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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In the aftermath, Ali says the administrators slut-shamed her. But she's more eloquent in her words to the police.
Wow. What did it feel like to write that and then hit send?
New laws. I've talked before about the changing landscape of Canada's sexual assault legislation. A series of new laws were put in place in the 1980s. These laws didn't exist when Anne-Marie Robinson and Jeannie McKay say they were assaulted. The old laws took a narrow view on consent. Had the girl gone to bed with the teacher willingly?
Those laws didn't consider grooming or the power imbalance between teacher and student. or a coach and a player, a doctor and a patient. But in the late 1980s, a new criminal code violation was introduced called sexual exploitation. This is how it reads.
Every person commits an offense who is in a position of trust or authority towards a young person, who is a person with whom the young person is in a relationship of dependency. and who for a sexual purpose touches directly or indirectly with a part of the body or with an object any part of the body of the young person, or invites, counsels, or incites a young person to touch a part of the body.
And the definition of a young person here is someone under 18. An adult being in a position of power changed the rules. Ali shared the news about going to the police with the other survivors.
Do you wish that, that, um, you had done this 35 years ago? Or are you glad that you're moving forward as an adult, more aware of what the laws are?
Now, Ali will wait to hear back from the police. It's been a difficult few months for Allie, ever since the women gathered at her Toronto home. It dredged up long-buried teenage memories, but it also reminded her of band, of making music. She's back in touch with high school bandmates, and she's thought more about the importance of music in her life.
Sitting down at her piano and writing this song has helped.
And it's a distraction, taking her mind off the waiting. But Ali doesn't have to wait long for a response from the police. Just a week later, I get another call.
Yeah, I can. The police took Ali's complaint seriously. Within a couple days, she was asked to go into a Toronto area station. She gave a formal statement on camera.
It's only been a week since she filed her first report. The detective has just called.
Wow. He's spoken to the prosecutor already. I can't tell if it's anxiety or excitement in Ali's voice.
What do you mean?
Wrong? How is that possible?
The sexual exploitation law, making it an offense for a person of authority to have a sexual encounter with a person under 18. It turns out the law was drafted in the mid-1980s. But it wasn't officially enacted into law until years later.
That was eight months after Ali's sexual encounter with her music teacher. The detective told her there was nothing he could do.
She was also thinking about Jeannie and Anne-Marie. They've already been through this with the police.
That wasn't all. Ali had reported to Toronto Area Police, where she went to high school. But her encounter happened on a band trip to Montreal, a six-hour drive from home. The detective told her since it happened in Montreal, he didn't actually have jurisdiction.
Ali's upset and still trying to absorb what the detective told her.
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