Nov. 7, 2025

Gas Station Weed, Four Phones, Zero Alibis Jacob Wessel Part 3

A trusted mentor. Four phones. Hundreds of messages. We trace how a robotics “helper” turned access into leverage and mentorship into control, grooming a 17-year-old through flattery, secrecy, and fear. The story unfolds in stages: off-campus meetups, gas station weed, a house visit that became a crime scene, and a flight to a rural hideout where deputies later seized devices and a firearm. What emerges through texts, diary entries, and an interview is a pattern that experts recognize: minimize boundaries, isolate the target, reframe coercion as care, and blame “primal nature” when caught.

We walk through the timeline from the first contact to delayed disclosure, explaining why many survivors need time to speak and how Indiana’s mandatory reporting laws apply to any adult who learns of abuse. The seized digital evidence matters: workstations, hard drives, a tablet, and messaging apps that enable secrecy. In his own words, the accused admits attraction to younger people, claims he can control urges, and insists age is “a legal problem,” not a moral one. Those statements aren’t slips—they’re a window into intent, entitlement, and the rationalizations that let grooming thrive in plain sight.

This conversation isn’t just about one case; it’s a checklist for prevention. We unpack school oversight failures, credential gaps, and the need for bright-line boundaries: no private texting between staff and students, two-adult supervision rules, transparent communication channels, and third‑party audits. For families, we share practical steps: monitor secondary apps, set exit phrases for unsafe situations, and debrief after any one-on-one mentorship. And to survivors: your voice matters, your timing is valid, and corroboration is possible.

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Disclaimer: All defendants are INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY in a court of law. All facts are alleged until a conviction!

00:00 - Trigger Warning & Hosts Reconnect

01:37 - Recap Of Jacob Wessel’s Earlier Allegations

04:50 - Why He Ran: New Charges Emerge

06:25 - The “Delayed Rape” Report Explained

10:55 - Timeline: Mentorship To Abuse

17:29 - Grooming Tactics In His Own Words

23:14 - Escalation: Car Encounters And Threats

27:54 - Salisbury Hideout & Search Warrant

32:29 - Digital Evidence Seized

35:49 - The Interview: Admissions And Minimizing

41:09 - School Oversight, Reporting Laws, Accountability

45:39 - Community Message, Victim Support, Closing

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Welcome back, 69 South.

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What's good, everybody?

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I'm Chop, your host, and with me always is my gorgeous, beautiful co-host, Julie.

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What's good, girl?

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Everything's good in the studio, that is.

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That's good in the studio.

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It seems like you've been getting a little bit of fan, man.

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I guess people's realizing who the fuck you really are.

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Kind of trippy guy.

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I hate it.

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I love it.

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That's my baby.

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I'm proud of your ass.

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Oh, goodness.

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Let's get into it, man.

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If you guys are fans of ours and listen to all our shit, then you know who the fuck Jacob Wessel is.

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We got the first episode.

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It's about Adderall and Text messages and Adderall.

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Yeah, he was a teacher, robotics teacher.

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Had a little girl sitting on his lap and sneaking him some Adderall, a little bit of weed, probably doing some fucked up shit with him.

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This dude ain't stopped in like two days after we dropped our second episode.

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Yeah, because he got he got some more charges after that.

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He was on the run for a long time.

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But he This is the cat that was posted up in Indianapolis, and we just found out he was posted up down in Salisbury, which is a little cool ass town down in Green County.

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Y'all know that, y'all know ya, you who's or whatever the fuck that little story is down there.

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I love Salisbury, man.

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I used to go down and go fishing in the river and shit, and there's some cool ass people down there.

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But he was posted up down in Salisbury.

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What happened down there in Salisbury that made him skip the nap?

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Well, we'll get into that later.

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All right.

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Because it's good.

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I'm jumping ahead, baby.

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I know you are.

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So, so this dude fucked up again, even kind of worse than he did before.

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And I'm telling you what, I think this is, I think, I think this is one of the main parts of the reason he was on the run.

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Because when he was on the run, you know, he wrote the letters to the court, please, crying like a baby, please squash the warrant and let me come in on my own.

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Let me come in, yeah.

