Jeannie McKay
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160 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Jeannie McKay’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He taught music for a quarter century in the Toronto area and victims allege the crimes were missed, ignored or minimized by school administrators, the military and even the police.
Oh, my God. Like, I went to bed thinking, that's it. I don't have to think about them. It's done. I'm done. And then in the morning, you're in the inbox and other people are in my inbox.
I remember him taking us to the Howard Johnson Bar on Markham Road at the hotel. And he took me to the hotel room there once. And this other gal, I don't know her, Denise Cable. She says, I was told one time for a test, I could either play the music piece or neck with him. She says, shocked, I just stood there and began playing.
He used to take the students into the storage room to have us play our test, but obviously there was another reason.
And then we're going to talk with our new girl tonight.
Hey, Siobhan. One by one, each woman pops up in a square on my computer screen. Six small boxes. They've become familiar faces to me and to each other. Where are you, Siobhan? I'm at home. They fondly call this group the Blipsters. That's because they're among the music teacher's blips. That's survivor Jeannie McKay in B.C. with her wire-framed glasses, her salt-and-pepper hair.
Doug Walker told Ontario's teachers' regulator the two years of sexual encounters with Jeannie, his teenage student, well, that was just a blip. We now know she wasn't even his first blip. Other girls from other schools, came before Jeannie.
On these calls, Jeannie is often joined by Anne-Marie, Jackie, Rita, Siobhan, and Ali. We've heard all their stories in previous episodes. Today, they've come together to hear about our visit to Sam's house. the dad who punched the music teacher. Sam served Anne-Marie and me tea in his spotless living room. There were tears and hugs.
Now I'm playing back some of the tape I recorded from that visit. The other survivors want to hear his voice.
In 1975, Sam found out his teenage daughter was having sexual encounters with her music teacher. Sam told the principal.
Then he punched the teacher. Former students say Walker left the school.
Oh, God. They all know Sam recently lost his daughter. She's no longer around to talk about it or appreciate what he did. And it makes the situation even more sad. I see Jeannie leave the screen to grab a Kleenex box and Ali holds her head in her hands. Wow.
There are no dry eyes.
They all resolve to send him notes and cards, and they do. I don't have a dad anymore. I don't either. I never really did. Oh, my God. I don't know, there's just... That's Ali. She reported the music teacher after a band trip to Montreal in 1987.
And I was like, there's nothing else to wait for. For decades, Allie thought it was her fault after a 39-year-old teacher had sex with her, a teenage student. She now wants to put the blame where she says it always belonged. It just washed over me that I feel like it's time. Time to go to the police. Because a conviction would make a difference. The banned teacher. I'm Julie Ireton.
This is season two of the band Played On. Survivors still crave justice. New laws were enacted in the 1980s. They made it illegal for those in positions of authority, like teachers, to have sexual relations with the young people they're in charge of, their students. It's in Canada's criminal code. And if I'm the only person who falls under the new laws, then I do have a responsibility. I do.
And we discover inconsistencies in how police treat male victims versus female victims of historical sexual assault.
Episode 9, If They Were Boys.
Ali has just reported to the police in the Toronto area where she attended high school. It's November 2022.
We all gathered at Ali's Toronto home a few months ago in the summer with the cat and the dogs and the survivors. Now she's taken a big step. She's written to the police. Please help to bring this serial predator to justice. Ali has lived with what happened to her for more than three decades.
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