Where were these teachers decades ago?
A Burbank middle school teacher named Amy Beck surrendered to authorities after feeling guilty about her sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student.
Amy Victoria Beck, 33, a sixth-grade English and Social Sciences teacher at David Starr Jordan Middle School, will be arraigned today in Burbank Superior Court on four counts of unlawful sex with a person under 16, and one count of oral copulation with a person under 16.
Beck turned herself in at the Burbank police station on Monday, admitting to police that she had been having “an inappropriate sexual relationship” with one of her male students from March to September of 2009, said Sgt. Robert Quesada of the Burbank Police Department.
Investigators confirmed her story with the male student.
“She just came in because she was feeling guilty and the guilt had been bothering her so much that she had to get it off her chest,” Quesada said.
“The detectives knew that that’s why she came in, to relieve that guilt that she’s been carrying since last year.”
Beck was booked into Burbank Police City Jail on Monday and was being held on $400,000 bail.
Beck’s arrest came just a few days after she resigned from the school with a short letter that did not state exactly why she was leaving.
News of Amy Beck’s arrest spread quickly at the middle school, where surprised students talked about their former teacher. Many of the students said she was very nice and often talked about her three children and her husband, who is a police officer.
“She was really awesome and helpful and stuff,” said an eighth-grade student who was in Beck’s class as a sixth-grader. “She was really cool. I didn’t think she could have done it.”
Parents at the school were shocked to hear this crime happened at the school.
“It’s scary,” said Jessica Sefchick, who was picking up her child from school. “Bad things happen all the time and I definitely try to keep my kids sheltered and safe, but this always kind of throws me because it seems to be happening everywhere.”
“That’s very disturbing,” said William Delacerda, whose son is a sixth-grade student at the school. “Hopefully the situation gets resolved and hopefully there’s more scrutiny on the teachers. Hopefully they’ll take steps to prevent it from happening again.”
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A Burbank middle school teacher named Amy Beck surrendered to authorities after feeling guilty about her sexual relationship with a 14-year-old student.
Amy Victoria Beck, 33, a sixth-grade English and Social Sciences teacher at David Starr Jordan Middle School, will be arraigned today in Burbank Superior Court on four counts of unlawful sex with a person under 16, and one count of oral copulation with a person under 16.
Beck turned herself in at the Burbank police station on Monday, admitting to police that she had been having “an inappropriate sexual relationship” with one of her male students from March to September of 2009, said Sgt. Robert Quesada of the Burbank Police Department.
Investigators confirmed her story with the male student.
“She just came in because she was feeling guilty and the guilt had been bothering her so much that she had to get it off her chest,” Quesada said.
“The detectives knew that that’s why she came in, to relieve that guilt that she’s been carrying since last year.”
Beck was booked into Burbank Police City Jail on Monday and was being held on $400,000 bail.
Beck’s arrest came just a few days after she resigned from the school with a short letter that did not state exactly why she was leaving.
News of Amy Beck’s arrest spread quickly at the middle school, where surprised students talked about their former teacher. Many of the students said she was very nice and often talked about her three children and her husband, who is a police officer.
“She was really awesome and helpful and stuff,” said an eighth-grade student who was in Beck’s class as a sixth-grader. “She was really cool. I didn’t think she could have done it.”
Parents at the school were shocked to hear this crime happened at the school.
“It’s scary,” said Jessica Sefchick, who was picking up her child from school. “Bad things happen all the time and I definitely try to keep my kids sheltered and safe, but this always kind of throws me because it seems to be happening everywhere.”
“That’s very disturbing,” said William Delacerda, whose son is a sixth-grade student at the school. “Hopefully the situation gets resolved and hopefully there’s more scrutiny on the teachers. Hopefully they’ll take steps to prevent it from happening again.”
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