Weston Phippen: TAMPA — Addison Allen was 16, about to start her senior year at Tampa’s Robinson High School, when the police called. They wanted to talk about the rumors.
Several students had said she was having sex with her European History teacher. One told an officer he’d seen text messages between the two and they’d gone on a date to see The Avengers at WestShore Plaza.
Impossible, thought Lynn Allen, Addison’s mother, as the officer stood near their dining table that summer day in 2012. They’d seen the movie as a family.
“So nothing happened?” the mother asked her daughter.
“No,” Addison said and walked upstairs to her bedroom.
The officer left. Her mother and father went into her room. After a long silence, Lynn asked her husband to leave. She looked hard at her daughter.
“It’s all true,” Lynn said, “isn’t it?”
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