‘I need people to understand how insidious this … abuse really is’

Steve Orr – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle USA TODAY NETWORK – in the D&C on 8/13/2020 on page A4

He was a teacher at Brighton High School, accomplished and popular. She was a ninth-grader.

He taught English and advised the literary club. She wanted to be a writer and wanted him to be her mentor.

He took her under his wing, but then allegedly more. The teacher lured the teenage student, 20 years younger, into a close personal relationship and into sex.