Bad Teachers: Caitlin Rock

0:19 Welcome back to Exposed, and OMG, do I have an episode coming your way today as part of the Bad Teachers series. And this one brings us to the state of Nevada. Now, it's just after 3 o'clock in the morning on June 11th of 2024. in a house in Reno, Nevada. A mother is awake and she checks her son's phone location. He was supposed to be with friends, but the pin on the screen said something completely different. It showed him at a local park. So she gets in her car. It's about three o'clock in the morning. The streets are empty.

1:00 No one's on the road and she is racing down these dark streets when she reaches a park And she finds her 14-year-old son and what he tells her next will end a year and a half of secrecy as well as start a criminal case that would eventually produce some 19 felonies. He tells his mom he had been in a sexual relationship with a female by the name of Caitlin Rock and that she worked for the school district. She's 46 years old. And he says they met through her job as an intervention specialist. Someone whose official role was to help students struggling with attendance get back on track and stay in school. A job to curb truancy in that area. And he tells his mother that he was 13 years old. when this relationship started. So, if you do the math backwards, by the time his mother had tracked him to that park, that relationship had already stretched from 2022 to the middle of 2024. Now, today I'm going to take you inside the details from start to finish, and this one is one of the rare times you'll actually hear me say that the sentence imposed by fit the crime. So let's get into it, and as I always do, we're going to start where these cases should start, with the victim, before any of this ever happened. Now, of course, in the public record, there's almost nothing personal about this student, and that's exactly how

2:32 it should be. He's not named, there's no childhood stories that would surface later in court, and not really any family details beyond what his mother would eventually say at the sentencing. There's no description of hobbies, friends, or what kind of personality he had outside of school. What the documents do show is more ordinary than that. In 2022, he was a middle schooler, wrap that around your brain, in what's known as Washoe County School District. He was attending Billinghurst Middle School, and he had been flagged for attendance issues that were serious enough that the district assigned him an intervention specialist. And just to deviate for a quick second and discuss truancy issues, which... Here in Louisiana, we have truancy issues. Here in my parish, not so much.

3:25 But we do have them, and really they exist everywhere in the country. As a matter of fact, in my parish, we actually have people that are assigned. These are specific police officers to keep an eye on truancy, communicate with the school district, and when someone becomes a problem, we pay attention. that person a visit or his parents and try to get them back in school. I think there's a direct correlation between how these young people are turning out when they turn to violence and gangs and things like that and them not attending school. So, As far as this kid, there's just not a whole lot out there because he was a minor when all of this took place. Now, it was a kid for whatever reason was missing enough school that the system put an adult in front of him whose specific job was to help him get.

4:14 Back on track. And that's kind of worth slowing down for because most of us remember middle school, right? It's a weird time. stretch of years in everyone's life. You're not a little kid anymore, but you're nowhere near an adult. Typically, the school you go to is much bigger than the school you're coming from in elementary school, and the expectations. Are higher for you. Your friends start to matter more than they ever had prior to this, and the adults around you start to feel just unrelatable at this time in your life. Now, for a lot of students, attendance can start to slip for many reasons, and most of these are just ordinary reasons.

4:57 Maybe the mornings are just a little bit more difficult. Maybe transportation to and from school is inconsistent. Maybe there's something going on at home that makes getting to school every day feel harder than. It used to be. Maybe the student just starts checking out a little the way plenty of 13 year olds do when the fun of school is starting to wear off and the social pressure has not dissipated. a student begins to disconnect, that gap will usually widen. Missed days turn into missed weeks, and missed weeks turn into the student falling so far behind that returning feels impossible because you're probably going to fail the grade anyway.

5:41 A lot of these students think. So school systems build roles specifically to stop that slide. Now, in this particular county, those roles had carried a few different titles over the years. Intervention Specialist, Engagement Specialist, Prevention Specialist, all the same things. It's basically just in the paperwork the way it's written. You're assigned students who already have trouble showing up. You work with these students. You work with their families. And you try to figure out what's getting in the way and remove enough of those obstacles that these students start going back to school on a regular basis. It's very important. It's not a traditional classroom teaching position. You're not standing in front of 30 kids. You're doing case management work.