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That was the dude we said, oh, let me come in and and squash the warrant, let me pay bail so I don't go in the county, get my motherfucking ass whooped because I'm a a bitch ass chomo, basically, right?

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Basically.

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I mean, spit the truth.

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So anyway, before he got a chance to get captured, he got more charges put on him.

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And it's just so much with this dude.

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I can't even remember the oh, the second set of charges was um dissemination of matter harmful to a child for when more victims had came forward after we told the initial story about him showing him porn in a car ride to a soccer game.

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Oh, this was that dude too?

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This motherfucker, man.

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And we it's crazy because we do so many cases.

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We'll go, we'll be talking and go back and be like, hey, do you remember such and such?

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And you're like, what case is that from?

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And you're like, I gotta see a picture or something to know what you're talking about.

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So and then you'll remember.

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Now it's all clicking to me.

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This is the dude that was giving kids Adderall.

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This is the dude that was showing uh fucking anime porn.

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Anime porn and driving with his motherfucking knees.

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Yes, this is the soccer game.

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Yes, y'all gotta go back and listen to the Jacob Wessel episodes to make this one make sense.

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But what Miss Julie was trying to say was now we know why this motherfucker was on the run because he didn't know which charges he was gonna get.

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Because I'm telling you what, just by my own observations and what I think and feel, I feel like there are so many, I feel like there's more victims out there.

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Like, I I just feel it in my spirit.

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There is, I know there is.

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If y'all was a victim of Jacob Wessel, hit us up.

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We keep your anonymity safe, and we're gonna tell this motherfucker.

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But hit the police up first.

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Hit the police up first.

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Yes, and let them know.

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And we won't say your name.

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So let's get into what's fucking new charges are.

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Please.

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I can't believe this shit, really.

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I was floored when I seen this.

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I dropped my damn iPhone.

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I was tearing out some concrete today.

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I was like, Jason, Jacob Wessel, a fucking guin?

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Are you kidding me?

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And thanks to Angela Gnotte, uh, you know, I seen it on Angela Gnotte's Facebook, and I was like, oh my god, because you usually I check, you know, to try to keep updates posted and stuff like that.

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And I had seen her that she posted that, and I was like, you have got to be kidding me.

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Angela Gnot, we're gonna give you a shout out, girl, because we know your ass listens to us.

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You ain't gonna say it, it's all good.

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We know your ass listens to us, whatever.

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We know you do.

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Anyway, let's just get right into it.

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So on 519-25, Detective Dotson, which is a Morgan County detective, he was contacted by an Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Detective.

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He was investigating a delayed rape investigation involving Mr.

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Jacob Wessel.

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So on the same night, and let me, this is 9 30 p.m.

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at night on a Monday, officer Therese from IMPD, she was dispatched to Decatur High School on Kentucky Avenue, the southwest side of Indian Indianapolis to investigate to investigate a report of a delayed rape.

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What's what do they mean by delayed rape?

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You mean delayed investigation?

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Like they didn't report it when it happened.

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This is a few months later, you know, because it can take victims time to come forward.

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That shit is scary.

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Sometimes they don't want to say shit because they're embarrassed.

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Right.

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They're embarrassed.

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They black they self-blame themselves, you know what I mean?

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Like it's my fault because maybe I looked a little bit too good to this old man or whatever.

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I mean, but I'm just being real.

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But still, it's not their fault.

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No, hell no, it ain't especially if they're children.

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But that's what they mean by delayed investigation.

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Yeah, I mean, it could be from the they could be, I mean, if it's a minor, they could be scared of what their parents are gonna think.

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They could be scared of a gang of shit, really.

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You know what other students and kids are gonna think if they find out what what you know, it's this shame in it, which if you're a victim, you shouldn't have any shame at all.

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You know, it's not your buttons.

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You're probably gonna feel that, in which you shouldn't at all.

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You shouldn't, but you know they are.

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And the reporting victim's mother.

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So the chaplain met with the officer, and he told the officer that he had a victim.

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She was a 17-year-old female at the time the incident happened, but she was now 18, and that she confided in him and said that her mentor, Jacob Wessel, from Mooresville Christian Academy, raped her back in February of 2025, of the, you know, this year.

