When I first heard about this story, as many of us did, I thought for sure, the young high school student would never be found alive. According to news accounts, a high school teacher had broken her neck, along with other injuries she sustained and police found her barely alive last week. We've seen in the news a lot teachers sexually assaulting children or having relationships with their young students. This case is particularly disturbing because the teacher had left the young woman to die. Who by the way, is still not out of the woods, she remains in critical condition, fighting for her life. I'm not trying to bring gloom and doom to these posts. My objective to is make everyone aware that violence has become a way of life at so many levels it's down right scary. And as parents everyone must do their part to know where their kids are, even at 17 years of age. Don't be too busy in your life. By paying attention you, just might save a life.
(ap newswire)
According to reports the high school teacher who moonlights as a pro wrestler attacked a 17-year-old girl and then left her in the woods with a broken neck for more than 30 hours before accompanying investigators back to where she lay.
Searchers who spotted Ashley Reeves through driving rain were sure she was dead - until they saw her take a breath. Authorities believe 26-year-old Samson Shelton tried to kill her a day earlier.
It's still unknown why the muscular, 6-foot-1 (1.85-meter), 200-pound (90.7- kilogram) teacher tried to strangle the 5-foot-5 (1.65-meter), 120 pound (54.4-kilogram) teenager with a belt and, according to the criminal complaint, use "his forearm with such force as to break the neck of Ashley Reeves."
Authorities have said Reeves and Shelton had a "relationship," though Johnson would not elaborate. He would not say how the girl, who attended a different school, knew the older man.
(ap newswire)
