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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 we
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are back with another episode in the Bad Teachers series.
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Before we get into today's episode, I need to shout
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out the newest Global Celebrity member, Miss Stacy Hazelton, from Niles, Michigan.
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Really cool history, y'all with Niles. It became a city
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Native American flag, and finally the US flag in eighteen
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even exists. And we'll get into today's episode, and this
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time I am bringing you to the great state of
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Arkansas and Saloam Springs, Arkansas specifically to tell you about
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the case of Mary Faith McCormick, who was a thirty
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two year old six grade social studies teacher at Saloam
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Springs Intermediate School. So we're going to jump right into it.
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And on August eighth of twenty fourteen, the Salom Springs
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Police Department, they get a call from the parents of
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a twelve year old female and these parents stated that
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their daughter had barred the phone of one of her
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friends at school and she saw some inappropriate messages between
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McCormick and a thirteen year old male. So police they
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go interview this girl and she has quite the story
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to tell. Now. According to the twelve year old, she
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wanted to send kind of a silly picture of herself
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through Snapchat from that thirteen year old boy's phone. So
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she opens the Snapchat application and she notices a social
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studies teacher at that school, who was Mary Faith McCormick,
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had snapped the thirteen year old boy who owned the phone, So,
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like curious kids are, she clicked on the snap and
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there is a picture of Mary Faith McCormick in a
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bathroom smiling with her cleavage pushed up, kind of like
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Dolly Parton style. Right now, at this point, the twelve
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year old is like, whoa. She then snaps the teacher
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back and she says, quote, why would you send that,
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to which McCormick responds, why don't you like it? Now, Remember,
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McCormick thinks this is the thirteen year old boy snapping
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her back. McCormick then responds with quote, I want to
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climb on top of U your dick unquote. So the
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twelve year old looks through the snap messages further and
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she discovers one picture of McCormick with wet hair while
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showing her breast, and then a text accompanying that that
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said quote, I'm not dirty anymore unquote. This is a
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thirty two year old teacher talking to a thirteen year
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old boy. So this twelve year old girl she goes
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home and she tells her parents and here we are,
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So the first thing police want to do is they
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want to speak with this thirteen year old kid. They
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go pay him a visit, and according to the affidavit,
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the kid that is referred to in that Affidavid as BB,
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says that two weeks into the summer, he and his
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friend were talking about how hot Miss McCormick was, and
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BB was telling his friend, who was also thirteen, that
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he thought felt like miss McCormick was quote into him.
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So his friend he dares him to try and hook
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up with Miss McCormick. So Bbe starts snapping with Miss
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McCormick and they snap back and forth over several weeks,
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and she's definitely playing into it. Although the affidavit doesn't
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get real specific into what exactly she was saying to
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this thirteen year old, it does say that right off
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the bat, the teacher was letting the thirteen year old
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into her life verbally by quote sharing very personal information.
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And that could be anything from you know, her talking
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about her marriage, maybe she was having a bad marriage
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and incidentally she was married with a daughter, or it
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could have been even more personal than that doesn't really say,
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but regardless, that's what you would definitely call the grooming stage.
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When you hear me talk about the grooming stages is
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a perfect example. She is wanting to see how he's
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going to respond to her taking things from a teacher
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student level to a more personal level, if he freaked out,
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because somewhere in that text conversation she says, you know,
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I'm having problems in my marriage, and he's like, I
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don't want to hear about all that. Well, she knows
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to back off, but if he continues to play into it,
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that's grooming. That's what she's trying to do. Then it
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gets even more egregious when the student tells police. He
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asks for a picture of her vagina, which she sends
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to him, and then she requests a picture of his
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quote rock Hard Penis, which he sends to her. So
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BB continues on and he tells the police about five
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weeks prior to when the officer shows up at his
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house to interview him, BB had spent the night at
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a friend's house and they decided to walk by Miss
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McCormick's house, and when they did, she was standing outside
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and he said she invited them in to watch a movie,
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and he said he agreed, but his friend declined and
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went home. Now it's important to mention that later on
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the thirteen year old actually recanted that story as it
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relates to the involvement of his friend, and he actually
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said McCormick picked him up and drove him to her apartment.
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I think initially when he was talking to police, he
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was a little bit scared and it was easier to
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involve another friend than when you're thirteen. You don't realize
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the implications of involving other people in your ship, right.
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So regardless, he goes inside of her house and he
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said they started kidding around on the living room couch,
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then they started kissing, and then he said they went
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into McCormick's bedroom, where he said he sat on the
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bed and McCormick climbed on top of him and they
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started having acts. The policeman taking the report also noted that,
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in an effort to prove this kid had actually been
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into McCormick's bedroom, he asked the kid to describe it.
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Tell them what it looked like, what did the furniture
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look like, the wall color, where was the furniture placed,
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what color sheets were on the bed, those sorts of things,
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and this kid was able to describe it to a
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t According to that officer, the student even mentioned that
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McCormick brought him downstairs after the sacks and that she
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showed him a video of Kevin Hart on her phone.
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And later in the investigation, the police did indeed discover
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that video of Kevin Hart on McCormick's phone, which proved
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this kid was telling the truth, otherwise he would have
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no idea what videos that she had on her phone. Now,
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in addition to all of that, the student allowed police
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into his phone, where they found some pictures of the
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teachers exposed breast as well as a bunch of suggestive messages.