6:29 with a smaller number of students who have already been identified as at risk or falling out of the school system completely. And that gives you a very unique and different type of access. You're not just another adult in a hallway. You're an adult the school had placed between that student and the possibility of disappearing from school altogether. And this is such an important point because that's how this student ended up in regular contact with Caitlin Rock. Now, she is the person who That district assigned because he needed help staying connected in Billinghurst Middle School. She also worked at what's known as Swoop Middle School or Swope.

7:12 Not really sure exactly how that is pronounced. Now, from the outside, nothing about that arrangement looked weird or unusual or strange. There are no public reports before late 2022 of red flags attached to this relationship. or complaints regarding this particular lady, Caitlin Rock. It looked like the school was functioning the way it was designed to function. A student who is struggling gets assigned an adult, and the entire purpose is to address that struggle. Now, think about what that actually means day to day. That specialist in this particular situation, it's Caitlin Rock, that specialist is supposed to know when the student missed school, and why they miss school. She's supposed to be in contact with the family at all times. She is supposed to have enough of a working relationship with that student, hence working relationship, that she can talk to him about what's going on and help problem solve it, if you will. That relationship is absolutely built on the assumption that the adult in the role is there to protect the student's connection to the school, not to exploit it. Now, this student at 12 or 13 has no particular reason to question that assumption. Remember, this is a kid, a legit kid, right? Middle school age kid. The adult has been placed in front of him by the school itself. The conversations that are supposed

8:45 to happen are about getting him to class or about, look, why are your mornings so difficult that you can't get to school? And to try to keep him from falling further behind, those are the conversations that that job exists to create and nothing beyond that, but you'll see here it went. Way beyond that. Now, in the public record, we don't get the context of those early conversations. We do not get the descriptions of how often they met, what the students said about school, or what his mother understood Caitlin Rock's role to be at the time. But what we do get is the structural facts. Before late 2022, this was a middle school boy in Reno who had been connected to the attendance support system at Billinghurst She was assigned to control that.

9:34 And that's it. And that's all. And by the time his mother tracked his phone to that park in the early morning hours of June 11th, 2024, that ordinary arrangement had already been something more sinister for some year and a half, if you can believe that. So let's talk about Caitlin Rock, whose full name is Caitlin Rose Rock. She was by 2022 a longtime employee. Of that county school district as an intervention assistant. She worked at Billinghurst Middle School and at Darrell C. Swope Middle School in the job in that district. Prior to that, she had also worked for more than a decade at the University of Nevada at Reno. Now, when she was there, the positions listed included testing coordinator, executive MBA program coordinator, digital learning specialist, just a bunch of roles that would, it appears, make it a smooth transition to what she was doing now. She worked with students, even in that college university role. In 2022, Caitlin Rock was in her mid-40s.

10:46 She was married. She had two children of her own. And at the time the relationship with this student began, she was living an adult life with a spouse, kids, a job, a house, nothing that would be any red flag any of this was going to occur later. Now, one detail that surfaced only after everything came out, actually it was during the defense case at trial, is that Rock had reportedly dealt with Lyme disease and that she was self-medicated with Kratom for pain. A defense expert would testify he believed the kratom was harmful enough that it impaired her judgment, but more on that later. I'll let you know my thoughts on it. Now, an ordinary week for Caitlyn. She would go into work. A student would be identified as truant, maybe by a counselor, maybe by an attendance clerk, maybe because the family had already reached out to the school, and then Caitlyn reaches out There's conversations with this student. And the goal on paper, pretty straightforward.

11:48 Reduce the barriers, increase the days present that this kid actually goes to school, and keep the kid from disappearing off the attendance rolls. The specialist is given the student's schedule information, his contact information in this case, and enough of a mandate to follow up when the student does not. Appear at school. That's normal behavior. And that's what this position was designed to do. So let's move into what the student actually described once he started talking and what the evidence would later show in the trial. According to court documents and testimony that came out at that trial, the sexual relationship actually began in late 2022. At this time, the student is just 13 years old, y'all. The first encounter happened in a parking lot at Grace Church, at a freaking church in Reno, Nevada. Now, that detail came straight from materials prosecutors used.

