BC Ministry of Education(TRB used to be called the Teacher's College until dysfunction was exposed in Supreme Court & a child porn scandal forced the re-branding to TRB). Click here & here & here & more information on this subject to follow....