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So after the victim confided in the chaplain, he immediately contacted the victim's mother as he should have.

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He helped the victim tell her mother that she was raped by her teacher and her mentor.

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They immediately called the popo.

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Okay, I just want to remind people real quick here in Indiana, the reporting laws for, you know, child abuse or child sexual abuse, the person to report has to be the person who witnessed what happened or the person that the victim told.

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And also, uh a lot of these schools are were getting by with this loophole because well, the victim didn't actually tell me, even though it's up to the principal knowing, or this and that.

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The victim didn't tell me, they told somebody else, so I don't have to report.

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That's kind of like a little loophole.

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They was getting by on some he said she said type shit, right?

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Yeah.

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So but the law in Indiana is like like uh if you tell if if a nurse gets told or uh somebody from a clergy, like a chaplain or a teacher.

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It's any adult.

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Any adult has the responsibility to report child abuse or child sexual as it fucking should be, or anything like that.

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So the officer speaks with the victim.

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She says that Wessel was her tech mentor slash robotics teacher.

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And then on the probable cause affidavit, it said that through all you could really see was a Christian.

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So I'm assuming she means Mooresville Christian Academy, which was where Wessel was associated with.

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So on Saturday, February 22nd, 2025, this is a week before her 18th birthday, folks.

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Victim asked her mom if she can stay the night at Mr.

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Wessel's because his daughter was going to be home back from college that weekend around 5 p.m.

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Wessel picked her up and took her back to his house.

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Now the victim stated that his daughter wasn't in the car and did not return home from college that weekend.

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When they arrived back at Wessel's house, he wanted to show her something.

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I bet he fucking did.

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Not sure what he wanted to show her, but we can assume it was his dick, probably, because Wessel had the victim get in the bed and ordered her to take her clothes off.

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This is all allegedly, folks, but this is from the victim's mouth.

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So the victim told him no.

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A few moments passed by awkwardly, assuming, with him trying to entice her to undress.

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I'm sure under peer under pressure or fear of coercion, she reluctantly takes off her clothes but leaves her underwear on.

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Wessel then takes it upon himself to put his hands on her and removes the victim's underwear.

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She stated she was so uncomfortable.

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I bet she fucking was, poor girl.

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I mean, it's can you imagine her mindset like, oh my god, this is my robotics teacherslash mentor.

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Remind us how old this, remind us how old this Wessel cat is, right quick.

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I don't know why I want to say 45, but he's in his in between 40 and 45.

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And this girl's 17 years old.

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Of course, she felt uncomfortable.

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I mean, come, oh my god, this motherfucker.

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So Wessel then tells the victim, Oh, you're just nervous.

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Grooming.

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Because she had never had sexual intercourse before.

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She was a virgin.

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Wessel began to forcefully, and here's where some of the redactions cut out in the statement.

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Wessel forcefully touched or kissed, penetrated or fondled the victim with something.

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We can assume because it cuts out, and we can't really, you know, see what it goes into or or or what it says.

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So then what happened?

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It may well, Wessel ended up, this is so gross, ejaculating in her vaginal area.

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She said two and a half times that night.

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She stated the final time he didn't get off, but you know, they still had some type of relation, so it counts as three in my book.

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Wessel's other two children and Wessel's stepfather were also at the home at the time.

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The younger of the two children was said to have observed the victim and Wessel in a cuddling position on the couch in his home.

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The next morning, which was a Sunday, February 23rd, the victim returned home.

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Wessel drove her home.

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The victim has hundreds of text messages from Wessel speaking out about encounters or incidents or conversations that they have had.

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Wessels also sent pictures of his penis to this young minor girl.

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This motherfucker.

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Victim stated that he has four phones.

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Damn, Kevin Gates only had two.

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And sometimes message her from Discord.

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See that Discord, man.

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Every time I hear Discord.

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I ain't even trying to type in D I S on my fucking phone.

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Fuck Discord.

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But anyway, he also emails her.

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She stated sh okay.

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This is what got me.

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She stated she broke up with Wessel through text message one day.

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And what I got from the PCA was that I don't think that he had responded.

