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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,