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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 another episode of Bad Teachers. Now, every now and
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then I come across cases that are so difficult to imagine.
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Just the sheer stupidity of some of these bad teachers.
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It absolutely blows my mind. In today's episode will definitely
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qualify Wait till you hear this one. And I'm going
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to start off by taking you to June tenth of
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twenty twenty, and I'm going to tell you about a
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high school music teacher by the name of Jonathan Priano.
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And it was on that day that this music teacher
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from New Wilmington, Pennsylvania would be arrested in face two
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counts of unlawful contact with a minor, ten counts of
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institution tutional sexual assault, two counts of corruption of minors,
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and two counts of endangering the welfare of children. Now,
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in this case, a lot of personal information would come
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out regarding this bad teacher, including his tickling fetish, which
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we're going to talk about. So let's get into it.
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And to tell you a little bit about Jonathan Priano,
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who went by the name Johnny. He was the band
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director for Wilmington, Pennsylvania Area High School. He was thirty
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five years old at the time that these chargers came out,
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and at this point in his career, he had been
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a music teacher for thirteen years, having started right out
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of college, and he was well respected, really looked at
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as an amazing band director. That is, of course, until
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all of this came out. So in the criminal complaint,
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it states that the police in the school received a
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report that he had used his position at the school
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district as the choir director to build personal relationships with
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those attending his classes, and that he would continue to
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contact these students even after they graduated from high school.
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As a matter of fact, according to the affidavit, he
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attempted to date several individual students just shortly after their graduation,
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but he didn't just limit this to students that graduated
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as a matter of fact. The affidavid also accuses Priano
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of having unlawful contact with two minors, and that he
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had physical contact with one of the victims ten or
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more times while they were still students. The encounters occurred
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at the high school and at Priano's former residents now.
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One of the two victims he was charged with was
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a seventeen year old girl who described for investigators that
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Priano engage in what she turned as a foot tickling
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fetish with her. The two would exchange private Facebook messages
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and she said that in those messages it was mainly
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a friendship that started to blossom and then it turned
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into more, she said. In one of the messages, Priano
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stated that, quote the good Christian boy is only a
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persona I wear at school. So he gets booked on
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these charges and his bond is set at thirty thousand dollars.
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He posts that, and of course after that more information
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comes out, including more of those Facebook messages. Another student
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in Priano also communicated, and Johnny would comment about the
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heels that the student would wear during the school year.
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So police they do what they do. They're garnering evidence
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and eventually this case would get a court in more
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details on these tickling sessions would come out. This was
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on March eighth of twenty twenty two, when a former
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student describes in court how her music teacher would engage
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her in those sessions, which she said they would playfully
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refer to as quote rehearsals. She said the meetings at
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times would become like play acting, and he would duct
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tape her leg to the wall and he would act
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like he was a spy. She told of one particular
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instance where she had bruises on her leg from it,
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and went on to say that it was one of
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his favorite games. She also said sometimes she could feel
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that he was aroused. Now, this woman at this time
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is twenty five, and she said those acts activity started
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when she was sixteen, continued throughout her junior and senior
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years of high school, through her graduation while she was
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still seventeen. She said they continued through her first year
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of college when she turned eighteen, because Priano was actually
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attending some classes at that college. So at this point, y'all,
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he's facing twenty six criminal charges, ten counts of institutional
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sexual assault, of unlawful contact with minors, twelve counts of
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corruption of minors, and two counts of endangering the welfare
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of children. And this former stendant would testify at what's
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known as a pre trial hearing, which really is just
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a hearing design to determine if there's enough evidence to
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proceed in a case and why it took so long.
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I'm not really sure, but this is nearly two years
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after he was arrested. Now he was arrested in twenty twenty.
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So I assumed COVID played a big part in why
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it kind of drug on this case. But there you
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have it now. After she testified and left the stand,
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they concluded court that day, and they scheduled a later
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date to allow for more testimony because two other victims
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were scheduled to testify. And they also mentioned at this
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pre trial hearing that they would be presenting some electronic evidence,
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which I assume would be text pictures, vineos, etc. At
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a follow up hearing. And I want to mention that
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the former student that testified also testified that she had
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known Priano since she was in sixth grade when he
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was first hired as a teacher, and that their relationship
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developed when she got into the ninth grade and joined
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the choir at the high school. She said when she
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was a junior, they became quote super close. She said
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a classmate had died and they would send texts back
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and forth on messenger, etc. And he was grooming her
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right she was going through a tough time. This classmate
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had passed away. And he was making her feel like
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everything was going to be fine and I'm here for you.
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And then the most despicable part to me occurs when
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the night of the funeral, they're texting back and forth
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the funeral for her friend, her classmate who had died,
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and of course grooming right, he says, why don't you
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meet me at my car and she does that, and
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she said they got in the back seat and he
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instructed her to take off her shoe. He then lifted
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up her leg into his lap and started tickling the
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arch of her foot. She stated it was kind of uncomfortable,
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and she added that her foot was close to his penis.
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She said after that, they hugged and she went home.
