Julie Ireton
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251 appearances
10 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2024
last heard Jan 2025
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She had very good marks. She was part of the band. But no one asked why she just stopped going to school.
She was still a teen. and needed support, she found it in another man. Someone about a dozen years older.
Life got back on track. She completed two degrees, then a master's, most of it part-time.
So she worked as a tax auditor. She raised her son, got divorced, then remarried, then divorced again. She moved across the country. Relationships with men were difficult. But she found herself in her work.
She was in a good place at home and work. One day she typed the teacher's name into a search.
Another teenager. A student at another school. He'd been banned from teaching.
The same story as hers. Anne-Marie wasn't alone. There was at least one other woman out there who knew how all this felt. The online report reveals the band teacher had sex with this teen student over and over again, more than 56 times. At school, in cars. The Ontario College of Teachers, the profession's regulator, found him guilty of professional misconduct. But the girl's name is blacked out.
By this stage, Anne-Marie was married to husband number three. Together they had a daughter, and that little girl had musical talent.
But then her daughter joined her high school band and convinced Anne-Marie to pick up the horn again. And that takes us back to that first band practice and the night she saw the ghost.
It was easier to imagine her former music teacher dead. She was able to play music again.
She had no intention of regressing.
Anne-Marie and the dog are getting restless. I'm tired. Yeah, I'm starting to lose it. We leave it there for the day. I'm asking the questions, but Anne-Marie is in control. After what she's been through, I have to give her that. I want to make this as comfortable as possible. Arch, be quiet. Finding Doug Walker, the former music teacher, is not difficult.
I locate his address and send him a registered letter. He emails me back right away. He doesn't deny having sex with Anne Marie. But Walker contends the relationship with Anne Marie was consensual. Not surprisingly, he doesn't want to do an interview with me. But we're moving ahead with this investigation. And there is much more to come. He picked the wrong girls. We're smart. We are assertive.
We kept going through the shit. Next time on The Band Teacher. Anne-Marie goes for coffee with the former band leader. And so I basically spent the whole week deciding what I was going to say to him. And she thinks going back to her old school might help kickstart her own memory and her healing.
The band Teacher is investigated, reported, written, and hosted by me, Julie Ireton. Alison Cook is the story and script editor, producer, sound designer, and mixer. Felice Chin is our executive producer and story editor. Eve Saint-Laurent is our legal advisor. Jennifer Chen, Amanda Pfeffer and Jen White provided valuable production advice.
Special thanks to the folks at CBC Podcasts for their support. The managing editor of CBC Ottawa is Drake Fenton. If you want to binge the whole series, subscribe to CBC True Crime Premium on Apple Podcasts. Just click on the link in the show description or binge listen for free by logging in to CBC Listen. If you or someone you know has been sexually abused, community resources can help.
Reach out to a trusted person, sexual assault centre or rape crisis centre in your area.
There we go. So how are you this morning? Good. I feel fine this morning.
But when we're talking about the 70s and 80s, it's obviously more difficult because we just don't have that digital record of everything. But I will, you know, I'll start digging.
Well, it could have happened. You don't know.
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