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So with all this evidence police they get a warrant
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to seize McCormick's digital devices. Even before they spoke to her,
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they already had all this evidence, and that warrant included
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an iPad, to cell phones, to jump drives, and a laptop.
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And they head over to her apartment to number one
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interview her, and number two sees that electronic equipment, so
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they go over there they start interviewing her, and of course,
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according to McCormick, this kid's totally full of shit and
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was mad at her for what she said were quote
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unknown reasons, and it's important to note that this time
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she did not know about all this other evidence they had.
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So police sees the electronic equipment and they access McCormick's
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snapchat account and they find multiple photographs and videos of
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the victim, along with the photograph of a woman's breast
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believed to have belonged to McCormick. So they arrest McCormick
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on a charge of rape, and this is in August
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of twenty fourteen. She promptly posts a fifty thousand dollars
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bond later on the same day, and as you would imagine,
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this is not a big city. Salom Springs, Arkansas is
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on the smaller side, and people were shocked, absolutely shocked
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to hear about this. It was also discovered that in
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addition to the sexual encounter that took place at her apartment,
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there was an additional sexual encounter that took place with
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this thirteen year old where McCormick actually picked the student
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up and brought him to a location where she was
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building a new house. And that will the premise, let's
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go see my new house I'm building now. According to
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the affidavit which I am quoting here, The affidavit says, quote,
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the student told the officer that they started kissing, and
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she gave him a blowjob. And then it says which
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the student described as quote sucking his dick, exactly what
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it says in the affidavit. And another thing that is
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worth noting her father was also a teacher in the
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same school district, not at the same school, but the
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same district. Now, how embarrassing was this for her poor father,
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who probably knew every teacher in the district. I'm sure
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probably taught forever. I mean, you just can't imagine the
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embarrassment not only your husband and your daughter if she's
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old enough at that time to understand, but your father.
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So time passes, and initially McCormick was going to go
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to trial. She was going to fight this thing because
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she was innocent, right. However, once she discovered all this
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evidence that the police had. They didn't just have the
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statement from this kid. They had pictures, they had videos,
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they had text all these things she thought she had deleted.
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She ends up doing what they all do. She got
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the pleate and on July thirteenth of twenty fifteen, Mary
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Faith McCormick, who at this time is thirty three. She
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pleaded guilty to sexual assault in the first degree, which
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is a Class A felony, and in Arkansas that was
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punishable with a prison sentence ranging from six to thirty years. Now,
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prosecutors agreed to reduce the charge from rape to sexual
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assault as part of that plea agreement. McCormick told the
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judge that she had not been coerced into accepting that
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plea offer, and she also understood that she was waiving
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her rights to a jury trial and an appeal. The
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judge accepted that plea agreement as well as her guilty plea,
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and there were three conditions that McCormick had to abide
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by until her sentencing. One she must show up for
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her sentencing. Two she can't commit any other criminal acts,
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and three she could not have any contact with the victim.
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And the judge warned McCormick that if she violated any
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of the three conditions, it could avoid the plea agreement
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altogether and the guilty plea would still stand and then
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she would be sentenced, likely to the maximum by the judge.
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So on July thirtieth of twenty fifteen, Mary McCormick appeared
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in court for her sentencing, and the court read a
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statement from the boy's mother. These are victim impact statements.
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According to that statement, it read, there are no words
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fitting to describe the pain and sorrow my whole family
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has suffered this past year. We as a family have
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barely weathered through this storm. Although we see small bits
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of light at the end of this storm, our hearts
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are broken and our spirits are weary. The family had
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to close its business and move to another town because
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of the harassment and negativity. McCormick's crime brought and the
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court said the mother felt like she was responsible for
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leaving the gate open for quote the wolf to attack
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her young, innocent sheep. The mother said, I have sent
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my child into the public school system forever six years,
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not ever believing or thinking that one day his very
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own teacher, of whom we should trust, would be the
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wolf that would prey upon him. My son was a
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four point zero student, an amazing athlete, but was robbed
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of his childhood. And that was the mother statement. So
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the sentencing occurs and McCormick is sentenced to eight years
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in the Arkansas Department of Corrections and according to her sentencing,
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she would have to serve at least two years before
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she would be eligible for parole. She must abide by
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a suspended sentence agreement for twelve years after her release
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from present, and she would be required to register as
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a sex offender when she is released. She must also
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complete the prison sex Offender Treatment program after her release
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from prison, and McCormick was ordered not to have any
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contact with that team or any witnesses in the case.
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She was also ordered to not have any unsupervised contact
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with any minors except her biological children. So I say
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all that to say that you talk about an easy
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sentence in my opinion, she squerews this thirteen year old
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thirteen years old twice and is eligible for parole in
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two years. WTF as expected. Two years later, she indeed
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goes up for a parole hearing. This was on January
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twelfth of twenty seventeen, but surprisingly considering my experience covering
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these cases, it was denied. Then in January of twenty nineteen,
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she's up for parole again. Now this is less than
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four years after the incident, and she pens this letter
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to the court, which I have the actual letter in
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her hand, running in front of me, and it says
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I'm writing to see if you would run my court
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fees and finds cocurrent to the time I observed, I
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was locked up in Benton County from July thirty until
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August twenty eighth, twenty fifteen. I have been at McPherson
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unit from August twenty fifteen to the current time. Since
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I've been here, I've accomplished many things. I took a