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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of
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the Elite. I am your host, Jim Chapman, and today
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I am bringing you another episode in the Bad Teacher series.
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Now we're gonna start off in Tompkinsville, Kentucky for this one,
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and I'm gonna tell you a little bit about angela
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comer who in two thousand and six, at the age
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of twenty six years old, fled the state of Kentucky
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with her fourteen year old student she was having a
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sexual relationship with and escaped to Mexico. Really unbelievable story here,
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and I'm gonna start it off by telling you a
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little bit about Tompkinsville, Kentucky, where this incident took place. Now,
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Tompkinsville is a small town of a little over two
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thousand people. It's on the southern border of Kentucky, but
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it's in the center of the state on that southern edge,
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and it has a little bit of history with both
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the Revolutionary War and the Civil War. Now, it's definitely
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not the type of place where you would imagine something
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would occur like the story I'm about to tell you about.
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So let's go back to two thousand and six, and
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I'm going to tell you about a math teacher by
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the name of Angela Comber. She taught at Monroe County
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Middle School. She was an eighth grade teacher. Now, Angela
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was twenty six years old, and she was very attractive,
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blond hair, five six, kind of statuesque female, certainly noticeable
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to any fourteen year old boy. So at the time
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of this incident, Comber had taught at Monroe County Middle
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School for about a year and a half, and prior
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to that, she had taught at what's known as Baron
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County Middle School. That was for about two years. So
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despite the fact that she was only twenty six years old,
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she had already had nearly four years of teaching experience.
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She wasn't new at this, not that that necessarily would matter.
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And despite the fact that Comber was known as a
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creative and enthusiastic teacher, she did have some performance issues
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according to the school administration, which means that her students
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they were not scoring on a level expected on test, etc. Apparently,
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whatever her style of teaching, if you will, whatever that was,
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her students were not learning as she should and that
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was reflecting in their test scores and I would say
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that could have something to do with what was going
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on behind the scenes in Comer's personal life, which was
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just absolutely a mess. Just two years prior to the incident, now,
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in two thousand and four, Angela Comber filed petitions against
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her own parents, claimed that her father had bruised her
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arm and that her mother had abused her verbally, mentally,
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and physically. She also said at that time in two
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thousand and four, that her parents had threatened to take
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custody of her young son. So then, three months prior
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to the incident taking place that I am about to
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tell you about, Angela Comber filed for divorce of her husband, David,
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saying he was abusive. However, just a few days after filing,
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she rescinded that filing. She essentially changed her mind. Now,
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right after rescinding those papers, she abruptly quit her teaching
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job at Monroe County Middle School. This was in November
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of two thousand and five. So interesting that when I
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researched this case, I had to refer to a lot
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of old newspaper articles. Usually when I I go back
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more than about five years to ten years, the articles
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that I can find online pretty tough to find. I
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have a subscription to a service that actually brings together
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all these old newspaper articles and sometimes you can dig
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up some really good information. That's what I had to
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do here in this case. A lot of these old
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newspaper articles were from Kentucky, where all this went down.
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And one thing that stood out to me was that
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way back in two thousand and six, they didn't protect
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the victim's identity like they do today. I mean, this
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kid's first name and last name, fourteen year old kid,
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mind you, his name was everywhere when all of this
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came out in the media, which is very strange these days.
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Usually they'll use initials, they'll give an age, but there's
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no way that the media is going to report the
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name of a victim. A lot of people say that
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revictimizes the person. I think it also speaks to the
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fact that even back then, well I would say, especially
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back then when you were a guy and you were
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fourteen and your teacher was twenty six, like in this case,
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it didn't really look at you as a victim. It's
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just facts. It's why I do this series. So getting
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back to it, I'm not gonna use his full name
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I'll just use his first name, and his first name
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was Justin, And I'm going to tell you a little
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bit about Justin. Now, Justin in two thousand and five,
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and in two thousand and six, and even prior to that,
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he lived with his grandmother, who was his legal guardian.
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And she was also no stranger to education herself. She
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had been a supervisor of education before her retirement, and
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even after retiring, she still worked as a substitute teacher. Now,
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in addition to that, she also took care of the
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grounds in dig gardening in a large apartment complex in
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the area, not because she had to, but because she
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wanted to. Now, Justin had lived with his grandmother for
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six years, since he was eight years old. This poor
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lady was sixty eight years old when all of this
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went down that she had to deal with sixty eight Now,
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apparently Justin he didn't have an easy early childhood. It
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was very unsettled. As a matter of fact, he stayed
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with several different relatives before settling in with his grandmother.
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And it's kind of surprising to me because when I
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researched his family name, well, it was a very powerful
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name in the Monroe County area. His father, as a
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matter of fact, at one point was the most powerful
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attorney in that county. Justin's mother and father, however, they
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never got married. Apparently she got pregnant, she had Justin,
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and I don't know, maybe they weren't in love or whatever,
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but they never got married, and drug abuse plagued his father,
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that high powered attorney, so much so that in nineteen
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ninety seven, Justin's grandmother she files charges against Justin's dad, which,
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by the way, that's her own biological son. She said
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that he threatened to kill her, and she blamed drugs
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for her son's demise. Probably pretty good and accurate description,
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mayor of why he turned out the way he did
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and was threatening to kill his own mother. This was
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just shortly after her son had been accused by her
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of stealing a five thousand dollars boat from her. And
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that might not sound like much, but remember the timeframe.
