Anne-Marie Robinson

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Sea of Lies from Uncover · S31 E7: Club no one wanted to join | The Banned Teacher · 8 Jan 2025 podcast
The last night of the Montreal trip, both she and the teacher were intoxicated. She says he propositioned her. They ended up in his hotel room. She says she went willingly.
I've spoken to her friends, girls who were there that night. One says the teacher peeked into the hotel corridor. He asked her to come get Ali from his room. The friend says Ali was passed out on his bed. Her pants were undone.
The teacher had sex with his 17-year-old student. Allie's friends confirm her entire story, and one of them says the teacher propositioned her as well. The next day, they headed home.
Including the sexual intercourse, oral sex.
Yeah. She says the responsibility was put on her, a kid, to tell the music teacher she had reported him.
It was humiliating. Her gaze is down. She's petting a sleeping dog. Its furry head is nestled against her on the couch. I'm still having trouble looking people in the eye, talking about it.
Did the school, the superintendent, the principal, the guidance counselor make you feel like this was your fault, that you had done something wrong? Oh, yeah.
The encounter between the music teacher and Ali took place on a spring band trip. Ali reported to her guidance counselor as soon as they returned. There were only a few weeks left in the school year. The music teacher finished out the year at Markham High. In June 1987, he conducted that last concert in his tuxedo.
The students gave him an emotional send-off. It's on that cassette tape Ali shared with me. I don't believe Doug Walker's voice is on this tape, but it's our band playing our final concert. Several former students and teachers have told me what they heard back then. It was a rumor. The music teacher had been caught drinking alcohol with students. He'd broken the rules. He was moving schools.
At the time, only a small group of people knew the real reason he was leaving. Allie knew.
I'm told by a current professor of family law that having sex with a student should have been the legal basis for the teacher's dismissal in 1987. In other words, Walker should have been fired. But the expert tells me this didn't occur very often, and we know it didn't happen in this case. It was common just to move teachers.
My questions and freedom of information requests to the school board have provided no answers. As I've mentioned before, the board says no records exist. The music teacher moved to another school within the same board, but Ali says rumors continue to swirl.
The European trip, that's the one our diary keeper Jackie Short told us about. It's when she reported Walker to an administrator on a boat trip in Germany.
After he moved to the next school, he still taught music, led the band. But he would not be the head of the music department there. That was his demotion.
That spring, Jackie was away at university. She had graduated five years before, but she heard the music teacher was heading to another school. The news was spreading on the alumni grapevine.
Yeah.
And Anne-Marie, you did something too. These women all did something. You came to me.
And if you hadn't come to me, none of us would be here. That's true. This club wouldn't exist without Anne-Marie. They wouldn't all be together sharing their truths. But why did officials never tie any of these stories together? There are three women in this room who went to authorities when he was still teaching. Jackie told an administrator in 1982. Nothing was done.
Ali told senior administrators in 1987. He moved to another school. Jeannie, JM, went to police about 10 years later. Anne-Marie quotes from Jeannie's police file in the late 1990s from memory. She's recalling information police obtained from the school board.
That means Jackie's 1982 complaint wasn't heeded or documented. Nor was Ali's 1987 report to a principal and a school board superintendent.
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