March 23, 2026

Bad Teachers: North Carolina

Bad Teachers: North Carolina
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Jim brings you the stories of (2) Bad Teachers from the State of North Carolina that were arrested and convicted of having inappropriate relationships with students.

Jessica Greene: Moxville, North Carolina
Erin McAuliffe: Rocky Mount, North Carolina
Elizabeth Bailey: Statesville, North Carolina

Chapters:
10:30 The Case of Jessica Greene
11:05 Introducing: 18 Minutes
14:08 Erin McAuliffe's Downfall
20:16 Elizabeth Bailey's Troubling Case
28:19 North Carolina's Consequences Scale

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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 today I

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am continuing the Bad Teachers state specific series. Today I'm

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taking you to North Carolina, home of Michael Jordan by

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the way, and we're going to start in Moxville, North

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Carolina for this one.

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At Davy High School.

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When on November twenty ninth of twenty sixteen, and I

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want you to imagine this, a basketball game ends, the

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gym lights are still on, and parents are filing out

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and in the parking lot, some students notice something that

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stops them cold in their tracks when they see their teacher,

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Jessica Welch Green, a very attractive brunette twenty seven years old,

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absolutely locked in a passionate kiss with a seventeen year

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old male student.

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Not a hug, not.

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A friendly peck, though that of course would not be

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any more appropriate, but a full on, open mouth kiss

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right there in public. Now, this single moment would crack

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open one of the most disturbing teacher student sex cases

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in North Carolina history. So let's get into it, and

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I'm going to start in nineteen eighty nine in Forsyth County,

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North Carolina, where Jessica Green was born. She grew up

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in a very stable, supportive, church going family, and growing

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up she seemed like the all American girl. She was

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especially great with kids. During her teenage years, she was

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a babysitter. She was even a nanny for several people,

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and she gained a reputation for being responsible and trustworthy,

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a girl that was going places. Now after high school,

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she would attend and graduate from Salem College. This is

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in Winston Salem, North Carolina, and she was smart three

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point eight gpa upon her graduation. So in twenty fourteen,

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she gets married, and it's not what you would describe

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as a great marriage. She would say later in court

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records that the marriage would quickly become abusive. Her new

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husband had some pretty serious drug and alcohol issues and

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was both verbally and physically violent, she would allege. She said,

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he would use her as a punching bag. He would

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call her ugly, stupid, and although she would keep this

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abuse secret from most people, she was going through it

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at home, according to her. Now, in twenty fifteen, she

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has a young daughter, and according to Jessica, she struggled

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pretty hard after her pregnancy with postpartum depression.

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She also would.

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Mismanage her diabetes. She would lose a bunch of weight.

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She would completely isolate herself from people and appeared very depressed.

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Now by twenty sixteen, things would start looking up for her.

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She would land a job as an English.

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Teacher at Davy High School, and once she started there,

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she would quickly become one of the most popular teachers

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at that school.

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The students absolutely loved her.

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And her teaching style was very unique. She was very

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highly regarded from the staff as well. On paper, jess

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Ysica seemed like the perfect teacher that every parent would

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dream of. So everything explodes in November of twenty sixteen. Now,

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according to court documents, this is when the inappropriate contact starts.

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A seventeen year old boy, which I'm going to refer

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to as Student A, who was in Jessica's English class.

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They start texting.

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And texting a lot, and those texts quickly turn sexual,

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which would be proven later with screenshots. Then a physical

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relationship starts. The investigation would later document at least three

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separate acts of full on intercourse between the twenty seven

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year old teacher and the seventeen year old student. These

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instances would occur on school property in her car, and

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she would also later admit to performing oral sex on

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this sty at least twice. So, as I told you

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at the start of this one November twenty ninth, twenty

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sixteen would change everything for her when multiple students would

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catch her and this student making out in that basketball

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parking lot, and those students would immediately report what they

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saw to the school the SRO or school resource officer. Now,

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when the students reported this, they also reported that this

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seventeen year old teen had been bragging to them that

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he and Green were in a sexual relationship and had

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actually gone on dates together, both dinner dates and movie dates.

