Anne-Marie Robinson
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409 appearances
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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And then the next morning, I remember waking up really scared and not being able to make sense of what had happened. I was obviously drunk on the alcohol that he provided. And there was a bunch of other kids there too. And, you know, they remember being in the room.
I don't know. I mean, I was just way too afraid to talk about it. The next thing I remember is going into his office. I don't know how far after the trip it was, but it was pretty close. And I remember him telling me that he had left his previous school because he'd been punched in the face by a father of a student for having some sort of sexual contact with that student. Now, at the time,
He told me it wasn't true. He told me that story, I think, to make me feel responsible for his job. And I was in grade 10. I didn't understand the world the way I do now. But at the time, it made me feel sorry for him. He told me his life was hard and so
It evolved into an emotional type relationship, but sort of in a Stockholm Syndrome kind of way, like I had no way out.
I know I was vulnerable and I had no father and my mother was just very preoccupied and for some reason I didn't feel like I could go to her.
He had sex with me once in the classroom, in a closet. And that, you know, I remember being humiliating I never resisted because I was like I was under his control, but he was going to, everything was going to be okay because he was going to marry me.
And because of the initial, what I see now, given the fact that I was drunk with the alcohol he gave me as a rape, I was, it was like I was trying to reconcile that.
because he was my teacher, he was someone to be trusted. I mean, and so even though I didn't like what had happened, I felt like somehow I was very confused. I mean, immediately after that, he kept telling me that he was in love with me and all of this stuff.
at some point made me feel like I was actually his girlfriend, which I knew I wasn't because I knew that what we were doing or what had gone on was wrong. And it had to be kept secret. He was sneaking around. I mean, you know, he would treat me differently in private than he would in public. He told me I wasn't allowed to tell anyone anything.
what was happening she still can't make sense of it a man having sex with a kid he never forced me i wouldn't say he forced himself on me it was more like a routine uh i was an emotional prisoner nada like he would get me in circumstances and then i didn't um Yeah, I don't really like to talk about it, but yeah.
I remember being with him going to the Royal Regiment band and him driving me around. Walker would take me to the armories and there was drinking after.
They're a good band. I mean, I think they're still a good band now and they were a great band in the in the mid 70s and I was a member of the union and I got paid really good money to play, which for someone who was raised by a single mother and my mom was on social assistance, it was like, I think I got paid $50 a concert, which in the 70s was incredible.
Well, it was the same every time. We would drive to a street and then he would initiate sexual activity in the front seat of the car. Yeah, it was just kind of expected.
There was no follow-up from either the school board or him or anything. I just kind of floated away from school one day. And I went into a deep depression. And I know... I don't have evidence of this, but I know in my heart that everyone knew something was going on and he was out of line. Like, where were the other adults? Why didn't they help me?
I suffered from severe mental illness after I was having panic attacks. I had almost two years where I could barely leave the house. In the aftermath of all of this, I was so thrown off my center and I just felt like a bad person.
I got married at 18 and had a lovely boy. At 21, I figured out that you could go to university without having a high school diploma.
And then I joined government in 1990 as a GST auditor.
I loved everything about government. I went from department to department and I worked on every file. So I became eventually a policy wonk. You know, I got promoted fairly regularly and then I became a deputy minister around 2010. And then I applied for and got the job as president of the Public Service Commission.
I googled his name and I found a transcript. It was really the first time I think in 30 years I'd have the guts to even think about him. And the victim, he had another victim.
This woman is my hero. I would love to meet her. And it's the same story.
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