'She robbed me of experiences,' says Winnipeg man suing teacher over past sexual relationship
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A Winnipeg man has filed a lawsuit and a police complaint against his former high school English teacher for engaging in a sexual relationship with him that started when he was 15 years old.
The man, now 22, says he suffered emotionally and turned to alcohol and drugs. The lawsuit alleges what happened was sexual abuse, sexual exploitation and sexual assault, and seeks more than $400,000 in damages.
He and the teacher broke the relationship off when he was 16 but reignited it and made it public when he turned 18, raising concern among his family and friends.
"As I'm maturing, I'm starting to realize that I was a victim," he said in an interview with CBC. "What she did was wrong, and she should pay the consequences for it."
CBC News is not naming the teacher or the school because of a court order protecting the man's identity.
He filed the lawsuit in February 2021 against the teacher and the Seine River School Division, which employed her. He went to Winnipeg police in April.
The lawsuit alleges other teachers and administration at the school were aware of the teacher's "illicit interactions and overboard attention" toward the student, but nothing was done to "curb or prohibit" the relationship.
As part of the police investigation, a court ordered the school division to turn over the teacher's employment records, the student's report cards and documents related to a investigation by the division into the matter to police.
Police records filed in court say the division's 2018 investigation ended with the teacher resigning from her job that year.
As of this year, she was teaching at a different school elsewhere in Manitoba, court records say.
The former student says the relationship with his Grade 10 English teacher began with flirting in class.
Walking home from a class one day, he ran into the teacher, who happened to be driving by, he says. She invited him over to her home, where they started "making out."
Later, she picked him up again after school around the same area, he says.
"[It was] kind of like a place we decided. I didn't have her phone number at the time.… We went to her house and then we had sex that day," he said.
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