We’re not in Kansas anymore…
The Houston Chronicle recently reported on a student who blackmailed his teacher for nearly $28,000 after a sexual relationship. The defendant was a hardworking Dallas math teacher and athletic coach. The student was, well, an extortionist.
Turns out the student threatened to turn his teacher in for aggravated sexual assault of a child if she did not pay him thousands of dollars. At one point, when the teacher told the student that she didn’t have money to pay him, she threatened to commit suicide because she would rather do that than go to jail.
But that didn’t deter the student. He kept sending her texts to pay up or else.
Then the student’s mother discovered the texts.
When asked why she searched her son’s phone, the mother said she got suspicious when her son suddenly started receiving large sums of money.
“His clothes, his shoes, drugs, beer. He would leave the house, he wouldn’t come come for days,” the mother told reporters.
She called police and the teacher has now been charged with a child sex offense. Meanwhile, the student is claiming that their “fling” was so traumatizing that he will never be able to recover.
But who’s really the victim here? Who was the perpetrator?
It’s now up to the judge and jury to answer these questions. I certainly know who I would acquit.