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She also said those encounters continued and he would invite
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her to his apartment. They would watch movies and have food,
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and she said quote he did more of the tickling
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in his apartment. She said that it started to develop
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into what they called rehearsal, stating he created different skits
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and he would use different objects to tickle her. She
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said that Priano would specify what type of shoes that
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she should wear, such as black flats or heels, and
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she went on to say he would act out tickling
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using a toothbrush of feather his fingers, and that he
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would record it. She said there were a few instances
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where he would put his hand up her shirt and
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touched the bottom part of her brail are in her
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waistline quote, we always did something every time we went
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to his apartment. She said there was no sexual activity
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involved outside of that. She also testified that the encounter
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would happen during school hours while Priano was teaching middle
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school choir and she was in high school. She said
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she would spend her study halls at his desk inside
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a closet in the middle school choir room, and he
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would go in there and he would talk to her
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and engage in tickling, and at times he would prop
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her against the door and move his hands up and
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down her torso under her shirt. And she added that
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the closet encounters happened at least two or three times
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a week. She said there were a couple of occasions
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where he would meet up at band camp and tickle
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her as well. And this young lady said she was
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introverted in school and although she was uncomfortable with what
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was going on, she didn't want to lose the connection
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with her teacher quote, I felt like he made me
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feel kind of guilty, like I was being the worst
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of the two in leading him on. The students said
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she never told anyone about the encounters, not her parents,
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not even her friends, but decided to open up about
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it when she was contacted by another former student who
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had said it also happened to her, and she discovered
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she was not the only victim. So one of the
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other students went to the DA's office about it. A
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detective met with her and she told her story and
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she said, that's how it all started for me, and
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she admitted she had a crush on Priano, but she
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had said they never kissed. Now, another thing that was
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found out during this pre trial hearing was that the
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DA actually offered Priano a plea agreement and they were
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going to drop two of the charges, including a felony,
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as part of that agreement. So he accepted it initially
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and had that sentence been carried out, it was an
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agreement of six to twenty three and a half months
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in jail, followed by two years of probation and fifteen
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years on the sex offender registry. But he then renegged
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on that offer and the DA withdrew it because the
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victim agreed to take the stand. And a lot of
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times when they do these plea agreements in sex cases
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of any type, it's because they're trying to avoid the
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victims having to releve all this shit. Well, if the
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victim agrees to take the stand and testify, you don't
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need the plea agreement, And we're going to move to
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August twenty fourth of twenty twenty two. And as I mentioned,
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another victim testified as well as Jonathan's former wife, who
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divorced him after all this stuff came out for obvious reasons.
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And the first was the student who testified that Jonathan
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would invite her to his house, put her foot in
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his lap, and took on her foot until he became
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a rouse. Sound familiar, right. She said the events happened
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at least twice when she was seventeen. Now, in this case,
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the devents argued that because the laws in Pennsylvania allowed
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anyone over the age of sixteen to have consensual sex,
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that Jonathan didn't do anything wrong. And in this particular case,
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the alleged victim was thirty years old by the time
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of her testimony, she said the encounters took place within
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a month of her eighteenth birthday, and she said she
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was in the high school choir and Priana was her
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instructor for three years, and she said they had a
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friendly relationship that she trusted and looked up to him.
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She also said they tended the same church and at
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some point he invited her to be his friend on Facebook.
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She accepted that and at first their conversations were fairly innocent.
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And it was also at that point they started texting
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each other via cell phone. Now, if you notice, everything
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is almost identical to that first victim as far as
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how this guy was grooming her. He started off with messages.
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He started off hitting her up on Facebook. Typical shit, right,
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she said. After her graduation, he texted her about quote
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turn on spots and said that he was quote interested
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in the idea of feet and he would like to
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show her the pleasure of that. He invited her to
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his apartment. She met him in the parking lot of
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the building and he said he wanted to put her
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foot in his lap, so he positioned it over his
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penis area and started to tickle her foot. She said
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it was at that point she could definitely feel him
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getting aroused. She said after that, the same thing would
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happen more commonly. She said when they were watching movies
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together as an apartment, it would happen quite often. She
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also said at one point he asked her to wear
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high heels, which she normally didn't wear, but she complied,
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and she said his finger would slide inside her shoe
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and under her foot to tickle her while her foot
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was in his lap. He then suggested he use a
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feather duster to tickle her. He also suggested tying her
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up and playing quote spy and tickling her to get
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information out of her, but she said that never happened now.
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After that, his former wife took the stand and she
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said the relationship started in a similar way. She said
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that she was also in the music field, and her
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music teachers suggested she contact pre to write music for
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a performance that she had. His ex wife said they
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met for the first time at what is known in
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the area as Newcastle Playhouse, and she said that was
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in twenty ten and that may he started talking to
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her about her feet. She added she was sixteen at
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the time. Eventually he started asking her to take pictures
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and videos of her and her feet, and when she
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was seventeen, he took her to church with him. Afterward,
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they went to his apartment where he did the same thing,
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put her foot in his life by his penis and
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started tickling her. She said she could tell he was
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aroused when her foot was in his lap and he
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was breathing very heavily. She even said, quote, I could
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see that his pants were wet unquote. She said when
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she turned eighteen, he started filming things and that she
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also had bare intact with her feet in his bare
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private areas. Now it didn't say how much older he
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was than her, but they didn't get married. This was
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in twenty fourteen, and they subsequently had two children, so
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I don't think he was much older than her. But
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even at assuming he was a very young age at
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that point, maybe just a year or two older than her.