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So they were in a relationship together.

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They were together like a boyfriend and girlfriend.

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And she texted him and they break up.

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Get the fuck out of here.

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This dude was 40-something and she was 17.

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He was come the fuck on, man.

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Yeah.

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I like smack fuck out of this dude.

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I'm just being real.

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But, you know, they probably charged me with some bullshit.

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Anyway, the officer advised the victim to not contact Wessel.

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She was very compliant and agreed.

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The officer then contacted sex crimes detectives.

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Now, the victim's mother stated that she had the iPhone and iPad with all of the messages and pictures for detectives.

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So sex crimes detectives are interviewing the victim.

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She advised detectives that Wessel had assaulted her in Morgan County sometime January 2025.

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And then the final sexual assault in February 2025.

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And I I I don't know if I want to say final there, because you you never know what's happened.

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Even when a victim comes forward, sometimes they they don't want to tell everything just because of fear of they shame and they feel like you know people think they were in the wrong or whatever.

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But you know what?

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You you are a child and you were clearly groomed.

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This dude must have like uh like he he must have some game because I've looked at picture of this dude and you would think I'm just saying this dude's an ugly motherfucker, man.

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You you would think I could see it if he looked like Clark Kent, you know what I'm saying?

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Or uh, you know, like a Johnny Edrington.

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Yeah, like Johnny Ederton, man.

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Go back and listen to that shit.

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Johnny Edrington was a good looking dude.

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If you look like Johnny Edgerton, you could, you know, if you was trying to, if you was trying to fuck up and commit some crimes and be a little bitch and get into some young girls' panties and you was a handsome kind of look young, but this dude's an ugly ass motherfucker, man.

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I I just don't, he must have game, like I don't know, he had four phones.

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No, he ain't got no game.

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Why do you think he's trying to fuck with kids?

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Kids don't know game, kids don't know nothing.

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They just know they think, oh, some boy, even if it's a grown man, they think, oh, some boy likes me, some boy's interested in me.

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You know, it makes me think about it.

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I know some boy.

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Some boy, though, not some ugly ass 45-year-old fucking robotics teacher.

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But when you're a young girl, if an old older grown man is showing you some attention like that, that makes you feel important, and he knew that.

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Yeah, I guess.

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So, anyway, from the the the parent interview, the victim received Wessel's phone number from another student at Mooresville Christian Academy because her daughters, what she said was a problem solver.

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And the victim reached out to Wessel first, but only because she was trying to help her other friend.

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Now, it is alleged that Wessel asked the victim to reach out to another girl for him, stating she was going to get Wessel and an unknown girl, a student at the school, is what I have to be assuming here because she's so young.

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Get them back together.

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Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold up.

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So she was trying to hook Wessel and another I mean, we don't know, alleged back.

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Hooked back up.

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Like fix the real or fix things by sending the unknown girl an email or a message on messenger or some other type of way of communicating with her.

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Right.

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So that just tells you right there that there's another victim of Wessel.

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That's fucked up.

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Well, when it becomes clear that the unknown girl was not going to speak with Wessel, he begins to focus back on the victim that we're referring to.

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Okay.

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Yeah, and so he did.

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Wessel would meet the victim and smoke pot with her at a new park at the end of Prey Street in Monrovia.

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Look, man, I get visions in my head.

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Yeah, like I hear something, and like I can't help it, but I see the fucking TV show in my head.

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I'm thinking of this ugly ass robotics teacher sitting on a park bench smoking a joint with a 17-year-old girl who's 45, whatever the fuck how oldie is.

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It just don't make sense to me, man.

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No.

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Let me just put this out there before we get back in the story.

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You young women, you young girls, when from 10 to 18, you're a beautiful flower just blooming, man.

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Don't be fucking around with old dudes.

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No, any dudes.

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Any dudes, really, but especially, I mean, don't let these motherfuckers get in your head, please.

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They want to hit it, you know, quit it.

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They don't give a fuck.

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Let's be real.

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So while they were at the park, or I don't know if it was while they were at the park, but on another encounter they had together, he also attempted to give her an unwanted pill.

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Let's assume it's Adderall, like it was the other girl.

