The Cincinnati Enquirer’s All-Star Contributor Calls Your Neighbors Pedophiles
Darbi Boddy has been smearing local businesses, students, and teachers on the Enquirer’s platform for years. The paper won’t lift a finger to stop her.
You can’t call a local business a breeding ground for pedophiles with no evidence and get it published in the Cincinnati Enquirer. But post it on the Enquirer’s “Greater Cincinnati Politics” Facebook group, and you’re in business.
For years, Darbi Boddy has treated the Enquirer’s Facebook group as her personal attack page. These aren’t comments buried in a thread; they’re top-level posts with the same prominence as anything the Enquirer posts itself.
Boddy was elected to the Lakota Local School Board (a large suburban district in Butler County, just north of Cincinnati) in 2021. What followed was less a political tenure than a sustained public meltdown.
Within months, she was censured by the board after posting a link to a porn site on her public Facebook page while railing against sexual content in schools. She was issued a trespassing notice for wandering into school buildings uninvited, where security cameras caught her photographing students without permission.
She compared a student suicide prevention program to “the Nazi Handbook.”
She accused the district superintendent of sexual misconduct with zero evidence, driving him to resign. And she harassed a fellow board member so relentlessly that he obtained a civil stalking protection order requiring her to stay 500 feet away from him at all times.
Unable to attend meetings because she literally could not be in the same room as a colleague she’d terrorized, she was removed from the board in March 2024. This is the person the Enquirer has decided deserves an unmoderated megaphone.
In April, Boddy posted a “Potential pedophile Alert!!” about a small, local coffee shop, Coterie Lounge & Cafe, describing it as “a breeding ground for potential pedophiles,” for the high crime of hosting a Drag Queen Story Hour.
She urged readers to “Tag every parent you know” and “Share this far and wide”. No evidence. No basis. Just potentially defamatory and dangerous accusations published under the Enquirer’s banner.
Potential pedophile Alert!!
Just saw this pop up in our neighborhood and I’m honestly sick to my stomach.
Coterie Lounge & Cafe is hosting a “Drag Queen Story Hour” for little kids on April 16th. Absolutely disgusting and it has NO business happening here…
If you search Boddy’s name on the Greater Cincinnati Politics page, it’s a cesspool of unfounded accusations and personal attacks.
In just the past month, she’s used the Enquirer’s platform to go after:
Several Ohio school systems for “sexualizing our students,” which she ties, without evidence, to a few things, including suicide prevention programs.
A Republican candidate for the Ohio House over her “obsessive focus on ‘mental health’ in public education…”
A new superintendent in a local school system, who she claims “sees every kid through the lens of skin color instead of character, merit, or actual learning.”
A local school district for “influencing children’s minds” by allowing a “Hate Has No Home Here” poster in a classroom.
Go back further and you see more of the same: targeting politicians, businesses, educators, and student groups.
She hasn’t stopped targeting Coterie.
In the weeks since, Boddy also targeted West Chester Township Trustee Ann Becker, whom she apparently blames for helping the coffee shop receive a SPARK Small Business Revitalization Grant.
Notice the “All-star Contributor” badge under Boddy’s name:
Coterie hosts Drag Queen shows for CHILDREN – and Ann Becker is rewarding them with YOUR taxpayer money!
Lovely. Nothing new for Ann Becker!
After all the exposure of the perverts in our community who support the sexualization and perversion of children through Drag Queen Story Hour, the West Chester trustees and administration are now publicly endorsing this disgusting behavior in their official newsletter…
This is not about one inflammatory activist. This is about a legacy media company knowingly amplifying defamatory accusations.
After all, you can’t blame a pigeon for crapping on your car; that’s what birds do. But while Boddy continues soiling the page with culture war outrage, we have to question why the Enquirer provides her with such a lovely perch.
On her own, Boddy’s platform has minuscule reach, with less than 500 followers to her Access Ohio by Darbi Boddy Facebook page.
But the Enquirer’s Facebook group has more than 25,000 members. Her frequent posts routinely get hundreds of reactions. Most of those reactions are negative, meeting her vitriol with vitriol, but it’s not hard to imagine the Enquirer’s social team becoming addicted to the type of engagement that her baseless, extremist posts bring.
When I reached out to Carl Weiser, the Enquirer editor who runs the page, to ask why they continue to allow content like the “Potential pedophile Alert!!” post, his response lacked substance:
He said they “allow a robust discussion” and that Boddy’s baseless post “didn’t violate any of the group’s rules.”
Thanks for joining the Greater Cincinnati Politics Facebook group and thanks for reaching out.
We have a list of specific rules that we require of participants - no personal attacks on other members, making sure the post is local for example - but beyond those we allow a robust discussion.
[Boddy’s] post didn’t violate any of the group’s rules.
Thank you again for taking the time to write.
After Weiser’s non-response masquerading as a response, I escalated to Beryl Love, the Enquirer’s Executive Editor, and then to Gannett corporate, citing the company’s own Principles of Ethical Conduct, which commit its properties to “observe common standards of decency” and “consider the possible consequences of our actions.”
Neither Love nor Gannett responded.
So, a disgraced former school board member is using the Enquirer’s platform to accuse local businesses of harboring pedophiles, call community members perverts, and target elected officials for standing near a coffee shop. Not once. Not twice. There are dozens of posts like this.
The Enquirer’s editor says it doesn’t violate the rules. And neither the Executive Editor nor Gannett corporate will respond.
And Darbi Boddy has an All-Star contributor badge to show for it.
The Enquirer’s group rules, all nine of them, cover things like staying on topic and limiting posts to one per day. There’s nothing about accuracy. Nothing about defamation. Nothing about accusing your neighbors of sex crimes against children.
The Enquirer made its decision: accusing local businesses of grooming children is acceptable content on a platform carrying its name. And nobody at the paper is willing to do a thing about it.
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The enquirer used to have loads of neighborhood groups too but apparently shut those down (due to liability?). I wonder if that is where this one is going.
I am somehow seeing her Facebook posts ( can't seem to get rid of them) and while this piece is excellent in terms of the Enquirer's culpability- it fails to truly describe the heinous nature of the shit she posts. She's truly a domestic terrorist targeting children.