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They also told that SRO that the teen had been

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dating this teacher for only a couple of weeks, but

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had told these other students that he had sex with

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Jessica in her vehicle in the driveway of a house

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that was actually for sale. He had also told these

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other students that after graduation they planned to be together

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and get married. So, of course the SRO he reports

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all of this to the principal and an investigation officially starts.

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On December two of twenty sixteen. In that very same day,

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English teacher Jessica Green is suspended from teaching. Now the

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Davy County Sheriff's office, they move pretty fast. They start

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interviewing this seventeen year old student. The student admits to

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this relationship. He confirmed everything the students, the other students

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had already told the SRO of that school. And they

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also seize his phone which contained just a ton of

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evidence text messages, pictures, et cetera. So now it was

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time to talk to Jessica Green. And initially she denies

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intercourse with this student, but she does admit to performing

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oral sex on the student on two occasions, though she

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insisted it never happened on campus, although evidence.

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Police have recovered had said otherwise.

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So it is on December thirteenth of twenty sixteen that

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twenty seven year old Jessica Welch Green is arrested in

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charge with three counts of sexual activity with a student.

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And it's important to note that although the consent age

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in North Carolina is sixteen, the fact that she is

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a teacher and therefore a person of authority like a

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police officer or really anybody else in a position of

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authority over such a young person. It's what opened the

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door to these charges, so it didn't matter that he

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was consenting to all of this.

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She goes to.

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Jail, she bonds out on a fifteen thousand dollars bond,

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and it's not long before the news is just all

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over the state, then all over the country.

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On this one, everybody picks it up.

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So fast forward to September twenty fifth of twenty seventeen

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and Jessica Green, who is by this time twenty eight,

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She shows up to a hearing and she does what

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they all do.

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She took a plea deal.

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In her attorney's statement to the judge, he describes his

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client as very depressed, very unhappy, and very unlikely to reoffend.

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She then pleads no contests to the charges, and the

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judge sentences her to two years in prison, but he

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suspends that entire sentence. She gets thirty six months probation,

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and she must register as a sex offender for thirty

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years now. One interesting aspect of her sentence was that

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she would also have to consent to warrantless searches of

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her phone and computer devices for life. I'm not saying

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that's not deserving, but that's interesting. It's the first time

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I've seen that. I didn't even know that was a thing.

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To be honest, for the rest of her life, someone

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from the court or a police officer can just show

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up at her house and say, let me see your phone,

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and she's got to turn it over right there let

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them search it. She was also under a no contact

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order with anyone under the age of eighteen outside of

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her daughter, and that's pretty common when you get sentenced

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to these cases. But I mean, let's be honest, she

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got off pretty easy. But this story ain't over yet

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for Jessica Green because in twenty eighteen. In twenty nineteen,

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her probation officer caught her dropping her daughter off at

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a local dance studio and that violated the no contact

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under eighteen order because there were a lot of kids

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there under the age of eighteen. But even worse, it's

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discovered that Jessica had created sixteen social media accounts under

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aliases that she never reported to her probation officer as required,

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with some accounts being described as promiscuous activity. I don't

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know if that's an OnlyFans or something, but it doesn't

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really specify. I'm speculating there. This prompted the district attorney

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to say she was not taking her probation seriously. So

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in twenty twenty she ends up back in front of

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a judge and she gets sentenced to three months in

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jail for those violations. So that's her story. In October

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twenty nineteen, high ranking Livingston Parish Sheriff's Office deputy Dennis

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Perkins and his wife Cynthia were arrested and subsequently convicted

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of over one hundred and fifty sex crimes involving miners.

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During the investigation into these crimes, an eighteen minute video surfaced.

