Brittany Rohl was just 16 years old when she says her Long Island high school teacher took her under his wing
Stolen kisses by the grade school. Nonstop texting. Photographs together at prom. It sounds like a high school romance taken straight from the pages of a teen novel – set against the backdrop of a Long Island beach town.
Except one half of the couple was a pretty young track star – and the other half was a coach and teacher twice her age.
Brittany Rohl has publicly released a harrowing account of alleged grooming and abuse that she says began when she was just 16 years old at Babylon High School and would eventually turn sexual.
Now 28, she details her claims that the married teacher began employing classic manipulation techniques early on to forge a bond and exert control, singling her out, telling her she was “overlooked” by others and he was the only one who truly appreciated her.
“If you haven’t had a lot of romantic interest from boys, you’re just feeling unwanted and kind of picked over, and then … someone with authority shows interest in you, it’s a really unique psychological situation,” Ms Rohl tells The Independent.
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