The defendant’s father had previously spoken on the phone with Cleveland County SBI representative Amy Endicott about the case. Ms. Endicott had told him that she had just finished looking at hundreds of naked pictures of the plaintiff which were contained in the cell phone discovery package and that as far as the DA was concerned, the plaintiff had done nothing illegal. The Father asked Ms. Endicott if that was just an opinion of the DA or if that was the law. Ms. Endicott told him that she would speak with the DA about the situation and get back in touch with him with an answer. Ms. Endicott never got back in touch with him.
On the surface, the cell phone discovery package appeared to have no naked pictures of the plaintiff. During his personal investigation of the cell phone information in the discovery package the defendant found an obscure app which had been used at an earlier date to record and send information. When he opened the file he found a portion of what he had seen earlier. He believed that what he had found would be enough to convince the Cleveland County justice system that his claims were legitimate. His father and his uncle took this new information to the Cleveland County Sheriff. The Sheriff’s response was: That girl is crazy. They asked the sheriff what he could do to help. The sheriff told them that would be up to him and his lawyer.
Not long after this the Cleveland County justice system issued a restraining order to prevent the defendant or anyone in the defendant’s family from showing anything in the discovery package to anyone. The court’s claim was that innocent romantic partners could be harmed if this information was made public. The problem with that claim is that there was no picture of romantic partners included in the discovery package. It was apparent that all the “romantic partner” pictures had been deleted from the discovery package before it was sent to the lawyers, if there ever were any. The only pictures in the discovery package were self-made pictures of the plaintiff which were discovered by the defendant during his own personal investigation. Some of these self-made obscene pictures were made in her home and some of these self-made obscene pictures were made at her school while she was being paid by the state to teach ninth grade science.
Included in the discovery package were five or six days of text messages recovered from the plaintiff’s cell phone. In these text messages several things were found that violated school policy and general statutes of the state of North Carolina including the following: sexting while at school with students or former students, possessing illegal drugs on school property, trafficking illegal drugs while teaching school, unprofessional conduct, taking and disseminating self-made pictures of exposed breasts at school with her personal cell phone, taking self-made pictures masturbating while sitting at her desk during school hours (at school) with her personal cell phone, taking illegal pictures of students in the classroom without their knowledge, sending and receiving text messages on her personal cell phone at a rate of approximately 300 per day while teaching, and sending and receiving obscene text while teaching school.
What do they know and when did they know it? All the above information was delivered to the Cleveland County justice system by way of a download of a personal cell phone during April 2015. The Cleveland County justice system is guilty of one of two things. Either they never reviewed the discovery package, thereby exhibiting incompetence and negligence by not knowing about the above information, or they did review the discovery package and decided to cover it up because of a hasty rush to judgment. The Cleveland County justice system had an obligation under the general statutes of the state of North Carolina to advise the proper authorities of unacceptable conduct by any teacher at any public school. The Cleveland County justice system has let down our children by allowing such conduct as described above to continue to this day even though they have known about it for over three years. The Cleveland County school board has known about this for over three years. District 5 school board in Spartanburg County South Carolina has known about this for almost 3 years. Gaston County Schools were advised of this behavior and they chose to ignore it, Spartanburg County schools administration gave a good recommendation to Gaston County Schools when they let the plaintiff go for personal reasons. I wonder why.