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This video would show Dennis Perkins and another woman, initially

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thought to be Cynthia, performing sex acts on a seemingly unconscious,

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unidentified female. Further investigation would reveal that the female performing

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those sex acts was a popular Livingston Parish realtor by

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the name of Melanie Carton. In twenty twenty, Curtin was arrested,

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and in December of twenty twenty one, curtain was convicted

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and sentenced to life in prison for aggravated rape plus

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five years for video voyeurism. However, in twenty twenty three,

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that case was thrown out after an appeals court ruled

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that not only did the evidence admitted unfairly prejudiced Melanie Curtain,

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but also ruled that evidence not allowed in during that

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trial prevented Curtain from mounting a proper defense.

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Despite this ruling.

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The Louisiana Attorney General's Office continued to pursue the case

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under reduced charges of third degree rape in video voyeurism.

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On March seventeenth, twenty twenty six, after a re trial

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on those reduced charges, Curtain was found not guilty unanimously

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by a twelve person jury.

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What happened in this case?

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How can a person go from being unanimously convicted to

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life in prison to being found not guilty just three

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years later unanimously by a jury in the same community.

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In this series, I will bring you inside the courtroom

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and cover the case exactly how it was presented in court.

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I'll give you the backstory of what led up to

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the initial investigation into Melanie Curtain, and let you decide

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guilt or innocence. This is eighteen minutes The Trials of

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Melanie Carton Unexposed Investigates podcast docuseries. We'll move on to

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the next one and that brings me to rocky Mount,

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North Carolina.

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I'm gonna tell you about a.

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Twenty five year old, smart, local teacher who threw it

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all away when she got arrested for having sex with

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three male students, two seventeen year olds and a sixteen

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year old, all off campus. Her name was Aaron mcculloffe,

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and she was born and raised in Rocky Mount, North

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Carolina and Rocky Mount. When I researched it, I was

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pretty surprised. It's a rather large city, sixty thousand residents,

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so Aaron fits right in there. She graduates from high

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school in twenty ten, very popular, very pretty. In college,

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she is your typical sorority girl. She's known as extremely small.

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She even joined the math club in college, one of

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my weakest subjects, and to those that knew her, she

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was very straight laced, or at least she appeared to be.

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So she graduates in math, that was her major, and

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she gets her teaching credentials in August of twenty sixteen,

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just nine months before everything I'm about to tell you

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about took place. She lands a job at Rocky Mount

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Prep School, which is a charter school in what's done

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as Nash County, and she's teaching high school math. And

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at this point she is twenty four years old, very

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well liked, very trusted, considered a professional. The whole nine

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nobody saw what was coming or did they well never know,

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because that school shut their doors pretty quickly after this incident.

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So Rocky Mountain Prep was a nice little charter school.

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A guy named Todd Popkin was the head of that

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school at the time, and he actually hired Aaron in

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August of twenty sixteen. Now, by May fourth of twenty seventeen, she.

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Was out of a job.

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The very next day, school administrators they contact police and

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they let them know a complaint came in regarding inappropriate

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relationships with Aaron mccauliffe and some students. Plural police start

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investigating and they interview faculty, they interview a whole bunch

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of students, and what they discover is these allegations involved

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three male students who were all students at Rocky Mountain Prep.

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And as I said, two of those are seventeen year olds.

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One of those was a sixteen year old. Now, every

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single one of these encounters occurred off campus, from what

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I understand, and that's actually more of a key point

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than you may think. She wasn't dumb enough to do

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any of these acts on campus, which meant likely she

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knew what she was doing was illegal. That would make

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it pretty hard for her to hide behind the well.

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The concent age was sixteen, and I thought, because they

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were sixteen, if they consented to having sex, there was

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nothing wrong with that. I didn't know that I was

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a teacher and that I could not engage in sex.

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With these people.

