Through her high school years, Clemens lived through a sexually active and emotionally exhausting relationship with her middle school science teacher that continued into college and graduate school. The “special” bond, as her abuser called it, morphed from an innocent friendship between teacher and student into a deeper emotional connection and sex in high school, and eventually a long-term affair rife with jealousy, threats and guilt.
Clemens’ former teacher at Norwood Junior High South in Massachusetts was eventually convicted of sexually assaulting two other 14-year-old female students years later, with the help of Clemens’ testimony to establish his inexcusable pattern of behavior.
The pedophile teacher, Robert Baker, was sentenced to less than two years for numerous counts of statutory rape and has since been released from prison as a registered sex offender. Clemens bonded with Baker’s two other victims and the girls leaned on each other to heal from their traumatic experiences. (more...)
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