Anne-Marie Robinson
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409 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
Anne-Marie Robinson’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They were all adults. I was the only female and the only, as far as I know, the next youngest person were like three and four years older than me.
No, that's not fair. There was nothing stable about my life then. I felt scared all the time. I felt at risk. And I never knew what was going to happen. I couldn't make sense of the so-called relationship.
Yes.
Yes. I mean willingly, but in the sense that I didn't protest. It wasn't like if I'd been with someone my own age. I felt very dependent on him.
Yes. Yes.
I eventually did at the time when he often lied to me and I would find things out. And then it was a process of slowly being worn down, disappointed, humiliated and all kinds of things.
But having said that, you also feel like you're in the dark.
I felt kind of shut out about the process at the end, so I'm just really trying to understand what's going on.
I feel like the fact that he was my teacher is not a consideration.
There's no question in my mind that I was re-victimized again during the process. Feeling like nobody was there to protect me again.
It was just this weird combination of Anger, relief, not being alone, but also just like a gut punch.
Thanks to an old contact at the Royal Regiment of Canada Band, Anne-Marie Robinson now has the name of the other student who reported Doug Walker. This woman blew the whistle. He was banned from teaching. That anxious excitement is back in her voice. So it was very emotional for me.
Anne-Marie sits at the desk in her home office, talking to me by video. Her brown bangs brush the top of her glasses. Every now and then I hear her little dog yipping.
For the first time since the criminal case against the former teacher was dismissed, I see some hope in her eyes.
She wonders if knowing this woman and maybe other survivors would have made a difference to her court case. Strength in numbers? Like you said, she doesn't have to reveal her name. To protect her identity, we'll refer to her as J.M.
J.M. is a teacher, and she lives in British Columbia. She's in her late 50s. J.M. played with the military band, too.
It sounds like Anne-Marie is trying to convince herself. She's actually consumed by guilt when she thinks about this woman. JM's experience came soon after the music teacher left Anne-Marie's school. And Anne-Marie didn't report him back in high school. I felt physically ill at one point.
She knows what she wants to say, but how to say it?
Anne-Marie sends an email to an address she's found online for JM. The introduction is made and we wait. The Band Teacher. I'm Julie Ireton. This is season two of The Band Played On. Anne-Marie Robinson lost her battle in court. The charge of rape was dropped. The case didn't go to trial, but questions linger, and Anne-Marie and I are pursuing answers.
Our story began in Canada's biggest city, but it's about to take us across the country and well beyond this one survivor. Episode 4, Hello Powerful Woman.
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