The high school music teacher who preyed upon his students

Australian True Crime

Meshel Laurie

True Crime

4.6 • 979 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Anna is a fabulous, vivacious woman who seems to have lived many lifetimes.

But the deeper we get into the business of why she joins us on Australian True Crime, the darker forces that drives people like Anna and their fast paced lives becomes more apparent.

For many years, Anna was trying to cope with the fact that she'd been preyed upon by a teacher, Trenton John Wickers, and the matter had never felt resolved in any way.

An unbelievable chance encounter changed Anna's life and led her to confront the situation and her attacker. This is Anna's story.

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Host: Meshel Laurie. You can find her on Instagram

Guest: Anna

Executive Producer/Editor: Matthew Tankard

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0:00.0	We're bringing Australian True Crime live to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne this July,
0:04.3	and I have to tell you that Brisbane sold out already.
0:07.4	Good for you, Brisbane, so we've quickly added a second show.
0:10.3	Now we can't keep adding more shows, so please make sure you get your tickets. Our special guests,
0:15.2	our forensic criminologist Santee Mallet in Brisbane and Sydney and the one and only Charlie Bazzina in
0:19.9	Melbourne. There'll be a Q&A of course so you can ask your own burning questions on the night but you have to book quickly.
0:25.9	This is a true crime podcast as the title suggests.
0:29.2	So please consider this your warning that it's not suitable for children and it probably will
0:33.8	contain content that may be triggering to some people. Also it's an Australian
0:38.3	true crime podcast so Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander
0:41.9	listeners should be aware it may contain the voices of deceased people.
0:47.0	The producers of this podcast recognize the traditional owners of the land on which it's recorded.
0:57.0	They pay respect to the Aboriginal elders past, present and those emerging.
1:07.0	The identity of a former music teacher who sexually abused students in the 1990s can finally be revealed.
1:15.0	Trent Wickers hid behind his role as a music teacher to groom and then abuse young female students.
1:22.0	Now more than two decades later... then abuse young female students.
1:22.8	Now, more than two decades later,
1:25.1	the 49-year-old's identity can finally be revealed.
1:29.1	One of the survivors of his abuse
1:31.1	fought for his name to be made public.
1:33.4	If I'm prepared to put my name and face to this for the sake of the public good and any stigma
1:38.8	that comes with that comes with that, I'd be pretty disappointed if he didn't have to face the same thing.
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