EXCLUSIVE: On Sunday, a 42-year-old Florida gym teacher was arrested for allegedly having “an ongoing inappropriate sexual relationship” with a 15-year-old pupil. But the disturbing claims didn’t come as much of a surprise to multiple former students.
On Sunday, a 42-year-old Florida gym teacher was arrested for allegedly having “an ongoing inappropriate sexual relationship” with a 15-year-old pupil.
The woman, now 21, said she still had a relationship with Hankerd until Sunday night, when she saw a post by the Port Orange Police Department. At that point, she said all of the “red flags” she ignored for years sunk in, and she claims she contacted police to tell her story the next morning. The Ormond Beach Police Department confirmed to The Daily Beast that an interview has been scheduled for later this week with a woman regarding Hankerd’s arrest.
The 21-year-old added that she knows “for certain” that Hankerd began dating at least one other teenager “the second” she graduated from high school in 2016 because he openly talked about it. The girl was a former teammate of hers on the school’s soccer team. “I didn’t really have any personal experiences, there were always rumors that he was dating students and he flirted with them,” Cody Garrison, who attended from 2015 to 2018, told The Daily Beast in a Facebook message. “Just felt like all the rumors were confirmed after he got arrested and it’s sad it took this long.”
Court records indicate that Hankerd went through a divorce in 2016. His former wife did not respond to multiple calls and messages sent by The Daily Beast. “Nope,” the girl responded, according to the affidavit. “Like I said, tried to stay innocent for as long as I could.”
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