2nd woman says former teacher heard on tape molested her
Updated 2:30 p.m.
A Southern California school administrator who was recorded telling a young woman that she regretted sexually abusing her as a middle school student has a second accuser.
Last week, a 28-year-old woman calling herself “Jamie X” posted a video to YouTube that depicted her phone call to a former teacher who had reportedly been her basketball coach at Chemawa Middle School in Riverside in the 1990s, confronting her about the alleged abuse.
“Do you realize that you brainwashed me and you manipulated me and that what you did was wrong?” asked Jamie into the phone.
After a pause, the woman on the other end, responds, “yes.”
And now, another woman has come forward to say that the same former administrator also molested her.
“There were things I was scared to say and my story is
exactly like hers,” the second alleged victim, who did not want to be identified,
told CBS Los Angeles. Lt. Val Graham, a spokesperson for the City of Riverside, confirmed to CBS News' Crimesider that a second accuser had come forward in the case.
Crimesider is withholding the former teacher’s
name because she has not been charged with a crime. According to a statement from the Alhambra School District, the woman, who was an assistant
principal at Alhambra High School at the time of the phone call, resigned on Jan. 17, the day that the school learned of the video and contacted police.
Entitled “A call to my childhood rapist,” the video has been viewed more than 755,000 times. On the YouTube page, Jamie writes: “When I finally got up enough courage to report her, I found out that the statute of limitations was up and she will never have to pay for the things that she did to me. I decided to call her and make a video to let the public know what kind of person is around their children.”
On the approximately three-minute phone call, Jamie asks, “Do you know that I am completely messed up? That I have so many issues because of you?”
The woman answers: “I just wanted to help you.”
“How is having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old student helping them?” Jamie asks.
After a pause, the woman says, “It wasn’t anything that I intended.”
When asked whether the statute of limitations would limit potential prosecution of the allegations, should police find them credible, Lt. Graham said that, depending on the possible charge, the statute of limitations may not begin until the crime was reported to police.
