April 16, 2025

Bad Teachers: Brittany Fortinberry

Show Notes
Transcript

Jim Chapman explores the case of Brittany Fortinberry, a teacher accused of inappropriate behavior with students in Martinsville, Indiana, detailing the investigation, victim statements, and evidence found at her home.

Timestamps
00:04 Warning: Graphic Details Ahead
01:32 Inappropriate Messages Uncovered
05:00 Victim Accounts of Grooming
06:17 Graphic Videos and Disturbing Revelations
09:25 Past and Personal Life
14:54 Evidence from the Search Warrant
16:53 Brittany’s Defense
19:51 Investigative Findings
30:17 Judge Denies Arrest Warrant
31:54 New Evidence Emerges

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Hey, everyone, Welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of the Elite.

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I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and all I can say

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about today's episode is that if you're someone that the

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details are too hard for you to listen to, this

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is not the episode for you. You're gonna wanna listen

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to something else, probably, And I know that sounds pretty

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weird coming from the host of a podcast, but this

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one is really descriptive. And I just want to give

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you that warning up front. Now, if you've listened to

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my podcast for a while, you know I'm someone that

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feels I would be doing you a disservice by not

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giving you the full details, regardless of what they are.

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I don't filter things because they occur, and I'm not

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gonna sugarcuat it when people are committing crimes, especially teachers.

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So there you have it. Let's get into it. And

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today I'm gonna tell you about bad teacher Britney Fortonberry.

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And this stuff with Britney Forton Berry is fairly recent

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and details still continue to come out even to this day.

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So who is Britney Forton Berry. Well, she was a

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teacher from Martinsville, Indiana, She was thirty one years old

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and married at the time that these allegations took place.

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So what happened, Well, the investigation started in late August

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of twenty twenty four. Now, according to the probable cause affidavit,

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an investigator was called to Eminence High School to investigate

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a report made by two students to staff of that

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high school that they were receiving inappropriate messages on Instagram

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from a teacher, Brittany Fortonberry. In addition, they claimed that

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they were getting inappropriate videos from Britney forton Berry as well.

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So the investigator gets this information and he schedules an

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interview with the two students that made the claims, and

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the first interview was conducted on September third of twenty

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twenty four with who I'm going to call victim number one,

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and I'm going to summarize that interview according to that affidavit,

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so victim number one said that around the fourth day

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of school, he was called to the office and was

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told a new teacher had arrived at that school and

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he was going to be that new teacher's teaching assistant.

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The new teacher was Britney Fortenberry. So he goes to

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her class, she introduces herself. She tells him right away

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that he could call her miss b and he helped

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her unload some boxes from her car. He also helped

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her grade some papers that day, and according to victim

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number one, at first everything seemed normal. He went on

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to say that even the rest of the week was

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it's fairly normal. So the weekend comes and over that weekend,

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she adds him on Instagram, and he went on to

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say that as soon as she added him, she sent

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him a text asking him where the cross country meet

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was for that high school that was set to take

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place that weekend. She said that she wanted to attend

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some meat. Now, at first he found this kind of

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strange that she was asking him and not another teacher.

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But he responded back with a link to the schedule

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for that meat and she continued chatting with him on Instagram.

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But it was innocent in his mind. She was just

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asking him what he was going to be doing over

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the weekend, and the way he described it, it was

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just friendly text. Now, already us as adults, we know

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that's inappropriate, but I'll continue on. He then said that

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following Monday, when he returned to school, she was getting

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even more friendly with him, and he also noticed she

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started favoring him over the other teacher assistant who was

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his bestie. And he said at one point that day,

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she asked victim number one how old he was, and

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he responded with eighteen, and then she asked how old

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his buddy was, that other teacher's assistant who will refer

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to going forward as victim number two, and he stated

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in that case that his buddy was seventeen. So he said,

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after he told her that he was eighteen, she really

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started focusing a lot of her attention on him, and

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he said it felt kind of weird because he could

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tell that she was flirting with him, but he knew

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some people that they just kind of had flirty attitudes,

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so that's what he chalked it up to. Then that Wednesday,

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after leaving class to go get lunch, he gets another

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message on Instagram from Britney Fortenberry and she thanked him

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for grading paper for her. He responded with no problem,

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happy to do it, Hope you have a great weekend,

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and the way she responded back really took this kid

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by surprise. Her response was you too, but you aren't

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the one who had to change their pants after class. Now,

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this guy was not sure what she meant by that,

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so he responds back with wow, okay. And it was

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later on that Wednesday that she messaged him yet again

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on Instagram and asked him to come to her room,

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saying she needed some help finishing grading papers, which he did.