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Who knows what the fuck it was?

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It may be a date rape type shit.

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It it could have been.

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Mother states that she has not read all of the communications from Wessel.

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She probably put the fucking phone down because she couldn't read no more because it makes her physically ill.

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Which it would any mother.

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Any mother.

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And I bet you this mother is ready to kill.

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Like she just, you know, she wants to get in that cell with this dude and just wrap her hands around his neck and just give him what he's got coming to him.

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Boy, we got granddaughters this age in Monrovia, and I cannot tell you what the fuck I would do if this shit, the robotics teacher.

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Oh, I just I don't even want to talk about it.

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The mother recalls messages of the sexual encounters between her daughter and Wessel.

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In one instant, her daughter stated that she had said no to this dude, and Russell replied, Well, no doesn't always mean no.

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Fuck him for that.

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No fucking means no, bro.

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Now, multiple messages that led her to believe there were multiple physical encounters starting in February before her daughter turned 18.

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He learned that Wessel told the victim if her mom found out about their relationship, Wessel would shoot her in the face.

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The mother that is.

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So he told the girl, oh, if your mom finds out about this, I'm shooting her in the face.

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This motherfucker's not a good thing.

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That ain't no shit to be played with.

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I've been shot in the face.

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Okay.

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Yeah, you're blessed to be here.

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Thank the good lord for that.

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So the mom provided an electronic tablet that was the victim's, along with a diary that had been kept by the victim.

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In the journal, the victim writes about the rape event that occurred in Morgan County.

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The mother also informed that Wessel would use fake names.

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Sometimes George Thompson, what a fucking name.

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Like you know, it's funny.

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Every time everybody wants to use an ignorant ass fucking name or a fake name, it's always gotta be George for some reason.

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Why is that always the first dumbass name that people use?

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I'm just saying.

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No offense to our first president, of course.

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Maybe because most Georges are predators.

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Man, it just seems like no offense to the good Georges, but yeah, there's good Georges, I'm sure.

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But I ain't met one yet.

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Neither have I.

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Matter of fact, probably one of our listeners, George Walls, he's a good friend of mine.

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He's a good dude.

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But that's one out of a fucking thousand.

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Anyway, let's move it on.

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Well, so that's what happened.

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And now I'm gonna get into the digital evidence.

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And in this PCA, it also contains an interview with Mr.

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Jacob Wessel himself.

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So I can't wait to hear this shit.

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Let's get into what this digital evidence found and into this Wessel interview.

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I'm just letting y'all know we're trying to pull the PCA up, and Miss Julie keeps having to remind me how to double-click and slide shit.

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Anyway, okay, there you go.

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So we start with some of this digital evidence that was found on one of these devices, and it begins like this.

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So, like Miss Julie said, this is a message from Jacob Wessel to the victim.

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It says, Yes, because I do care.

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So I will care about you and your health, but as you also know, I won't give you as much of a hard time about eating as others do.

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That was weird to me.

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Like, why would a teacher or mentor or robotics instructor be giving any time or any type of advice on eating to any student?

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You're not an intrusionist.

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Maybe the girl maybe had a either an eating problem or you know what I'm saying?

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Or that's weird, though.

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Maybe somebody was making her feel insecure about her looking for a while.

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Regardless of what it was, the dude was playing on her motherfucking institutions.

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Yes.

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He said, like that.

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And truth though, about blank another victim, is I did catch feelings for her.

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That is as more than friends, but I never acted on it.

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We clicked on a different level, but not a good one.

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Kind of like you and Jacob.

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But you know you have interest, but you also know how bad that would probably end up.

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Me and Blank was that way too.

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You have made me think about all of that a lot, actually.

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Anyway, people aren't totally wrong about me being able to fall for younger people.

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Wow, so right there, he's admitting that he falls for younger girls, meaning younger girls under the age of 18 years of age.

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The way this dude looks, I mean, he's a fucking nerdy 45.

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You cannot get over his looks.

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Nah, he's a goofy ass fucking dude.

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I'm just saying he was he okay, look.

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Motherfuckers, like you talk about, what do you say?

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Like a um, what does it say?