12:46 And from there, it continued. Court documents described the two of them meeting in her car, meeting at her house, and the relationship did not stay a one. Or two-time event. It occurred and stretched through the rest of 2022 until All of 2023 and into 2024, by the time that mother catches her son at that park and he confesses all of these things to her, prosecutors would introduce hundreds of text messages between Rock and the student. Many of them. Sexually explicit. And the amount of text alone became a huge part of this case. In one, she wrote about waiting for the boy's mother to fall asleep and then picking him up. In another, she wrote, I want to be in your arms all night long. Those texts showed a lot of things outside of they're just disgusting.

13:43 They also showed planning. More on that later. So obviously, it went all the way into 2024 before this student had confessed this to his mother. That's a long time. So it did happen, though. She catches him at that park. He confesses all this. and she calls police, and that report was taken around 3.30 a.m. So detectives get sent out, and they get all this information, and they're like, holy shit, we need to talk to Caitlyn right away. So the next day, they surveil her for a little while, and they decide to pull her over on the side of the road, and here's what that initial conversation after they pulled her over sounded like.

14:28 Hello, how are you? Are you Caitlyn? Hi, Caitlin. My name is Detective Geider. Okay. Obviously, there's some things I want to talk to you about. Okay. You're not under arrest or anything, but I think we need to have a conversation. Would you be willing to. Come to us, come with us to the station and have that conversation? I mean, my kids are at home. Can I get them settled? My husband's in Finland. He's in Finland? Yeah. It's really bad timing. I totally understand, but it is important. Like I said, I just want to. talk to you. Um, so I want to help you out as any way, any, any way possible. Cause I understand your kids. How old are your kids? Um, ninth grade.

15:13 Okay. How old? Um, 13 and 14. 13 and 14. Um, let me, let me do this. We can follow you up there and have you do that. And then would you mind coming down and talking to me? Sure, okay. Can we do that? Can I ask what this is about? Well, it's about sensitive. It's a sensitive topic. And I don't do it out here. I don't want your business out on the streets or anything. But I would like to have you come and talk to me. Again, you're not under arrest or anything, but I just want to sit and have a conversation with you. Okay. Okay? Yeah, I.... Because they can be by themselves for a little bit, right? Yeah, they can.

15:54 Okay. I just need to make sure that they're... Okay. And not to be rude or anything, but is that something you have to go up there and do? How old are the children? Thirteen and fourteen. So, I mean, yeah, they're at friends' houses. Well, one of them's at a friend's house and one of them, but he could be picked up very. Soon and one of them is at home. Is there any way you can call him? Yes, but, okay. I'm just trying so I can get you back home. That's what I'm trying to do, just make it easy so I can get you back to it. I mean, it's totally up to you. If not, we can, you know, you got to go check on them. We can do that.

16:45 What's that? Oh, okay. Hi, honey. So this is going to take a little longer. So are you able to get maybe picked up? Okay, just keep me posted, okay? Well, yeah, afterwards, that's. Fine. Yeah. Okay? Okay. Okay.

17:27 Still good to go, or? Yeah, he's going to try and get picked up. By his friends. Okay, all right. So is that the only person you needed to check on? Yes. Okay. So would you mind following us? You can drive your own car and follow us down. Okay. And then we can have a conversation. I'll try to get you back up here as soon as possible. Great. Okay, so if you could just follow my partner in this Toyota right here. Okay. And then we'll get down there and then we'll have a conversation, get you water and all that. Okay. All right. Thank you. So Caitlin then follows detectives to that station and the actual interview starts. Do you have any idea why we're talking today?

18:08 I am really wondering why, but can you tell me? Yeah, I think you might know. And I want to hear because, again, I just want to have a conversation. There's always two sides to every story. Right. And I think you know why. Right. So I wanted to hear from you why you think you're here talking to me. Okay. I guess I'd like to hear kind of why you brought me in. Well, I asked you and you came down pretty long. Right, right. But there's obviously a reason. Well, you work with kids, right? And kids say things. And our job, obviously, you work in the school district, so you know that when kids say things, we have to investigate that.

