A Convicted Teacher Speaks Part 2
The Dr. Phil Podcast
Dr. Phil McGraw
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🗓️ 15 August 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Part 2: Three men say they were groomed and sexually abused by their female teachers. Dr. Phil investigates the rise of women offenders hiding in plain sight in America’s classrooms.
Sexual abuse by female teachers is a growing, often overlooked crisis. Dr. Phil speaks with Michael, Justin, and Mason three men who say they were groomed, manipulated, and assaulted by women entrusted with their education. Michael and Justin were teens when their 25-year-old teacher used homework help as a gateway to off-campus meetings involving alcohol, drugs, and sex. Mason was just 11 when a married 35-year-old teacher violated his trust and his childhood.
Their attorneys, Zach Runyan and Jon Marko, claim school systems and social media enabled this abuse by turning a blind eye. Christy Jack, a defense attorney who’s represented several teachers accused of assault, offers rare insight into the psychology of female offenders. Plus, one of her former clients who served prison time for abusing a 14-year-old student speaks out for the first time.
Why are female predators ignored—and who is protecting our children?
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| 0:00.0 | Take me through that moment where it went romantic, it went intimate. |
| 0:04.0 | I had thought to myself, I care more deeply for this person than I know that I should. |
| 0:10.0 | The student was only 14. |
| 0:12.0 | So this is statutory right. |
| 0:14.0 | There's no way that I can convince you that this was a real relationship. |
| 0:19.0 | But at the time that I was in it, it was. |
| 0:22.6 | What the hell were you thinking? |
| 0:24.6 | It seems like every day we read about a new female teacher |
| 0:38.3 | accused of sexually abusing an underage student. |
| 0:42.3 | These teachers are grooming their victims with gifts, drugs, or alcohol, |
| 0:47.3 | not to mention social media continues to help blur the lines |
| 0:51.3 | between teacher and student. |
| 0:53.3 | Now, you would think they would figure out by all the coverage this gets, |
| 0:59.0 | you're not going to get away with this. |
| 1:03.0 | Everybody thinks, I'll, you know, I'll get away with it. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm the exception. |
| 1:08.0 | No, you're not. |
| 1:10.0 | Last night, we spoke to three young men who say their teachers |
| 1:14.1 | cross the line. They say they were targeted, groomed, and eventually sexually abused by someone |
| 1:19.7 | they thought they could trust. I needed a ride home, so I had caught Mrs. Hotelli. And then she had to say, uh, if you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. |
| 1:33.3 | And that's when we just had sex. |
| 1:37.3 | She just started to sit on my lap and then she started kissing on me. |
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