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Later that night, he was with victim number two. They

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were just hanging out at victim number one's house and

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victim number two gets an Instagram message from Brittany and

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in that message, she asked him if he wanted to

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see her new collection. And before this kid could even

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respond back, he gets a video. In this video that

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she sent him, it was Britney going through several drawers

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of what appeared to be her dresser, and they were

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completely full of sex toys and she's pulling them out

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one by one and just kind of showing them on

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the video. Now, according to Victim number two, he said

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that kind of freaked him out, so he deleted the chats.

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He satisfied down and he went back to hanging out

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with victim number one. I'm sure they talked about it,

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but he didn't say they talked about it. The next day,

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she starts chatting with victim number one again, and she

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was sending him pictures and it was pictures of her

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and let's just say, sexy dresses, but the straps of

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the dresses were pulled down off the shoulders. And one

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thing about Britney Fordonberry that I hadn't mentioned is that

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she is very voluptuous. Now, I'm a guy, not a girl.

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I don't know a whole lot about cup sizes. But

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later on in his story, Brittany gets questioned by police

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and mentioned that her cup size is an H size,

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So me is a guy, I know that's big. But

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continuing on, she's sending this pictures her boobs are completely

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falling out, basically, and this guy knew exactly what she

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was doing. He told the investigator that he could tell

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she was trying to get him to check out her cleavage,

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and he told the investigator he responded back with a

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statement saying, sending pictures like that could ruin your job.

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And then he had a wonderful girlfriend and he had

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no problems with being the teacher's assistant, but that she

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needed to leave him alone. Outside of that. Now, keep

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in mind, he's in high school. He is eighteen. So

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he then stated that later that night she sent him

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a link to apply for a scholarship, and he kind

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of took this as her trying to be helpful and

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maybe smooth things over with him. She probably was filling

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him out to see if he was going to tell

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anybody about those pictures. But another thing he mentioned was

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every time she would send him suggestive text, she would

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send them in vanish mode, and when she would send

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him more professional text like the scholarship link, they wouldn't

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be in vanish mode, which says a lot right there.

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Proves that she knows that she was doing something wrong

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if she's sending something in vanish mode. Again, he was eighteen,

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but she's a teacher. He's a senior in high school.

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So the next day after all this occurred, he's talking

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to victim number two, and of course these high school

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kids talk how many times have we covered that? And

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he mentions his conversation and his buddy says, you're not

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gonna believe this, but she started talking to me on

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Instagram last night in some pretty great detail. Victim number

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one also mentioned that during the conversations, she had told

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him over the last two years that she had lost

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over one hundred pounds, and he said that the way

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she said it, it was almost like she was looking

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for praise out of him, and he said, I responded

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to that with that's great. But a few other disturbing

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things that she mentioned to Victim number one was the

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fact that when she was younger, she was a stripper.

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I mean, why are you telling that to your student.

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She also said that she had an OnlyFans account and

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did mention that she was married to a firefighter. Now,

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when the investigator asked him, did she send you any

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nude pictures, he did reply with no, just revealing pictures,

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and he said there were about six pictures in total

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that she sent. She also sent him a picture of

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her room where he could see a stripper pole that

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she had installed in that room, and he mentioned her

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only communications with him were through Instagram. And lastly, on

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that the investigator learned that Britney Fortenberry told Victim number

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one one morning in class that the prior night she

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had a dream that she had sex with him and

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his buddy at the same time. And what's she doing there,

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textbook grimming. She's wanting to see how he responds to that,

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and it's her way of letting him know what she's

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wanting to do with regards to a threesome with these

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two high school kids. So armed with this information, the

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investigator goes to victim number two. This was on the

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same day, September third of twenty twenty four, and victim

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number two verifies everything victim number one had said regarding

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how they came to know this teacher, her sharing that

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she used to be a stripper, and he also said

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she would share intimate details about her sex life with

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her husband. He said. In one conversation on Instagram, she

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told victim number two that she was very, very, very

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sexually active in the past, he said. When he mentioned

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this to victim number one, victim number one told victim

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number two, you ought to ask her about that couch

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in her bedroom. So he did, and her response was

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that the couch was where her and her husband had sex. Again,

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she's having this conversation with her high school students, he said.

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At some point, she mentioned she also had a TikTok

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account to him, but that he didn't have a TikTok,

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and he said he thought it was only a couple

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of days before she started sending all of her messages

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to him in vanish mode. The first image he received

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from her in vanish mode was her smoking weed in

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her garage. Now, let me tell you about some of

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these conversations that she was having with the seventeen year old.