18:51 Right. Someone has made an allegation against me? Something to that. Nature, yes. And I'd just like to give you that opportunity to say, oh, I think it might be this here, so then we can have that discussion. Okay. But if you don't know that, then that's fine. Then we're going to have that conversation, okay? So I'll just ask if there's anything that... that jogs your memory or anything while you're sitting here talking to me. Okay. I mean, I'd like to know what someone has said, what their location is, because I don't know. Okay. Yeah, not a problem, and I totally respect that. Do you know a young man by the name of....

19:32 Yeah. Talk to me. About. Okay. Was on my caseload last year. Sure, sure. Okay, and then. He has since moved away, lived with his dad. Okay. And, you know, we've kind of, like, connected. I saw him, you know, out and about in the community. And, you know, it was. Just kind of good to reconnect. Sure. I feel like we had a good connection. Okay. And when you say connection, what is that?

20:12 Because it means... Connection can mean. Anything, and I just want to be clear about it. It's a really interesting, fun to talk to, and, you know, he's got some really creative ideas. Sure. We always, you know, talk about movies, and he's just a really interesting kid. Sure. How long did you work with him? Probably. So maybe. Happen here? Okay. So you kind of know him. Yeah. What kind of kid is he? He is. He's really interesting and funny and.

21:01 Interesting and funny? Yeah. Okay. He does struggle with Tell me about that. What did he struggle with? Coming to school. Okay. You know, he was really, would rather stay home and play video games kind of thing. Wasn't engaged, wasn't really making connections with. His teachers and stuff. And what do you think that was? I don't know. And how old was he when you first started. Working with him? Um. He was so 13 in seventh grade. So quickly, and then we'll continue on. You heard it right there, y'all. This kid was in seventh grade when they connected.

21:49 Sick! Now, obviously, Caitlin knows exactly why she's being questioned, but she plays dumb for a little while longer. There's some things that happen between you and him, and we know that. Okay? For a fact, we know that. Right. Okay? Um, So that's what I want to. Talk about and give you an opportunity, right? I want to give you the opportunity to talk to me because I get one-sided story. That's all I get. And that is your opportunity to talk to me about this stuff, okay? Does that make sense? Of course. Okay. I have an interview today, okay? And it's called a forensic interview. Are you familiar with that at all?

22:33 Okay. Forensic interview. It's done in a remote location. It's not a police station, and there's not cops talking to them or anything. It's a child-friendly environment. It allows a child to talk about whatever it is, right, that's going on inside of them. And there's no leading questions. It's a free narrative that child gets to just really let it all out. And he had an interview today. We interviewed him today. And some things came up, concerning things came up about you and him. What led to. This interview, like for this forensic interview? Because he had something to say.

23:14 Okay. Obviously, he had something to say, and he spoke to his mom about it, and that's where we come. In, okay? When something is said that happens to a child, we come in and we start to investigate it. And there's a process that we go through. Every child will get a forensic interview, not just him. If there's Anything that's going on with a child, they. Go and have a forensic interview, okay? Everyone gets that. So that's what happened. And out of that interview, there were some things that came up that we wanted to talk to you about. Okay. Okay. So I understand that. You met him when he was 13. Mm-hmm. Okay, and he was more of not going to school, being kind of truant and all that type of thing, and you guys had a close connection.

23:58 Mm-hmm. He even said that, that you guys had a good connection. He liked you. And at one. Point, he said that he actually came on to you. He did, yeah. That's what I want to know. He came on to you, right? Mm-hmm. What happened in that interaction? And it's okay. It's awkward, but yeah. It's me and you sitting here. Talking, okay? Yeah. I have talked to thousands of people about things that I wouldn't even tell you, okay? So you're not going to embarrass me, but it is important that we have this conversation. So if you could, what was that?

