Dangerous Liaisons

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🗓️ 27 May 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this Dateline classic, when a 33-year-old Catholic high school tutor in Grand Rapids, Michigan is charged with having an illegal relationship with a 15-year-old student, her stunning defense leads to an emotional courtroom battle. Keith Morrison reports. Originally aired on NBC on June 4, 2015.

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0:00.0	He didn't look like a 15-year boy.
0:02.4	He didn't act like a 15-year-old boy.
0:05.8	He said that they were friends, but that nothing had happened.
0:09.9	The text messages are the truth.
0:13.9	She was a 33-year-old high school tutor.
0:17.1	He was her 15-year-old student.
0:19.9	He was a love.
0:21.1	But after his mom found this on his phone,
0:24.1	police knew this was no innocent teenage crush.
0:27.7	He said that they had sex on several different occasions.
0:30.5	It was an illegal relationship.
0:32.5	A horrible crime to be accused of.
0:35.1	But she insisted he wasn't the victim.
0:37.8	She was.
0:38.9	I was petrified of him.
0:40.8	Petrified.
0:41.8	She says he forced himself on her.
0:44.6	Did you ever have consensual sex with him?
0:46.7	Never.
0:47.6	Prosecutors said she was lying.
0:50.2	She was insulted that you didn't believe her.
0:51.9	I was insulted that she thought someone would.
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