Julie Ireton
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251 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
Julie Ireton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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After the survivors and I met up last summer, I started my search for the man who punched the music teacher. It took me a few months to make contact. We fondly call him Punch Daddy. Sam still lives close to Port Credit Secondary School. It's the same house he's lived in for decades. In 1975, Sam's daughter was 16 and in Walker's band. She had sexual encounters with the music teacher.
She recently died.
I sent Sam an email. Then he called me. Only a week has gone by and here we are.
Before we get to Sam's, Anne-Marie has a quick errand. She doesn't want to arrive empty-handed.
He did something. He did something. Finally, an adult who reported the teacher. Here we go. Sam greets us with warm handshakes. He's about six feet tall. He wears leather moccasins and a fleece sweater. He's quite limber for someone in his late 80s. This is Anne-Marie. Anne-Marie, do you have another one? I'll just check on the tea. Okay, thank you. Sure. Sam heads to the kitchen.
Anne-Marie and I sit down in the living room, look at each other in disbelief. It seems surreal that we are here. But we both dread the conversation that's to come. We know it will be painful.
I just take mine black. I take black too. Sam's house is spotless. He's a widower and now lives alone. He brings out a pretty porcelain cream and sugar set, mugs, napkins, a plate of cookies, and our cupcakes. Sam's voice cracks as he talks about his family, points to all the photos around the room. His grandchildren, his daughter who died.
She can't tell us her story, so I'm protecting their privacy. Sam is a pseudonym.
We chat for a while. Then it's time to discuss why we've come. Ann Marie tells Sam her story.
He says sexual encounters had occurred between the music teacher and his daughter. Soon after Sam found out, he and his daughter went to the high school. They met with the principal.
When they left the principal's office, Sam was fuming. What the teacher had done with his daughter was unforgivable. Sam, his daughter, and the music teacher walked across the school parking lot. Then Sam says, he swung around in fury. His fist met the teacher's face.
And believing her.
But we now know the teacher's next move was to Anne-Marie's school. Anne-Marie does not blame Sam for that. She only has gratitude. Can I give you a hug?
Sam shakes both bony fists in the air. Normally, Anne-Marie doesn't show emotion. She doesn't cry, seems robotic at times. But today, I see a shift. She's letting her guard down. I see a grateful, empathetic, strong woman.
You know, having met you, though, you just don't, I bet you that's the only man you ever punched.
We help clean up the mugs and plates. Sam insists we take some cookies for the road. Thank you so much. Great to meet you.
Yeah, for sure. Very good advice. It's hard to leave him. Yeah, we will.
You take care.
Bye-bye for now.
It's almost like Sam was ahead of his time. In 1975, he says he saw a man, a teacher, take advantage of his teen daughter. Sam did something. He told authorities. But it appears the administration did not investigate further to see if anything had happened to other girls at the school. Siobhan, the girl the music teacher called Jailbait, says no one reached out to her.
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