24:39 I mean, I thought it was kind of ironic, but he had a crush on. You. He would kind of express those feelings, like, and then it got a little, like, He would say, like, I like you. You know, like, so completely normal, like what a kid. I didn't think it was a come on, you know, at all. Sure. At first. What did he say to you? He just, I don't. Remember, but something like. Let me think back.

25:21 I can't even remember, but basically, like, I like you. You know, so very straightforward, and, you know, and I was like. I like you, too, because that's just kind of, I have those interactions with kids all the time. Sure, absolutely. It's like, you know, I think you're a really cool kid, and that's what I would express. And then it got to the point of, like, he asked to, like, touch me, and I had to kind of, like, tell him, no, that that was inappropriate. And when you say touch. What is he trying to touch? Just, like, my hips or. Yeah. He's like, can I touch your hips? That's kind of how that progressed.

26:01 Okay. And then, kind of, what happened after that? Well, I mean, I told him that it was not okay, inappropriate, and, like, I tried to kind of diffuse. The situation and, like, still have a. Sure. Yeah, exactly. With maintaining, like, a. a relationship where he could still come to me and, you know. Trust me. Sure. You know what? That's exactly what he said. Yeah. He said he found you as, quite frankly. He had a crush. He had a crush on you. And he, this is how truthful he is.

26:42 Yeah. You agree? I mean, he's a truthful kid. He says to me, he says. Yeah, I gave Caitlin a hug and I squeezed her. Oh, my God. He tried. Okay. That's what he said, right? Yeah. I don't know why he would make that up, right? I mean, he's saying that's what he did, so he came. On to you. And then in this interview, he goes on and tells us a little bit more that you're in his relationship even advanced. It moved forward in that. I mean, he told you that he had a crush on you. And I know that you were deflecting in that.

27:25 Did you ever say anything to keep him kind of enticed with you, kind of in line with you? And I guess a better question would be, you know, I know you're not trying to hurt his feelings. You try to put boundaries up against, you know, for his advances. But did you ever say, do. Anything that would give him the wrong thought process that there was something between. You and him? Maybe with how I was like, well, I like you too. I think you're a really great person. You know, that kind of. Nothing to the point where I think that he would think. It's okay to grab my butt.

28:06 But he did do that, right? He tried. Okay. Because he did ask for a hug and I said yes. Oh, he asked for a hug and he. Gave him a hug. Yeah. That's not bad at all. So he. Told us things, okay, that caused us a little. Concern that not only was he coming on to you, Okay, but you reciprocated some of those emotions, and that's okay.

28:49 But that's what he's telling us. That's why I'm here talking to you, because he said those emotions were reciprocated back to him. And I don't know if it was because you said, hey, I care about you too. Yeah, maybe he perceived. It that way, and I didn't set my boundaries. Was there anything else? No. I mean, I can't think of anything else. Did you guys ever communicate? How did you guys communicate normally? Just, you know, I would. Call, like, send a pass for him, and he would come in. And we would communicate that way.

29:30 Okay. Sometimes, occasionally. Like, I would see him, like, outside of school, too, just, like, out and about. Sure. And I guess maybe more pointed, communication. Via cell phones. Did you guys communicate over cell phones? No. At a point, he asked for my phone number. Did he reach out to you ever? He, yeah, he started to reach out. Did you respond back?

30:11 Yeah. What were those text messages? Mostly, you know, just kind of, how's your day? You know, just kind of like, and then just checking. In, that kind of thing. Okay. Okay. Because I have his cell phone. Okay. And now I think you know there's more text messages. Okay. So I want you to be honest with me. That's all I'm asking. Because I have the text messages. I know. Okay. So I want to ask you again. What was going on?

31:01 I just, I don't know if I can express that right now. Okay, take your time. I get it. Yeah. I totally get it. I feel like maybe a lawyer would be good. Okay. So I just want to be clear. Is that what you're asking me right now? Is that what you want? You have to. I'm not trying to pull any rule over your eyes. I'm just confirming or asking. Yeah. Yeah. A lawyer? Yeah. I'm asking. Yeah. You're kind of like, well, I don't know, yes, no.

