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April 29, 2025

Bad Teachers: Heather Robertson & Stephanie Peterson

Bad Teachers: Heather Robertson & Stephanie Peterson

Jim Chapman explores the exploits of Texas Bad Teacher Heather Robertson and Florida Bad Teacher Stephanie Peterson whose relationships with students led to serious consequences.

#badteachers #heatherrobertson #stephaniepeterson #exposed #podcast...

Jim Chapman explores the exploits of Texas Bad Teacher Heather Robertson and Florida Bad Teacher Stephanie Peterson whose relationships with students led to serious consequences.

#badteachers #heatherrobertson #stephaniepeterson #exposed #podcast

Chapters
00:03 Scandalous Teachers
03:22 Arrest of Heather Robertson
10:46 Transition to Daytona Beach, Florida
11:33 The Case of Stephanie Peterson
22:59 The Investigation Unfolds
26:36 Sentencing of Stephanie Peterson
29:39 Where Are They Now?

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Hey everyone, and welcome back to Exposed Scandalous Files of

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the Elite. I'm your host, Jim Chapman, and we're back

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with a double episode of Bad Teachers. And today this

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episode is going to be a little bit different and

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you'll figure out why as we get into it. But

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I'm going to take you to Lufkin, Texas, and I'll

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tell you about a now former special needs kindergarten teacher

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by the name of Heather Robertson.

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And we're going to go to April.

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Twenty second of twenty seventeen and a Lufkin police officer

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arrests this teacher on warrants of having an inappropriate relationship

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between an educator and a student. Heather Robertson was actually

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pulled over in her vehicle and that warrant was served

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right there on the street, so she goes to jail.

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Now.

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According to the arrest warrant, police received information that Robertson

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had possibly been sexually involved with several high school students,

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and after obtaining a list of students who were possibly

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sexually involved with Robertson, police began to question those students. Now,

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one of the students told police that he and Robertson

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began chatting and sexting Quote on Snapchat shortly after spring break.

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At some point, Robertson reportedly asked him to come over

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to her apartment to have sex. The boy then told

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Robertson that a friend was with him, and he asked

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if it was okay if his friend went with him

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to her house, and she said.

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Oh, that's fine.

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The boys then said when they arrived at the apartment,

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Robertson was lying on the couch vaping, So after speaking

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with the boys for a few minutes, Robertson told them

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to follow her into her bedroom, where she began to

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take off her clothes for having sex with both students

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at the same time. The boys then told police that

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there were two other students who possibly had been sexually

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involved with Robertson. So police then spoke with those two

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other students and they coroborated everything the original students had said.

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They also said they had sex with her at her

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apartment on multiple occasions. One of the boys told police

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he would sneak out of his house and Robinson would

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pick him up and take him to her apartment. He

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said he and Robertson Quote somehow became friends on Snapchat,

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and that at some point she sent him a message

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asking if he and another student would like to hang out.

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He said Robertson picked him up and his friend. It

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was late at night, she took them over to her apartment,

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and she had sex with them. He also told police

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he had sex with Robertson on two or three other occasions.

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The boys friend told police he had sex with Robertson twice,

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but he could not remember the exact dates. So four

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students in total came forward. And it's important to mention

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she was an elementary school teacher, but the students didn't

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go to school where she taught. They were high school students.

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It didn't make it much better, but I didn't want

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anyone to assume these were kindergarteners. And it's especially important

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to note that in Texas they have a law where

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if you're a teacher, you can't just randomly have sex

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with students, even if they're not your own students, even

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if they're eighteen, if they're in high school and they're students,

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there's laws against that in Texas. And I don't know

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if I've told her age yet, but Heather Robertson at

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this point is thirty eight years old. So once police

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get all this information about her, they interview Robertson after

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they served that warrant and arrested her in her car,

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and she admitted to picking the boys up. She admitted

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to taking them to her apartment where they had sex,

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and she admitted that one particular student she had sex

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with on four occasions. She said the first sexual encounter