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That was way back in nineteen ninety seven. Five thousand
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dollars gives you a nice boat. Surely after that, Justin's
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dad life spiraled even more. He eventually lost his license
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in the state of Kentucky to even practice law. So
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let's get back to two thousand and five. And as
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I said, this grandmother she knew the education system. She
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also knew what would be considered appropriate and not so
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appropriate when it came to teachers and students. And it
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was in November of two thousand and five when she
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became really suspicious. So shortly after Angela had left her
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job at the school. Remember she got divorced, or she
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filed for divorce, then she rescinded that, and shortly after
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that she ended up leaving the teaching profession completely, just
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quit her job. So shortly after that, Justin's grandmother started
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hearing ramblings that Justin had had an affair with this
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teacher comer. Now, initially, Grandma she chalked this up to
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Justin lying to his friends because she was hearing a
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lot of this from other kids that went to school
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with Justin, and she's thinking, Eh, he's just trying to
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become more popular at school. As I said, this is
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a very pretty teacher, and so in her mind, he's
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just trying to be a big man on campus. And
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now that that teacher's not teaching there anymore, she can't
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really defend herself to the other students. So that's what
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she chalked it up to.
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Jim, did you see what happened in Texas today?
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Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you
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what happened in New York.
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It cannot be as crazy as the case I told
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you about yesterday in Louisiana.
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You know what, we should do a podcast about it,
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in the description of this podcast. She just couldn't believe
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the idea of this beautiful, married, twenty six year old
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teacher with a son of her own incidentally having any
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interest in her fourteen year old grandson. And these were
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other kids saying it, and they lie right, or he
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lied to them, whatever. But things would change when parents
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would start to notice. They would also hear kind of
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these ramblings going around that Justin is messing or did
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mess around with this teacher. And then they would go
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to basketball games and lo and behold, Angela would show
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up and she would bring food to Justin these basketball games. Now,
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one thing I had not mentioned was the size of Justin. Now,
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he was only fourteen years old, but he certainly looked
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like a grand man. He was actually six foot two
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and two hundred pounds at fourteen years old. Now doesn't
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excuse anything that was done here, but it's important for context,
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and you'll see why ledter on. So at some point
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in November of two thousand and five, his grandmother, she
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has a conversation with one of Justin's more trusted friends,
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and that friend he tells the grandmother that he knows
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for a fact Justin's not lying about sleeping with this teacher.
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She says, well, how do you know that for a fact,
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And he tells Justin's grandmother that one day he listened
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in on the telephone while Justin called Angelo to set
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up one of these hookups, if you will, and he
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asked her if she had taken her birth control. And
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that was totally in an effort to prove to his
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friend that what he was telling him was legit. All
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of this was set up by Justin. So the grandmother
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at this point, she starts digging in even deeper into
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her grandson's emails, et cetera. Now, this is two thousand
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and six. Texting wasn't a thing back then like it
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is now. I mean, back in two thousand and six,
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you had. It took like forty five minutes to text
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a sentence in two thousand and six, because you had
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to go through each individual key. And for example, if
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it was the number one on your telephone, on your
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on your cell phone back then your flip phone, if
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you will, it would have ABCD and you'd have to
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if you wanted that sentence or that word to start
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with D, you would have to hit the one button
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four nine and the D would pop up. Then you'd
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have to go to the next letter. It was horrible.
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So there wasn't texting really back then like there is now.
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But there was emailing and a lot of it. And
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she goes through her son's emails and she discovers that
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Comer and her grandson had been having an affair. There
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was just these emails weren't that blatant, but they were
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enough to where you knew something was not right. She
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also discovered that they were accomplishing this in a unique way.
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So grandma. She had trouble sleeping. She suffered from insomnian
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She would take medicine, sleeping medicine to help her go
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to sleep. The problem was she would take it and
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she'd wake up two hours later and then you know,
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it was just a nightmare from there, trying to fall
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back asleep. Now, her grandson knew she had a pattern
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like this. He had memorized her pattern, so he would
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wait until she popped that pill and then he would
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tell his teacher, you can come on over to the
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house and they would actually have sex in the house
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while the grandmother was sleeping, and she would get out
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of the house before the grandmother woke up. So she
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has a conversation with Justin after discovering these emails, even
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though they weren't one hundred percent clear of what I
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just told you, that was the inference that you could draw.
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She has that conversation and Justin tells her Luck, you're
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being ridiculous. You're building this up in your head. Me
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and Angela Comer were just friends, which she knew it
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was BS, but regardless, She tells him, you need to
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stay away from her from now on. And she tells him,
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I'm gonna be watching in my radars up and I'm
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gonna throw this bitch in jail basically if this can now.
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Two weeks after that, she also files charges against Angela
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because although she felt that she couldn't prove any sort
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of sexual relationship was going on with her grandson and
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Angela Comber, she felt like she could prove another law
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in Kentucky, and that law is known as unlawful transaction
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with a minor. And what that is in Layman's term,
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it basically means that Comer was causing Justin, who is
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a miner, to disobey his grandmother. She's coersing him into that,
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and that's a law, or was a law then in
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two thousand and six, So she files as charges. You
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get a coordinate, et cetera. So all of this, everything
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I've just told you thus far leads us to January