Ivers,” her teacher, and “Jeff,” the statutory rapist she, while underage, claimed she loved. Ivers-Jeff-it’s hard for me to know what to call him as Ortiz herself was caught between the “Mr. Ortiz recounts, in stunning detail, an affair she had with her own English teacher in 1980s Los Angeles, beginning when she was thirteen years old. A stream of articles featuring teachers suspected or convicted of preying on their students appears … It is any given day.”Īny given day, this kind of predatory behavior does happen. Ortiz calls attention to the prevalence of this abuse, explaining it is “as simple as typing ‘teacher guilty’ into a news outlet’s search field. Oritz’s first book, Excavation, reminds us that these predatory trysts between teachers and underage students happen all the time. Sexual predators were evil people far away from my safe haven. These kind of things didn’t happen in my hometown. The male teacher later plead guilty to assault with intent to commit sexual penetration, and landed in state prison. Displayed across the cover of the local newspaper was the face of a teacher accused of sexual misconduct stemming from alleged sexual encounters with underage girls in the Nineties, while I had attended Marquette Senior High School. In fall of 2008, a scandal rocked my small town, Marquette, in Upper Michigan.
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