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occurred in late twenty sixteen. Now keep in mind this

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is twenty seventeen when she was arrested, so she says

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that particular student she had sex with just a few

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weeks before she was arrested. She also admitting to have

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sex with two students at the same time, so obviously

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the original two boys that reported this were telling the truth,

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but she said it was only one time that she

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was sexually involved with both boys at the same time,

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as if that makes it any better. She went on

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to tell the police she did not require the boys

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to use a condom because quote she was no longer

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able to have children. She also stated she recently became

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a heavy drinker and would sometimes forget the details of

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the sexual encounters. She also said she had instructed the

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boys not to tell anyone because she would quote get

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in trouble. So obviously, twenty seventeen is a bad freaking

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year for Robinson, but it was bad before this arrest

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took place in March of twenty seventeen, which was a

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month prior to her arrest for this sexual contact with students.

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She was arrested for DWI. Not a good year for her. Now,

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the school superintendent, mary An Whittaker said, quote, we acted

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immediately and began our investigation. We pursued the correct protocol

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we have to follow, and we accepted the resignation of

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the teacher. And y'all, Robinson wasn't a brand new teacher.

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As a matter of fact, she had been a teacher

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for seventeen years prior to this arrest, and she was

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looking at up to twenty years in for messing with

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these four boys should she be found guilty. So a

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couple of weeks after her ar rest on May fourth

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of twenty seventeen, it just gets worse for Heather Robinson.

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Two additional charges of improper relationships between an educator and

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a student were filed, so that brought her charges at

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this point up to six sexual assaults in total. So

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in an Affidavid with those additional charges listed, a boy

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came forward and said he had sex with Robertson in

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her apartment the day before Thanksgiving, and he said afterwards

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Robertson drive him home. And the second Affidavid also alleged

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that Robertson had sex with another boy on numerous occasions

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in her vehicle and at her apartment. Now it's important

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to know when these and the other chargers came out.

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Heather Robertson was still in jail. Her bail, which was

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originally set at at six hundred thousand dollars, she apparently

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could not pay. So on May seventeenth, she applies for

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a ball reduction through her attorney, and her attorney argued

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that the current bail amount was in his mind, excessive

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and beyond the financial means of Heather Robertson, and he

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stated that the bell amount violated Robertson's eighth and fourteenth

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Amendment rights for fair due process against cruel and unusual punishment.

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And I want to note here that Heather Robertson was arrested,

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but she wasn't indicted yet by a grand jury. And

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let me explain how that works. Sometimes prosecutors they're not

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sure if they have enough evidence on a case, so

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they will convene a grand jury before they even arrest somebody,

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and they'll present evidence. In these grand juries, they convene

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in secret, and they'll either give what's known as a

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true bill indictment or a no bill. A true bill indictment,

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there's enough evidence to proceed forward and that that grand

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jury found reasonable cause to find a person guilty. If

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it's a no bill, it's like a not guilty jury finding.

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You can still arrust them, you can still take them

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to court, et cetera. But it's a good indication on

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if they'll be found guilty in a court of law. Now,

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in this case, I guess they felt confident with their evidence,

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so they didn't seek out the services of a grand

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jury prior to arresting her. But they did convene a

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grand jury, and that grand jury returned twenty one indictments

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against Heather Roberts. And this was on June twenty ninth

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of twenty seventeen. And I'm not going to go through

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all twenty one of these charges. They're all related to

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sex with these high school kids and I got to

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say one thing about Lufkin, Texas, and that's that the

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wills of justice turn pretty damn fast there. On September two,

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twenty eighth of twenty seventeen, as all these teachers pretty

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much do that, screw these students that I've covered in

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the past, when there's a ton of evidence against them,

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she cops a deal and she pleaded guilty to these charges. Now,

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as part of that agreement, the at this point, thirty

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nine year old Heather Lee Robertson, she would have to surrender,

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obviously her teaching certification, she would have to register as

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a sex offender for the rest of her life, and

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she ended up with ten years in state prison, which

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is no cake walk, right, but she was facing two

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hundred and forty years in prison if she would have

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been convicted on all accounts, And the district attorney was

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quoted as saying, teachers are trusted with our most valuable

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and most precious asset every day, and when they destroy

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that trust, they will be held accountable for their betrayal.

