The following podcast contains accounts of child sexual assault.

Listener discretion is advised.

This is Australian True Crime with Michelle Laurie.

Our guest today is Sarah Copp,

who is speaking publicly about the long-term impact of grooming

by her former high school PE teacher Paul Greeley.

At just 15, while a student at Eurangan State High School in Harvey Bay,

Sarah was drawn into an unlawful relationship shaped by praise,

boundary violations and secrecy.

Dynamics, she says, continued to influence her well into adulthood.

In the meantime, they had married and had several children.

Years later, she reported Greeley to police and in 2023, he was found guilty of multiple

child sex offences. Today, Sarah is a dance teacher and founder of Step In for Kids,

an initiative focused on helping communities recognise the warning signs and prevent

abuse. Sarah joins us on Australian True Crime to talk about it. This is Australian True Crime.

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this podcast is created, the Wurundri

Woi Wurang people of the Koolan Nation.

My mum was a single mom, had always been since I was born.

So it was just the two of us.

Yeah, that definitely made her vulnerable because I think, too, you know, we came from a family where you put a lot of trust in people, especially when they're in positions

like being a teacher or, you know, those occupations that generally are, you know,

held quite high in society. For you as a 14, 15 year old, that must have been a very powerful

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