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Like a uh like how an ugly swan or an ugly duckling grows up to be a beautiful swan, right?

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Uh-huh.

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Okay.

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So kind of like me.

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Yeah, but just kidnapped.

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Baby, you've been beautiful since the day you since you took a breath of God's clean air in my eyes.

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But what I'm saying is, is this dude wasn't never good looking.

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He was always an ugly motherfucking nerdy ass dude.

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Uh-huh.

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So I think I think he's playing on his um like his he's got integrity and he's got fucking No, you know what it was?

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He was a bigger dude, and he uh got on one of them weight loss drugs, I think, and lost like hundreds of pounds.

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Like, kind of like the Britney Peterson.

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Oh, yeah, here on Six Shen I South.

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She said she lost Fortinberry syndrome.

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Oh, MG.

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Well, fuck.

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Lost a lot of weight.

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Maybe I look good, getting some attention from these young people.

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I didn't get attention from no young people when I was a kid.

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I'm trying to get now.

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I mean, that's what it adds up to.

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Come on, let's be real.

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Yeah, 100%.

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This motherfucker, man.

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Shit.

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Sorry, I get so distracted talking about this fucking dude.

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But anyway, back to the PCA.

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That is true.

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Blank, but I'm not a bad person, and I respect people, and you know that.

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But make no mistake, and this is true of any guy, almost any age, and true of me too.

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Just because I have respect and I am not a predator does not mean I wouldn't if there was an opportunity.

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Remember that of all men, primal nature and hormones are powerful, and demons come along and make that worse.

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But and this is true of the church too.

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They understand all of this.

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The school and the church and Peter's are actually trying to protect me.

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They know that my heart is good and they all understand.

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They don't see age as a problem, they see the law as a problem, if that all makes sense.

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I want to be more up front with you before you become any more attached because people will catch on to a person having feelings for someone.

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I don't want problems for you.

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I don't want to be in the way.

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I don't want to be a problem.

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Knowing me is enough of a problem for most, and only some say, screw it, I'm all in.

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Think about all this because I don't want you to think all of this isn't on my mind, and I wouldn't, and believe me, when I say all of this isn't on my mind, I wouldn't stop it.

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I'll tell you like I did.

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It's all up to you.

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Why this motherfucker is.

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And this is the letter, or this is a message that he had sent to this victim.

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So Peters is Bruce Peters was the principal Mooresville Christian Academy.

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I got some shit to say about this shit, too.

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So the context is a manipulative blend of faux reassur reassurance, self-justification, and boundary pushing that exemplifies grooming tactics.

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As an adult in a position of authority over minors, Wessel's words are not just inappropriate, they're predatory, legally fraught, and ethically bankrupt.

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Below, I'll break down everything wrong with what he's saying, using direct quotes for clarity.

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My own analysis draws from established patterns of grooming described.

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by organizations like Rain and the FBI's behavioral analysis on child exploitation, power and balances in teacher-student dynamics and the legal standards for educator misconduct.

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So first of all what he's doing is he's minimizing his own predatory behavior while feigning, caring and feigning his faking while caring about this person.

00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:33.039
Hey, let me ask you one thing right quick.

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Does this dude got daughters?

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Yes.

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See that just fucks my whole world.

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Yes, his daughter was friends with this girl.

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Basically what this dude's saying is uh we're in the caveman situation and any girl that has her period uh any man of any age is going to be turned on to this female and it's all good.

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That's what this motherfucker's saying but I'm telling you right now I have daughters that are in their 30s now and and I just cannot even fucking I fathom I cannot even fathom like it's not even looking at my own daughter it's looking at anybody their age that's right come on man it's a fucked up dude.

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Now Wessels here's what's wrong.

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Wessel starts with a condescending pat on the back when he says yes because I do care so I will care about your health but as you also know I won't give you as much of a hard time about eating as others do.

00:31:38.799 --> 00:31:43.200
Yeah like why would he even get he don't give a fuck what she's eating.

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Maybe this girl has a weight problem or something man and that's why he's saying that you don't even have to be a weight a weight problem.

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She could be perfectly beautiful and you know in her mind think she's not set to the Instagram standards or TikTok standards or the standards of social media.

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