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They will face significant punishment. And I gotta say they

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moved swiftly on this one, and that is significant a

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punishment compared to what we normally hear say, she goes

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to prison for that. And remember I told you she

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had already been arrested for DWI just the month prior

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to her arrest for these sex crimes. Well, on October

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thirteenth of twenty seventeen, she showed up for court on

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that DWI charge and she pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated,

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and that tacked a little bit of time onto her sentence.

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But essentially, Heather Robertson, She's going to spend ten years

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in jail. A pretty wild story, and I wanted to

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include it today because this is someone who actually got

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some significant time. So shout out to Lufkin, Texas, and

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I'm going to bring you another one today. I'm gonna

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actually take you to Daytona Beach, Florida. And y'all know

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Daytona Beach. It's known for a lot of things.

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Used to be a.

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Huge destination back in my and it has beautiful beaches,

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really big tourist spot. But in twenty eighteen it became

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famous for another reason, and that is a bad teacher

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by the name of Stephanie Peterson. And that's who I'm

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going to tell you about today.

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And I can't tell this story.

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Without describing Stephanie because her looks play a huge key

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in the sentence that she received in my opinion, and

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I'll get into that. But beautiful girl, straight, long, dark hair,

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very in shape. And at the time of her arrest,

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this case went absolutely viral all over the social media,

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all over the internet because of how beautiful Stephanie Peterson

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is now. At the time she got arrested, she was

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twenty six years old.

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So we're going to go to February.

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Twenty eighth of twenty eighteen, and detectives get a call

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and they respond to the home of a fourteen year

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old still it. When detectives get there, his mother. She

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has quite the story to tell these detectives. And it's

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a little bit different than how some of these bad

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teachers get caught in the act. In this case, the

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student's mother she's looking for a tutor. A teacher reached

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out and said, hey, I can be a tutor for

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your son. And of course, while she's doing this, the

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son happens to be in the room and she's on

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the phone with the teacher and she jokingly said, according

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to the mother, that she told the lady as long

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as I don't have to worry about you molesting him. Now,

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that might seem like a weird comment to make, but

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in Florida during this timeframe, there were a lot of

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teachers getting caught with students and it was all over

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the news in the state of Florida. This woman was,

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what she thought, making a joke about this. As soon

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as she says that, her son pipes up and says,

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anybody can molest you. And when she gets off the phone,

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she inquires about what he meant by that comment, and

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according to his mother, her son started crying and confesses

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to sex with his teacher, Stephanie Peterson, who, as I said,

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was twenty six years old and he's fourteen. So detective

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speak with this student and according to the student, and incidentally,

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when this was all occurring, he was in eighth grade.

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He tells detectives that Peterson would send him nude photos

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on Snapchat. He said this went on for a little while,

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and then she started coming to his home late at night,

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around eleven PM on several occasions, and then she bring

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him back after having sex with him at around one

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or two am. So this kid was sneaking out of

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his house, and this teacher was facilitating it. Now, could

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you imagine finding out your son is not in his

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room late at night. What are you just going there

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to check on him? He's not there, You're freaking out.

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You call police, My son's missing, and the whole time

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he's with this twenty six year old.

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Teacher having sex.

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What a nightmare. Now, his mother never actually caught him

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doing that, sneaking out, But think of how easily that

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could have happened, in the fear that would have created

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for that family with their sons just gone from his room.