31:44 Yeah. Okay. All right. With that being said. I can't ask you any more. Questions or anything. So Caitlin, at this point, she knows she's fucked and she lawyers up. The detective leaves the room and you won't believe what she does next. Of course, not realizing the cameras are rolling and recording, she calls her mother on her cell phone. Hi, Mom. I know that's not the text that you want to get. I need your help.

32:27 Okay, it's. Something I'm in an interrogation room right now, being questioned about. It's about an inappropriate relationship with a minor. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm sorry for humiliating and embarrassing the family. I'm really sorry. I can't. Express it right now, but not be here. Yeah.

33:18 And the boys are out of school. They're with a friend right now. And, yeah, they're, um, they don't know, but they will probably soon. Even more so, I want to not. Be here anymore. Okay. Um, I'm not quite sure yet what's going on.

34:10 Um. I was. Well, not with... That would be hard. Um. I don't know, I just logistically, I can't. Plan that. I mean, I guess I could, but I don't know how right now. I'm sorry. Yeah.

34:55 Okay. I don't even know what to do. I think, yeah, I don't know how this is. Going to go, but I don't. But I asked for one. I don't even know who to start with there. I don't even know if I can afford a lawyer, so. I don't. Know. I don't know what to do. I'm kind of at. A loss here. That we met, yeah. I'm going to obviously lose my job. I'm going to lose my family. I'm going to lose everything. Like, I just want to die. Okay.

35:46 I don't know how I'm going to get through this, though. Like, Um, he was interviewed. And kind of like, they have our text messages and stuff. Yeah. Yeah, it's bad. It's really bad. No. No, no, no.

36:26 No, they do not. Not even. No. Yes, that just happened. So, I don't know what to do, but I think they're going to arrest me. Yeah. I mean, yeah, it's... I want to die. Oh, my God. I wish, yeah, I'm sorry, but that's. Really how I feel.

37:09 Okay. Oh, really? Yes, yes. Would you be able to, Mom? Stay with the boys? I mean, could probably get home in the next. He comes home Saturday, but he probably needs to come home. Sooner. Which he will. He'll just, like, there's a family emergency at home, and he'll make it home. So, I mean, we might not need you to come out.

37:54 But now I have to, like, tell. So maybe if I have him call you, do you think that would be okay? Okay. Okay. I don't know what to do about a lawyer. I mean, I don't know. If I haven't been arrested, then, like, I don't know. But I'm asking for one, so does that mean I have to provide one?

38:37 Oh, I see. So y'all notice that she is calm AF on that phone call. It's crazy to me. So at that point, the detective, he comes back in and he informs her she's under arrest and the phone rings and she picks it up and it's her husband. Listen to this. You are under arrest. Did you get my, um, my message? Okay. Um, Okay, so I am here being arrested. Yes. I'm very, very sorry for this, that.

39:20 It's happening like this. I don't know even what to do. I want to kill myself, but I'm really, really sorry. And humiliated. The boys don't know yet. I called my mom. She knows. I know. Yeah. Okay. I don't want to get into it, please. It's bad. Are you able to come home?

40:04 Are you able to come home or should I have my mom come? No, no, I'm sorry. I was just asking, are you able to come home? Because the boys, I don't know what to do. They're at friends' houses and I need maybe either my mom, I was gonna ask her to come, or something, but we need something for the boys because they don't have anyone unless they go to friends' houses. Yeah, I know. I know.

40:48 I mean, they can do a sleepover. They can do a sleepover tonight, maybe, and tomorrow night, and we'll just kind of take it from there. Holy s * * t. No, I'm at the station. Yes.

41:32 Okay. No, it's not if this is really happening. My life's over. I'm sorry. I f * * * ed everything up. So she's arrested and she's charged with 19 felony counts that included four counts of sexual assault of a child under 14 years old, five counts of statutory sexual seduction, and 10 counts of luring a child. And prosecutors would present a ton of evidence at this trial, including DNA results showing that Rock and the student had sex at several locations and The forensic findings corroborated the account of repeated encounters rather than a single incident. And that was important.

