STOP EDUCATOR-CHILD EXPLOITATION

Now I no longer minimize what you did to me so I can cope, I am stronger, successful in my career, with an amazing and supportive family. I’ve chosen not to keep your secret anymore.  

I am sharing my story because I want the public and policy makers to understand how deeply damaging teacher-on-student sexual exploitation can be.  My high school music teacher sexually exploited me in the 1970s.  

For years I wouldn’t even let myself be loved and I couldn’t really trust a man further than I could chuck a piano.

He told me what friends I needed to get rid of and was curious what boys I was interested in. I have a memory of going to his house, as he used to drive me home from school, but other than recalling sitting on a bed, the memory is gone. I cannot even begin to imagine what occurred.

With his predatory instincts finely tuned, he was able to manipulate other adults into ignoring what was really happening to me and others.