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She can't use that defense because she was intentionally doing

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this off campus. She knew her role as a teacher

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made it illegal. So by June eighth of twenty seventeen,

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she gets formally charged. She's arrested. She posted twenty thousand

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dollars bond on three felony counts of sex activities with students. Now,

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in the first case, I told you news exploded, But

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in this case it was like an Adam.

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Baum going off.

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TMZ picked it up the Daily Mail, and it was

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primarily because of her looks.

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The chick was good looking.

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All the headlines where ad hot math teacher gets busted

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for sleeping with three students. Now, this time, Aaron mcculloff

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is twenty five years old. So she appears in court

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and she walks in and she's wearing sunglasses, she's covering

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her face. She didn't have anything to say to the media,

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and she does her plea, which is obviously not guilty

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at that point. Now, this case literally drags.

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Through the system for years.

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When I tell you, none of the details outside of

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the arrest came out. That is the facts of it.

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There was no trial in this one. She pleaded, just

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like they all do, on October twenty ninth of twenty eighteen,

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to just one count of taking indecent liberties with a student.

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No pro in time, she gets eighteen massupprobation. And this

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is a case, y'all, with three separate victims. Wrap your

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head around that around again. What would have happened if

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that would have been a male teacher and he had

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screwed three underage kids. It is unreal to me. But again,

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North Carolina, no information to pull from.

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Jim, Did you see what happened in Texas today?

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Wait before you tell me that, let me tell you

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what happened in New York.

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It cannot be as crazy as the case I told

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you about yesterday in Louisiana.

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You know what we should do a podcast.

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About it, and with that we did. Crime War Weekly

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Simply by searching Crime Wire Weekly or clicking the link

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in the description of this podcast. Let's go to our

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last bad teacher for today, and I'm going to tell

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you about the story of a teacher who had every advantage,

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a study job, kids that looked up to her, you

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name it, threw it all away for a student that was,

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in this case.

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Fifteen years or younger.

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And the reason I say it like that is the

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charges tell me that, but no specific age has ever

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put out there.

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Men.

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North Carolina locks these things down almost to a negative extent.

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And I'll talk about that in a minute.

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But this teacher's name is Elizabeth Bailey, and in twenty

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twenty two she was arrested for statutory rape. That's how

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we know fifteen years or younger. But here's what makes

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her case really different from prior cases we have covered

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on bad teachers. In her case, even after she gets arrested,

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she keeps right on seeing this kid nine different times

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at her own house. Then even more shocking details come

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out in this case, and I'll tell you about those

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when I get to them, but let's get into it.

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She was born in nineteen eighty six, Elizabeth Bailey, and

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by the time all this came out, she was thirty

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six years old and she was living in Statesville, North Carolina,

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which is a small town about forty miles north of Charlotte.

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Now Elizabeth was not new to teaching either. She was

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a vet.

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She had over twelve years of teaching experience, knew better right. Eventually,

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she landed a job as a science teacher at Northview Academy,

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and she worked her way up the ranks, first as

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a teaching assistant, then she started working with kids with

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special needs. Eventually she ends up the science teacher. Now,

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Northview was not a typical school. It was an alternative school.

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It was for kids who had got kicked out of

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regular school. There aren't your straight A, honor roll students

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here at this school, and it was Elizabeth Bailey's job

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to get them on the right track. And you're seeing

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what she's doing here now, all seem fine with Elizabeth

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Bailey until July twenty second of twenty twenty two, when

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somebody we still don't know who could have been a student,

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could have been another teacher, could have been a parent.