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She talked about being raped by her first husband. She

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talked about having part of her uterus removed. She talked

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about how she partied a lot, in that she was

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on a lot of dating apps, and he said at

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some point she mentioned making twelve grand from OnlyFans, to

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which he responded with quote, OnlyFans is an app to

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manipulate men, and she responded to that with no, I

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mainly do that on Snapchat, and then provided her Snapchat

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handle to him, and he said in the video she

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would send like the one of her smoking weed. She

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was always wearing something very revealing, but never fully exposing herself.

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He said that he received similar videos three times from her,

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all of them in vanish mode. So after that second

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interview was done, the investigator figured out it was almost

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identical to what the detective was hearing from victim number one.

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So it's a high likelihood these high school students are

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telling the truth. So at this point, the detective feels

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like he has enough to seek a search warrant for

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Britney fort Berry's residence, so he does that and a

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judge grants that search warrant and he heads over there

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to see if he can verify some of these things

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that these two high school students were saying. They were

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descriptive about how her bedroom looked, all those sort of things.

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So he gets there. This is on September six, just

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a couple of days after interviewing those high school students.

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But Brittany's not there now. According to the affidavit, someone

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in the family was there, who the affidavit does not specify,

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but the investigator said, can you call her and I

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speak with her on the phone. The family member does that,

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and the investigator advises Brittany that they're there to serve

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a search warrant and would she come on home so

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he could speak with her. What she agreed to do,

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and while she's on the way home, they go ahead

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and they execute this search warrant and guess what they

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find in a basement bedroom a stripper pole, just like

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what those students described. They also found numerous is how

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they define it sex toys in addresser that was consistent

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with what victim number one had said. And I want

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to say right here, it's not illegal to have a

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stripper pole in your house. It's not only to have

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sex in your house. It's not only going to have

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sex toys in your house. They got no issues with that,

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But it's a little different when you're sending pictures of

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all of this to high school students. So they take

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pictures of all this stuff that they find, and Brittany

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never shows up at the house. So the investigator leaves.

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He goes back to the sheriff's office and he says,

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when Brittany gets home, have her meet me at the

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sheriff's office. The same day, around three o'clock in the afternoon,

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Brittany shows up at the sheriff's office and he conducts

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an interview with her. So Brittany said that she was

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told by the school that she was having inappropriate conversations

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with students, and she tells the investigator, look, I have

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a bunch of social media and I can be pretty

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provocative on my social media, and somehow this is gotten

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around the school. And once she realized that it was

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going around the school, she blocked it according to her,

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to where the kids could not see it, and she

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claimed that she even reported all this to the administration

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of the school. She even says that she met with

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the union president for the teachers union, and she said

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as a result of that meeting, she resigned from the school.

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She acted like she had no idea where these accusations

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were coming from. She said, all I was told was

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an eighteen year old and seventeen year old made allegations

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about me, and she resigned because she was offended by

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those accusations. So at this point, the investigators trying to

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figure out how these high school students, if what she

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was saying were true, how would they know all these

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personal details about her? And the investigator asked her about

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her ex husband, and she said he was abusive and

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that he was fighting for custody of their son, et cetera.

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And the detective moves into asking her if she's had

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any sort of conversations with students outside of school, especially

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related to conversations that would be considered inappropriate or sexual

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in nature, and Brittany responds that the school was accusing

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her the same thing, and she said she didn't know

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where it was coming from. She then goes on to

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tell the investigator that, to be honest with him, she

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regressed the day she lost weight, saying that she wouldn't

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have any of these issues if she were still one

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hundred and fifty pounds heavier, which remember, victim number one

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stated she had mentioned to him that she had lost

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over one hundred pounds, so that converned she's likely had

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at least that conversation with that high school student because

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she was not a teacher when she was one hundred

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and fifty pounds heavier, so that student would know unless

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she told him. And it's not illegal to tell a

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student you've lost one hundred and fifty pounds or one

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hundred plus pounds. Nothing wrong with that, but it validates

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the student was being honest about it. And if he's

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being honest about that, he's probably being honest about other things.

