Adults in the Room: The Boy in the Photograph
3/31/202630 min
As Isolde looks through records on Mr. Hudson from Seattle Public Schools, she comes across a document describing a photograph of Hudson and two students at a mountain lake near Seattle. All three of them are naked.
Isolde learns that back in 1994, before she attended Garfield, this photo spurred a separate investigation into Hudson's relationship with students. But ultimately, records say the boy told investigators it was no big deal.
Years down the line, that changes. Isolde finds an email from the same boy, now an adult, claiming he was ready to go on record a...
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Isolda Raftery· Host0:41
Focus from KUOW in Seattle. This episode includes graphic descriptions of sexual abuse. If you or someone you know needs support, text the word hope, H-O-P-E, to 64673. Please take care while listening. A boy had a crush on a girl from his high school. He told his mentor, a science teacher, who thought of ways for the boy to spend time with her. They drove to the woods an hour east of Seattle under the pretense that the teacher would show them how to drive stick shift in his Isuzu all-wheel drive truck.