Julie Ireton
speaker
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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For Anne-Marie and me, much of Jeannie's story sounds like a rerun.
At this point, the teacher was in his early 30s, twice Jeannie's age. his third school in four years.
He was showing them Penthouse magazine.
One night after band practice, she remembers the teacher gave the girls a special send-off.
Jeannie now sees the progression. Drinking, pornography, suggestive comments, French kisses, then sex.
It was after a band practice, the Royals. The Royal Regiment of Canada Band, the same one he had taken Anne-Marie to a couple years earlier.
She wasn't equipped to see it then, but she now realizes she was groomed. He provided dinners, drinks. There was special treatment during class and after school. Sex often happened in the back of a car. It was routine and continued for two years. Jeannie now knows the teacher kept her away from those who might have condemned it or reported what was happening.
Her younger brother was also in the Markham school band. He died a few years ago. Jeannie now sees it all so clearly.
She always suspected she was not the only student he introduced to the back seat of his car.
So Jeannie went on the pill. She remembers he normalized the whole situation.
For Jeannie, there was sexual activity on school and Royal Regimental band trips around the world in the UK, Germany, New York, Atlanta.
And that started towards the end of high school when her dad got sick.
As Jeannie grew up, became an adult, she needed to bury what had gone on with her teacher, just like Anne-Marie had done. For survivors of abuse, this seems like a textbook coping mechanism.
Jeannie goes back to the moment just months ago when she and Anne-Marie connected. And...
Both Jeannie and Anne-Marie described sexual abuse by the same teacher. Both women married and had a baby at a very young age. Both divorced twice. Both went to university as mature students. Their paths ran parallel. They've merged.
Anne-Marie feels that same validation.
Jeannie makes a prediction.
Jeannie now teaches at this Vancouver-area high school. Despite what happened with her own music teacher, she ended up back in the classroom. But she no longer holds a baton or leads a school band.
She felt haunted. How could a teacher even contemplate using his power over a student?
Anne-Marie tells her about volunteering with her daughter's high school band. It was the first time she realized 15 and 16-year-olds are still children.
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