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So we'll continue. Brittany then tells the investigator that she

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felt like she was being discriminated against from the school

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for the way she looked, and she brought up an

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incident as to why she thought that. She said that

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the school called her in and said she could not

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go to a particular community pool where the students were

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having a pool party, must have been a school sponsored event,

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and she asked why she couldn't go, and they told

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her that the moms felt it would be a distraction because,

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as I told you, she's very top heavy. If you will,

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she told the officer she had a very traumatic childhood

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and had borderline personality disorder, but that she really enjoyed

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teaching and that she had been teaching for Martinsville Schools

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for only one semester. She even said that she chose

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to teach high school students because she realized they're going

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through puberty and that she felt like she might could

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help them with issues that come with going through puberty. Now,

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I mean, she really fucking said that. That's not something

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that's the whole problem. That's the whole issue here, right.

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Brittany also told investigators that she did have a past

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and that she did have an OnlyFans account, and she

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doesn't know how, but someone at some point posted a

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video of her on porn ub. So after getting all

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this history, the detective comes out and asks Brittany what

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her thoughts were on the most recent and allegations of

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that school had made, and Brittany admitted to contacting victim

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number one and victim number two and said she contacted

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them on Instagram regarding scholarship things, and her claim was

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they were trying to talk to her about stuff that

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was outside of what you would consider school things, and

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that she tried to nip it in the bud because

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she's been on the wrong side of inappropriate conversations in

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the past and she wanted to make sure she set

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some boundaries now. Brittany claimed that all she did was

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talked to them about scholarship things, and that one of

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the students did try to do a video call with

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her a couple of times, but that she quote shut

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that down. She also claimed that she was trying to

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see if the boys knew other kids that were trying

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to add her on Snapchat and that was one of

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the reasons she was reaching out to them on Instagram.

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She said she had a lot of problems after it

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got out that she had an OnlyFans account from kids

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that she suspected were from that high school reaching out

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and trying to follow her on Snapchat, and she was

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trying to disseminate who to allow to follow her and

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who not to allow. She said after she quit at

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Imminence High School. She shut down all of her social

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media accounts because she had students' parents trying to add

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her and she wasn't sure what their intentions were. She

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even brings up a very strange correction that she had

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to make with a student, and she said that a

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student had drawn a penis on another student's arm, and

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Brittany said the comments about one of the boyfriend's girlfriends

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sucking it so good where the ink would come off

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were written on his arm, and Brittany said, she told

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him to wash it all and he needs to not

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do such inappropriate things. And the reason she's doing that

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is she's trying to prove that even when the students

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would do inappropriate things, I would shut it down. So

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why would I do inappropriate things? So the detective he

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goes on to explain to Brittney why they were at

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that house and why they were serving that search warrant,

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and he said it was to verify what these students

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were saying. He then asked her again if any of

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the conversations that she had with victim number one or

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victim number two were other than what she claimed, which

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were about those scholarships. Right then he let her in

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on a little bit of evidence that they had, and

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he brought up that stripper pole and he said, look,

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if you didn't have any conversations outside the realm of scholarships,

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and if they knew who these snapchat handles were then,

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and how did one of the boys know you had

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a stripper pole in a room in your house? And

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Brittany responded with this, She said she had posted the

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stripper pole picture on her Instagram stories and basically if

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the boys saw that, then they would know she had

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a stripper pole in her house. The detective then asked

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if she had sent any other videos in the bedroom

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to the students, and he went further and stated that

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the students claimed that she had sent a video of

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her going through her sex toys, and that he was

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able to verify at her residence when they searched that

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residence that the dresser they described was there and the

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sex toys were in the dresser that they described. And

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her response to that was that she had a thet

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life account and if you don't know what fet life is,

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it's a fetish website, and she said she had posted

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a video of her going through her sex toys on

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fet life, and one or both of those students must

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have seen it posted there, So she completely denied sending

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that video to the students. She did talk about the

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fact that she used to sell nude pictures and said

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that they would not have had access to that. She

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said she would sell them on fet life, but that

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fet life had age verification processes in place before you

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could access the site. And she completely denied everything as

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it related to sexual advances, sex talk, or anything with

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victim number one or victim number two. And the investigator

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does something that's pretty common during questioning. At this point,

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the investigator tried to play both sides. So what he's

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trying to do is he's trying to trap her into

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admitting something, and so he starts giving her outs to

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see if she will take them. And one of the

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things he asked was is it possible you could have

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left your phone like open at school one day and

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a video maybe was up on your phone or the

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students grabbed your phone and scrolled through real quick and

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saw a video. And she said, well, sometimes they would

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listen to music on my phone while we were writing papers,

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et cetera. But she can't imagine they would have had

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enough time to go through it with her being right

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there with them. And the investigator continued on and he said, well,

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is it possible you could have had a conversation with

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one of these victims or both of these victims in

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Bad Teachers: Brittany Fortinberry

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