42:26 Of course, they also had all these text messages. And another piece that we used at trial was a text Rock sent to her own husband on the day of the arrest, after that detective stepped out of the interrogation room and before he called her. And that text said, quote, I have been in an inappropriate relationship with a minor. This is not a joke. I am being arrested. It's bad. And I want to die. I need you to be here for the kids. Call my mom. And that's y'all when he called. I mean, I played you that recording. So it's off to jail for Caitlin. Bail is set at $ 2 million, which is the highest bail I've seen yet for this series. So shout out to Nevada. The case moved through the second judicial district court system in the state of Nevada versus Caitlin Rock.

43:16 This was on. June 13th of 2024, and she was represented by the public defender's office. Now, the school district, the day of her arrest, they respond to that. Officials said they were appalled by the allegations and that the behavior was reprehensible and not representative of their employees. Everything you would expect them to say. Now, you know how these cases go, y'all. They drag on. This case was no different. The case did not go to trial until January of 2026, almost a year and a half later. Caitlin Rock pleaded not guilty, and the trial itself ran roughly a week. It started January 20th. It ran through January 28th.

44:00 Of this year. Both sides put on their evidence. And the prosecution's case rested on three main pillars, the student's own testimony, the hundreds of text messages, and the DNA results. And one thing that the jury was very impressed with and the judge was the student's memory was very specific, y'all. He recalled pivotal moments, particularly as it related to the first time they had sex. The student described that encounter happening in a parking lot at that church. Like I told you, he was 13 years old. and he told about the contact after that as well. Now, there are some things out there regarding text messages. I'm just going to give you one public example. It was a text exchange from June 8th of 2024, and the conversation occurred shortly before Rock's arrest when she was coordinating to meet this victim's student at night after his mother went to sleep. She texts, Is your mom sleeping? The victim said, No, she's fully up making dinner. Rock said, oh no. The victim said, why?

45:15 Rock said, because I want you to come over now. The victim said, me too. Rock said, I'll come over whenever she goes to bed. Then she says, will you text me when she goes to bed? And the victim said, yes. Rock then said, I want to be in your arms all night long. This is, I mean, bruh. Y'all, this is a 13-year-old. She then texts back later, said, still awake. The victim said, yes. And Rock said, I loved taking a bubble bath with you today. The very next day, Rock sent another text. It said, I love you so much and had the best night with you. And there's another exchange between these two y'all where she tells this 13-year-old kid, that she thinks about him when she masturbates, and she is in love with him, and he is saying he is in love with her. Really sick shit, y'all. Now, the DNA evidence is the third piece in this case, obviously, and results introduced at trial showed sexual contact in several places between Rock and this student.

46:20 And that also played a pivotal role in the trial. The defense says, They blamed everything on the effects of kratom, which, y'all, kratom is a plant. It's from Southeast Asia, and it acts like a painkiller from what I've heard and read. It's ridiculous, considering this happened countless times over a year and a half, but... Whatever, they had to come up with some defense and that was all they could come up with because she was dead to rights with all these texts. So the case then goes to the jury. They deliberate for more than six hours. This is spread over two days time. And on January 28th, 2026, they return verdicts of guilty on 19 counts. The district attorney, his name is Chris Hicks. He issued a statement later that day. He thanked the jury and he said the verdict recognized the severity of the crime and the lasting harm caused when a child is sexually abused. And sentencing then gets set for April of 2026, just a few months ago. And for the first time, y'all, in bad teacher's history, the sentence fit the crime. as Judge Lynn Jones of the Second Judicial District Court. I say her name because I want her to get her flowers. She imposed a 144-year sentence on Caitlin Rock with zero chance of parole. She will spend the rest of her life

47:51 on Earth at the Florence McClure Women's Correctional Center. This is in North Las Vegas. And that houses the state's maximum security female inmate population. First time in history, I am this happy. About a verdict. She got everything she freaking deserved. But there you have it. That is the story of Caitlin Rock on this episode of Bad Teachers. Thank you so much for listening. Check out the Patreon. Look, commercial-free early releases on Patreon every week. The commercials are going to get heavy from now through Christmas time. So if you cannot deal with hitting that skip button, just head over to the Patreon.

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