How the Lake Stevens School District Turned a Sex Crime into a “Boundary Invasion”... and Paid the Predator to Walk

A J425 commentary on the now-completed Mark Hein matter

In the bureaucratic lexicon of the Lake Stevens School District, the systematic grooming of a 15-year-old girl was rebranded as a “boundary invasion”—a sanitized, bloodless term that suggests a mere procedural oversight.

However, in the criminal affidavits of the Lake Stevens Police Department, those same actions were documented as a predatory sequence …