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The victim went on to tell police that in addition

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to all of that, she also bought him marijuana and

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bowls for smoking that marijuana. And totally consistent with just

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about every case I cover, Peterson told him that he

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could not tell anyone about their relationship or they would

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both get in trouble. And that's important because number one,

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it takes away the entire defense that a person might

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try to use saying I didn't know what I was

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doing was wrong. And number two, it's a huge grooming

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technique that is used by almost anyone who takes advantage

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of children. They try to act like the child's going

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to be in trouble along with them, and that's how

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they keep them quiet. So if you have kids, have

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that conversation and tell them if anybody ever touches you inappropriately,

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you're not going to get in trouble, because, believe it

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or not, a lot of children buy that whole deal,

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hook line and sinker. So police hear this story and

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then they go to Peterson, they take her into custody,

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they interview her. After the interview, she is booked into

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jail with a twenty five thousand dollars bond and that's

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where she sat until her bail hearing. And something really

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crazy happens as this bail hearing, and it never ceases

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to amaze me as to why this problem even exists, honestly,

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and that is at her bail, her attorney he wants

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to get her bail reduced, which that's what they do.

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I get that you're defending a client and that's in

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your client's best interests, but in almost all cases it

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seems like judges side with the accused rather than the victims.

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And minutes later, the judge reduces her bill in half

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from twenty five thousand dollars to twelve five hundred dollars

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after this science teacher is accused of having sex with

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this fourteen year old multiple times. And this fourteen year

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old was in middle school. And it leaves no doubt

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as to why these teacher student relationships are such a

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fucking problem these days. And it was at that Baill

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hearing that her attorney argued that she posted no danger

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to society, She was not a flight risk and that

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should you know, basically, boom and basically that's why she

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should have this bail reduction, et cetera. And while all

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that may be true, I mean, there should be some

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sort of ramification for molesting kids, don't you think now.

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In one of the articles that I read while researching

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this case, I want to just quote one paragraph to

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you that I find interesting. It said during the first

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appearance that she had in court, she was dressed in

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an orange jumpsuit. She looked pale in her appearance, aside

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from her long, dark blue painted fingernails, were significantly different

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from the photographs of her that were widely viewed once

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news stories of her arrest were posted on the web.

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Those viral images were taken from her Facebook page, which

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was removed from public view shortly after. And why I

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bring that up is it indicates that she was embarrassed

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and shamed for all of this, and I say good

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for her. I'm glad she fell ashamed. She should have

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felt ashamed. But I'll share some of those pictures with

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the Patroon celebrity members on Patroon, so look for those.

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And some more information came out at that Baill hearing.

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Sheriff's deputies mentioned that some of the encounters that they

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had took place at her house while her husband was

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at work. Her husband was a firefighter. Some of the

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sex took place in a barn behind his parents' home,

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and some of the sex took place in the teen's

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parents' driveway. Could you imagine you're looking for your son,

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you open the front door and he's in a car

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having sex with his teacher. Crazy And it should come

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as no surprise that her husband filed for divorce, you know,

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right after she gets bond for all this. Detectives also

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said they obtained provocative photos of Peterson which had been

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sent to the teen, and her attorney argued that her

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mission her statements that she admitted to police when they

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interviewed her, that those statements were obtained illegally, which I

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can only surmise that he's accusing police of not riding

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her her miranda rights, which is likely bullshit. But all

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that being said, she did get bail in the amount

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of twelve five hundred dollars. You only put up ten

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percent of that, so she put up like twelve hundred bucks.

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She gets out of jail for having sex with this kid. Ridiculous,

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And the sheriff was quoted as saying, I think it's

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a good place for her, meaning jail. You play them

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with drugs, and you're in a position of power, and

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you tell them, don't tell anybody because we're gonna get

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in trouble. I'm going to make you the teacher's aid,

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and all of these sort of things she was telling

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this kid. Basically, the childhood was stolen from this young man.

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And it was on April twelfth of twenty eighteen that

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she actually gets formally charged. And in those formal charges,

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they included two counts of lewde and lavicious battery sex

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with a victim twelve or older but less than sixteen,

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and each of those are a second degree felony punished

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by up to fifteen years in prison, and she was

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also charged with transmission of material harmful to minors by

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electronic device. That's a third degree felony punishable by up

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to five years in prison.

