00:00Your Honor, this was more than just six isolated and aberrant acts of sexual abuse against a minor.
00:07This was a pattern of six years of grooming, manipulation, and abuse by this defendant as a middle school teacher
00:17against one of her active and then former students.
00:21Your Honor, I did provide a large number of text messages to counsel between the defendant and the victim.
00:30They, because of the nature of the cell phone, they start in May of 2023 and they continue through January
00:37of 2026.
00:40There are references in those text messages to FaceTimes and prior conversations, but the actual messages that we have don't
00:47go back further than May of 2023 at this time.
00:52These text messages show not only the level of the grooming and manipulation by this defendant, but they also corroborate
00:58multiple times over the sexual relationship disclosed by this victim, including the specific sexual acts that the victim disclosed to
01:09police during his interview.
01:11For example, Your Honor, in a text message conversation that occurred on August 9th of 2023, the defendant is reminiscing
01:19with the victim about when the victim was in middle school, specifically a time that the victim came to her
01:25classroom on her prep period.
01:26And the defendant made out with the victim and that they were grinding, this is stated by the victim in
01:33his statement to police.
01:34He explains that when he was in middle school, he would go to her classroom on her prep period, which
01:40was third period.
01:41Even all these years later, he remembers the specific period and he recalls this specific incident.
01:47He was in middle school, with the victim on her staff somewhere, which was adopted by the victim of the
01:48victim of the victim of a conviction.
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