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But someone tips the school off to the fact that

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Miss Bailey is having an inappropriate relationship with one of

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her students, and detectives they they start digging, They talk

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to staff, they talk to students, and within mere days

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of doing this they already have enough evidence to make

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an arrest. So on August first of twenty twenty two,

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that arrest happens, and Miss Bailey is charged with three felonies,

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including statutory rape in decent liberties with a miner and

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sexual activity with a miner. And although the age of

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this kid has never been released, we do know the kid,

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as I told you, was at the most fifteen years old,

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could have been younger. So she makes a seventy five

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thousand dollars bond. She goes home with an ankle monitor

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after her arrest, and then just eight days later, on

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August eighth of twenty twenty two, more charges, including contributing

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to the delinquency of a miner, are placed against her

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and they pick her back up. They must have figured

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out as part of this investigation that at some point

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she was giving this kid beer or drugs or something.

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and by September of twenty twenty two, police are shocked

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when it's discovered that after her arrest, when she was

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under a no contact order with this kid, Miss Bailey

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had met with the boy nine more times. Now, this

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is between her August first arrest and September second of

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that year. Nine times in just one month. And what

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do you think they were doing inside of that house?

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Right?

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They hit her with twenty seven additional charges and her

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bond jumps to eight hundred thousand dollars. She heads back

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to jail, and with an eight hundred thousand dollars bond,

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you would think she's gonna stay there. But shockingly, somehow

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she may images to make that eight hundred thousand dollars bond.

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So think about this. She's arrested, she totally ignores her

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bond conditions, seize this kid nine more times in a month.

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I don't consider that a screw up. I consider that

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a pattern, and sadly, that pattern would continue further, if

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you can believe that.

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When over six months later, one of those you can't

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make this shit up situations happens.

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On the afternoon of May thirteenth of twenty twenty three,

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she gets into an auto accident, so police show up

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in Miss Bailey. She appears like she had been drinking,

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but when police show up, she was sitting in the

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front passenger seat.

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No one else is there.

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Now witnesses to the crash confirm she in fact had

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not been driving. As a matter of fact, the witness

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is say the driver in a rear passenger in that

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vehicle fled from the scene after the accident.

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So get this.

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The very next day police locate the two people who

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fled that scene. Both were miners, and the one driving

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was the same freaking kid she had been ordered to

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stay away from. So again she's put into jail. But

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hold on to your ass. Here she bonds out again.

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I mean, how do you not earn a no bond

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in this instance? It is absolutely nuts to me. So

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from here the case drags on, and in the strangest

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case I have come across in quite a while, there

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is no record of her conviction.

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And the only way I knew.

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That she was convicted, was that her teaching license was revoked,

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and in that revocation it mentioned due to a conviction

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for sexual exploitation of a child. And that's frustrating. I

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understand you have to protect minor victims. I don't need

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another names, but the situations are important. Why because a

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parent can sit down their kid and go over what

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happened in a certain situation and explain to them, if

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you're ever in this situation, these are the possible things

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that can happen. I know it sounds weird. No one

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wants to have that conversation with their kids, but you

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have to these days, you absolutely have to. When you

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I don't want to use the word hide, but when

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you protect cases to this extent, it really does a

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disservice to the public. I'm disappointed in North Carolina. On

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my Bad Teacher's Consequence Scale. Of course, every week I

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rate the three to four cases that I cover and

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I give them a.

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Grade A through F on what I call my Bad.

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Teachers Consequence Scale, and I want to congratulate North Carolina.

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You get a big fat F on the Bad Teacher's

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Consequence Scale for several reasons. One at least from the

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cases that I covered here. Your consequences are absolute bullshit.

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How the hell did that last teacher I told you

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about get out of jail four times and continue to

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screw up. How is it that none of these teachers

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got me jail time. I don't know if the final

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teacher I covered did or didn't.

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Because they don't put it. There's not even on it.

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I would say the news agencies in North Carolina need

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to tighten up as well, and y'all need to get

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the information. It's just crazy. Do better, North Carolina. It's important.

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But there you have it.

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And before I get out of here today, if you're

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very high profile trial right here in my community. It

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is finally wrapped up, and I am dropping a docu

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series on this not exactly sure when I'm gonna drop it,

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because I'm going to record all of these episodes as

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It'll all be done by that point.

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Much love,