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Count one accused Peterson of unlawfully having sexual intercourse with

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the teenager between November one of twenty seventeen and January

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thirty first of twenty eighteen, so this went on for

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quite a little while. Count two accused Peterson of performing

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oral sex on the teenager between November first of twenty

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seventeen and January thirty first of twenty eighteen, and Count

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three accused Peterson of transmitting harmful information or images to

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the miner between November first of twenty seventeen and January

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thirty first of twenty eighteen. Peterson was also accused of

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sending the fourteen year old boy nude photos of so

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By October thirteenth of twenty eighteen, more details came out

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and it was discovered the fourteen year old student had

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actually told police the teacher had contacted him on Snapchat

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and told him to delete everything and right she didn't

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know where her brain was. She added, it was the

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worst decision of her life. Now, among the records provided

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on those snapchat messages, they show Peterson panicking when she

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learned the fourteen year old's mother was going to call police.

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The messages she wrote include quote, so she's planning on

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doing something with it unquote. She continued on saying, I

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hate you so much. Please tell her it was the

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worst decision of my life. And I know it was bad.

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I don't know where my brain was, but somehow I

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fell in love with you briefly and I don't know why,

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and I'll never be the same person because of it.

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It Then get this, she continues messaging the student, and

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she says should I call her, meaning the student's mother,

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which I can only imagine how that fucking conversation would

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have went.

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At least I know how it would have went in

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my household.

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And the final message she sent was please delete everything.

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So in these messages, this twenty six year old teacher

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is saying she's in love with a fourteen year old

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wt F Now. Information also came out that investigators talked

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to two other students about whether Peterson had any inappropriate

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relationships with them.

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One of those students said.

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Nothing inappropriate ever happened. The other student, which was a

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thirteen year old said there was no physical contact, but

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the teacher had sent him naked pictures on Snapchat. Said

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police confiscated his phone, but they couldnot find any naked pickure,

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so if it just wasn't any evidence there to charge

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her with anything.

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However, they did find.

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Some weird messages that were exchanged back and forth between

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Peterson and that thirteen year old.

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There was no direct talk.

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Of sex in those messages, but there was some strange

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things that were discussed. I'll read them to you, Peterson

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said to the thirteen year old, quote, I should not

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have said any of that last night. I'm sorry, And

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a thirteen year old responded with it's fine, miss p

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and continue with why are you sorry, laugh out loud.

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Peterson responded with because I shouldn't have said anything, And

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a few texts later, that thirteen year old said I

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won't tell anyone, but he doesn't specify what he won't

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tell anyone. He just said I have it and I'm

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not going to tell anybody. So Peterson responds to that with, quote,

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I'm not upset. I just don't want to hurt you

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or do anything to get us in trouble. So it's

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easy to a pine that there may have been some

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talking about inappropriate things, but there's just not enough evidence

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and the student wasn't admitting to it. And it's also

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interesting to point out that it was at this time

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that the public found out that Stephanie Peterson's father was

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actually an attorney in the area, and I'm sure that helped.

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And there were a lot more.

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Details on contact she had with that fourteen year old

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that came out. Apparently, Stephanie Peterson had sent him a

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picture of a woman's vagina on Snapchat, as well as

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a picture of her naked taking a shower with her

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face completely visible in the photo, so she couldn't deny it.

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It was also discovered that the teen told investigators the

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situation started after Peterson let him use her smartphone so

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he could log into her Instagram account to check his messages,

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but he forgot to log out of it, and later

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that night, she gets home, opens up her phone, she

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sees the Instagram is actually his Instagram and she sends

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him a message through his own Instagram account and that's

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how they started communicating. From there, they went to Snapchat

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and that's where the photos started. Through that they decided

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to meet up, and she drove to his house. One night,

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he sneaked out to her car and they had sex

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right there in his driveway in her car. The student

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also said she gave him oral sex on her couch

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in her house and twice in the barn behind his house.

