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Speaker 1: Crime Alard hourly update, Breaking crime News Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton.

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Speaker 3: In Florida, a school teacher has resigned and the Manatee

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Speaker 3: County Sheriff's Office is looking into a situation involving that teacher,

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Speaker 3: who is accused of sending an inappropriate letter to an

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Speaker 3: eleven year old student. The school district is also conducting

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Speaker 3: its own investigation into the Gullet Elementary School teacher, who

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Speaker 3: has recently stepped down from his position. We are not

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Speaker 3: disclosing the identity of the child. Anne Mitchell, the mother

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Speaker 3: of the student, shared her experience with NBC eight, saying

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Speaker 3: they are completely blindsided devastated by the two page letter

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Speaker 3: that she found from a teacher to her child.

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Speaker 4: This whole nightmare started when we discovered a two page letter.

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Speaker 3: And Mitchell reported she handed over the letter to investigators

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Speaker 3: at the Manatee County Sheriff's Office. She also provided a

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Speaker 3: copy of the letter to the school, claims her fifth.

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Speaker 2: Grade teacher gave it to her daughter.

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Speaker 3: The letter includes lines such as you know I truly

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Speaker 3: love you no matter what, that will never change. It

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Speaker 3: was also signed love, followed by the teacher's name, along

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Speaker 3: with a note that told the student to keep the

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Speaker 3: letter hidden in private. The girl's parents, Jason and Anne Mitchell,

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Speaker 3: expressed their shock upon reading the letter. As the father,

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Speaker 3: it's incredibly upsetting, said Jason. He also told News Channel eight,

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Speaker 3: as a dad, I'm thinking to myself, what can be done?

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Speaker 3: What can I do legally? And what else happened to

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Speaker 3: my daughter that I don't know about.

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Speaker 5: Incredibly upsetting? What can I do legally? You know, out

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Speaker 5: of frustration of being in receipt of something like this.

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Speaker 5: What more could he have done to my daughter?

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Speaker 3: Michael Barber, the director of Communications for the School District

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Speaker 3: of Manitee County, provided the following statement. The teacher's name

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Speaker 3: has been placed by in a statement due to the

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Speaker 3: lack of criminal charges. He said, but the said teacher

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Speaker 3: was a fifth grade teacher at our elementary school this year.

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Speaker 3: On Sunday, a troubling letter from a parent appeared to

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Speaker 3: us from that teacher. The following day, the district reassigned

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Speaker 3: the teacher to a non instructional position where he had

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Speaker 3: no interaction with students.

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Speaker 2: The district also.

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Speaker 3: Informed the Florida Department of Children and Family Services, the

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Speaker 3: Manatee County Sheriff's office and the Florida Department of Education's

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Speaker 3: Office of Professional Practices. Both the Sheriff's office and the

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Speaker 3: school district initiated separate investigations into the allegations. In such cases,

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Speaker 3: law enforcement investigation takes priority. Once the Sheriff's office granted

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Speaker 3: the district permission, the teacher was interviewed by the district's

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Speaker 3: Office of Professional Standards. During this interview on Wednesday, the

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Speaker 3: teacher submitted his resignation. His resignation was presented at the

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Speaker 3: next school board meeting on Tuesday, where it was approved

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Speaker 3: and finalized, and the teacher is no longer with us

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Speaker 3: the school, said Jason Mitchell, the girl's father, expressed a

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Speaker 3: desire for the teacher to be terminated.

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Speaker 5: To us, we felt termination was tougher language attached to

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Speaker 5: somebody that we would hope would never be in a

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Speaker 5: classroom again.

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Speaker 3: The fifth grader's parents conveyed a message directly to the teacher. Quote,

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Speaker 3: I would urge him to take a moment.

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Speaker 2: Of self reflection. He needs help, said the girl's father.

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Speaker 3: The girl's mother added, we would want him to read

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Speaker 3: that two page letter out loud to us as parents.

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Speaker 2: Look my husband in the eye as he read.

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Speaker 3: It and imagine how he would feel if someone did

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Speaker 3: that to a girl he loved. Detectives from the Manitee

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Speaker 3: County Sheriff's Office confirmed that the investigation is ongoing. They

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Speaker 3: say potential charges, including bullying, are anticipated, and Mitchell shared

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Speaker 3: a message for other parents in the Tampa Bay area

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Speaker 3: and abroad.

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Speaker 4: We are often as parents teaching our children, you know,

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Speaker 4: to listen to our teachers, to be respectful, to follow directions.

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Speaker 4: So that's what I had taught my daughter, and I'm

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Speaker 4: come to find out that that may or may not

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Speaker 4: be the right lesson to teach our kids.

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Speaker 5: Well.

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Speaker 2: Crime Injustice news after this.

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Speaker 1: How could a beautiful young first grade teacher be stabbed

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Speaker 1: twenty times, including in the back, allegedly die of suicide? Yes,

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Speaker 1: that was the medical examiner's official ruling after a closed

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Speaker 1: door meeting. He first named it a homicide. Why what

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen Greenberg a huge American miscarriage of justice.

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Speaker 1: For an in depth look at the facts, see what

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Speaker 1: Happened to Ellen on Amazon. All proceeds to the National

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Speaker 1: Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

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Speaker 2: And now to Tennessee.

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Speaker 3: Twenty nine year old Matthew Tyler Henry is a new dad,

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Speaker 3: and he's proud of that. On April fifteen, Matthew sets

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Speaker 3: out in his white Ford Mustang to the local tractors

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Speaker 3: supply in Dunlap, Tennessee. Witnesses say Matthew is seen in

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Speaker 3: the parking lot having a conversation with someone in a

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Speaker 3: Chevy Silverado truck. Matthew is never seen again. His family

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Speaker 3: says he would never just walk away. Matthew Tyler Henry

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Speaker 3: now missing seven years. Matthew is a white male five eight,

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Speaker 3: one hundred and sixty pounds with brown hair and hazel eyes.

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Speaker 3: He has his mother's name, Beverly and a red heart

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Speaker 3: tattooed on his chest.

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Speaker 2: There is a.

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Speaker 3: Thirty five hundred dollar reward for information leading to his whereabouts.

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Speaker 3: Anyone with information can contact the Dunlap Police Department at

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