OAKLAND – Prosecutors rejected the sexual abuse case on children against a former teacher from the Oakland School of the Arts, ending a saga that lasted years and included a regulations for seven figures against school.
Jeremy Taylor had been accused of having committed an obscene act on a child 14 or less, as well as improvements alleging “substantial sexual contact”, as well as to select a vulnerable victim and to be in a position of trust. But during a hearing by the March court, the prosecutors rejected the case, invoking the lack of corroborant evidence beyond the complaint of the alleged victim.
The case was rejected in the midst of an in progress dispute to the AOS, which had been ordered by a judge to explain why he was lagging behind in accordance with a summons to produce files related to Taylor and the alleged victim. On March 4, the day the order of presentation of the cause was to be heard, the office of the County Prosecutor of Alameda rejected the case.
Taylor’s lawyer Liz Grossman did not respond to several attempts to reach her by phone. She told Kqed that Taylor “has always been firm in his innocence and is grateful that justice was finally obtained against these false and ruinous allegations.”
The alleged victim, known only under the name of Jane Doe in the judicial archives, spoke at the hearing of March 4, referring to Taylor as a sexual aggressor who “washed” and that she “washed” and that she always fights with problems of trauma, self-abuse and confidence to date.
“I want the unhealthy bond that we once had. I loved this man, I smiled, and I really agreed to rape me again and again,” said Doe in court. “I hate myself that I wanted to be with him in this way and make him happy, make him proud. I hate myself that I always care about him. ”
Prosecutors allege that Taylor attacked the victim on a continuous basis from September 2004 to September 2005, when Taylor was 29 to 30 years old. Police started investigating him until last year, when the alleged victim told a friend what had happened, and called the Oakland police service.
In her statement on March 4, the girl said that she wanted her friend to advance to the police and did not want the case to be prosecuted. She said that the “betrayal and abandonment of her friend still have fun to date” and that she had been negatively affected by the media coverage of the case.
Taylor stayed with school for years after alleged abuses and was dismissed in 2022, after a third -party investigation discovered that he had “adopted grooming behavior with several students and had sex with a student,” Kqed reported. Investigators used a lower legal standard than jurors are given for criminal trials.
During the case, Grossman asked for a wide range of documents, linked to the AOS files, the mental health of the alleged victim, his communication by email with Taylor and his hospital files, according to legal files. A judge approved them almost all.
In December, Alameda county judge David Pereda ordered the school in Charter to demonstrate “why it was not possible” to produce a litany of additional files, including which Taylor classes taught, email administrators and copies of all that the school had given to the Oakland police. The files had been assigned to appear months earlier, said the judge’s order.
In a separate case, the girl continued Osa and received a seven -digit regulations, Kqed reported.
Taylor had been warned by the staff of having had private meetings with students during the alleged abuse, according to the judicial archives. Police said in the judicial files that they had spoken to students who said that he would offer their peers of coffee or hugs, and one of them had seen the name of a student written in condensation inside the Taylor vehicle.
In May 2004, a school administrator told Taylor to stop advising students during private meetings. Taylor replied with a memo indicating that he had sought to give students a safe space to talk about family problems, food disorders, self -control behavior and others, according to the police.
This warning was repeated in September 2005, after a student sent an email to Taylor seeking to meet him for lunch and what she was missing. Two weeks after that, the mother of another student – the same girl whose name would have been written in condensation on the Taylor’s car window – withdrew her from her mathematics course. When the girl apologized, Taylor would have replied that she and he could discuss it, but he “insists, however, that it is in person”, followed by a smiling face emoji. The following year, he sent an email to the same girl asking for photos of her to “a properly room wallpaper”, according to the police.
The school, which teaches students from 6th to 12th year, has published a public declaration saying that it strives to “guarantee a safe learning environment, united and without discrimination in which students can prosper”.
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