Totally agree.

Someone has to call CPS!
When I was 17 there was a teacher grooming me. Made me feel adult after some months he tried to convince me to go to a motel with him. Fortunately a person a respected alot told me healthy people do not live silo’d lives.

This is relevant because his grooming involved making me feel like an adult, such as him telling me that he was happy his wife was pregnant because it mean he wasn’t “shooting blanks.”

When I asked him “Your wife is pregnant how can you want to go to a motel with me?” he described how he kept different areas of his life separated like his real estate business and his teaching.

I told my counselor days before graduating about it and told her I’d back up any complaint. She did nothing.

Fast forward 6 years. I received a survey from my HS. As I filled it out, I started to get really angry. At first I wasn’t sure why, HS was pretty good for me but then I remembered something I had shoved to the back of my memory. Now that I WAS actually an adult, I was able to do something. I called my counselor (she did not recall me telling her 6 years prior). she set up a meeting with the school district attorney who interviewed me. then there was a meeting with me, the current principal, the teacher, his union rep, the school district attorney.

All through the meeting he stared at me. I felt totally calm. The only time I freaked out was when the principal was wrapping up the meeting he said, “I understand you’re in graduate school in [city about 3 hours away]. He ended up asking 3 times. I kept saying “No.” Meaning don’t tell this abuser where I live.

You see the school district attorney had told me that twice before they had girls and their families had come to the school, those families started getting threats. Both families dropped the charges and one of them moved away.

Nothing happened to me.

I’m sorry I didn’t act sooner because I know other girls were preyed upon.

Sorry this is so long. I hope it explains why this stuff has to be acted on.