Amy Victoria Beck – It Just Got Weird in My Social Circle
I have two children in the Burbank public school system. I love the public schools here. I am friends with several teachers and administrators, I coach baseball in the community, and yes, some of the players on our team are students from David Starr Jordan Middle School.
When my wife walked in earlier this week and told me that a 33 year-old teacher from “Jordan” had an inappropriate relationship with a 14 year-old student, I couldn’t be shocked. Such is life. However, I immediately thought it had to be a dude. I was wrong.
Amy Victoria Beck, Mrs. Beck to the students of Jordan Middle School, waltzed into the Burbank Police Department with an attorney, and confessed to multiple acts of lewd, illegal sex acts with a child under the age of 16. Four instances of sexual intercourse, and one instance of oral copulation. Unfortunately, in order to make an arrest, and officially charge someone with wrong-doing, there has to be a crime committed. Detectives had to check out the story with the student, who affirmed the accusations made by Beck, against herself. She was then arrested, charged, had bail set at an outrageous amount and has continued to sit in jail all week.
It gets weirder. Beck is the wife of Burbank Police Officer Nathaniel Beck, and the mother of three children. Apparently the acts took place during the previous school year with an 8th grade student, and continued until September of 2009, after the student had advanced to the high-school level.
Sure, this is yesterday’s news, but the story keeps getting more and more odd. My feelings associated with it are of utter confusion. I’m just thrilled this is a blog, and that I don’t have to offer any journalistic integrity.
I don’t know if it’s a good thing that nobody is really talking about it, or a bad thing that NOBODY is really talking about it. And when I mean talking about it, I mean telling kids at school that such behavior isn’t a good thing, regardless of what your adolescent buddies might suggest. It just seems to be one of those things that nobody wants to talk about.
Maybe it’s too fresh. Maybe people are still in shock. After all, Beck was an outstanding, well-respected teacher who never received a complaint before unexpectedly resigning a week ago, obviously due to the burden of her guilt. In some strange way, I admire her for confessing to her wrong doing, and maybe that’s what nobody wants to say? But to stand trial for it? There has to be so much more to this story.
(Image via: CBS News)
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