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Peterson had also asked him to have sexual intercourse with

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her two other times, but he said he'd turned that

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down because he didn't have condoms. And sadly, it was

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also discovered that the teen admitted to Peterson taking his virginity.

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So for all these charges and all this evidence that

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police had gathered, what do you think happened? Well, you've

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listened to bad teachers enough to figure out this one.

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On October seventeenth of twenty eighteen, she cut a deal

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and she pleaded guilty to having sex with that fourteen

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year old student, and she pleaded guilty to sending him

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those photos, and as part of that deal, prosecutors dropped

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that second count of sexual battery, so she awaited her sentencing.

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That sentencing did occur, This was on December nineteenth of

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twenty eighteen, and she was sentenced to three years in prison,

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followed by two years of community control, which is basically

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House era same thing, and she must register as a

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sex offender for the rest of her life. And it

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was at this sentencing that Peterson took the stand and

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she read a statement, and her statements said, quote, I

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wish I could make it clear how sorry I am

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for what occurred. If I could say one thing to

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the victim, it would be that I'm sorry, two words

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that are used too often without much meaning. But I

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can honestly say with everything in my heart that I

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mean it to its truest definition. It's a huge misfortune

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what has happened, and I hope I'll be able to

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make things right by staying on medication and attending regular therapy.

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And she went on to say she knew her actions

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were unforgivable. Teaching was the most meaningful thing in my life,

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and it's all I ever wanted to do growing up,

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and knowing that I was in a position of power

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and misusing that power to negatively influence another person's life

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is a morbid thought. I have to think about it

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all day, every day, and it's the last part that

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gets me.

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She ended that.

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Statement with, I have to think about it all day

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every day, not the victim has to think about it

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every day. It's all about her now. The victim's mother,

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she was not happy at all about this three year sentence.

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She actually took the stand at the sentencing and called

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for Peterson to be sent to prison for the maximum

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that she could get for cutting a deal. She said

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her previously funny, lighthearted son has grown to reserve the angry.

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She said he's now in high school where some students

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tease him about having sex with his teacher. And she

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said Peterson should not get any breaks because she was

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a woman and she's beautiful. The sexual abuse afflicted on

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him by someone he trusted and liked so much has

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left him hardened. His mother said he is now untrustworthy

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of new people and even old friends. A psychologist testified

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earlier in the sentencing hearing that Peterson was in the

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midst of a mannic attack when she had sex with

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a fourteen year old, and that she was disgusted when

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she realized what she had done. Really well, you did

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it more than once. She also said Peterson told her quote,

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I'm supposed to protect children, not to her them. She

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also said Peterson's motivation for having sex with a student

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had little to do with sexual gratification and a lot

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to do with looking for attention and manifestations of delusional behavior.

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I strongly feel there's a very low risk Miss Peterson

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would pose to ever re offend. Now, Peterson's mother also

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took the stand. She said she was so very sorry

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for her daughter's actions, and her daughter was remorseful. And look,

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there's victims on both sides of these things. I'm sure

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her mother was completely and utterly mortified over what her

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daughter did. So where's she at today, Well, she's out

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of jail. She was released in twenty twenty one, and

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I looked up her sex offender registry. She still lives

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in Florida. And it's really interesting on that registry that

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they have a victim information section and there's a block

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and it says the victim was a male and a minor.

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But then underneath it it has another block and it

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says victim unknown gender male. I've just never seen that

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before on sex offender registries.

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Just struck me as strange.

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Maybe one of you out there knows why that is,

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but there you have it. Bad teacher Stephanie Peterson. And

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as I tell you all the time, you want to

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know why these things continue to the extent that they do.

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And this teacher had sex numerous times and ends up

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with only three years in jail. Stephanie Peterson is.

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A good example of that.

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She got off way too easy, in my opinion, and

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I'm telling you a lot of it was her luks.

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She just didn't look like the type of person that

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