TikToker Breaks Down Recounting How Her History Teacher Groomed Her at 15: “That Actually Did F— Me Up”

A TikToker who goes by Nadia Salmon posted a video recounting being groomed by a former history teacher beginning when she was around 15 years old. https://www.tiktok.com/@luckyfrogprincess/video/7621685165932219679?_r1&_tZP-956llYtrTn5&sp_source7596305853881353742 Salmon said the teacher, who had previously instructed her in sixth or seventh grade, approached her after learning her boyfriend at the time was speaking negatively about her to teammates on a school basketball team he coached. "He comes up to me one day, and he's like, 'Hey, I just want you to know he's talking bad about you. I hope you're okay, because it's not cool, it's not nice. If you need anything, here's my number," Salmon recounted. She said he subsequently brought her food at school and helped her get into games, while their text exchanges gradually became inappropriate. "One day, the messages got inappropriate, and he was asking if I knew how to do certain things, and I was like, no. I've never really seen anything like that. I don't know how to do any of the stuff that you're saying I should know how to do," she said. "And so then he proceeds to tell me what to do, shows me, and this is all over text message." Salmon said she later learned he was married. "I didn't know he had a wife," she said. "I found out he had a wife, and then I was like, 'Wait, you have a wife?' And he's like, 'It's okay. It's like an open relationship." She described being too young to understand the situation. "I was literally so young. I did not understand how any of that shit worked," she said, adding that she eventually stopped responding to him. Salmon said she did not disclose the experience to anyone for roughly a year or two. The situation came to a head when she returned home for the summer and encountered the teacher at a community pool. Seeing him interact with children reignited her distress. "I don't know why, but that literally pissed me off so bad," she said. "I was just like, 'Damn.' Like, I literally would feel so gross knowing that she would one day, if he's still there, be in his class." She said she contacted him again, and he expressed interest in pursuing a romantic relationship. "He was telling me, 'Oh, I would love to take you on a date,'" Salmon said. "And I was just like, 'Bro, what? Like, was this your plan, like, the whole time?'" During that exchange, she said he admitted to having harbored romantic thoughts about her while she was still his student. "In our old messages, he was saying that whenever I was first in his class, he would have thoughts about me and wanted to see me in another kind of way," she said. "This whole time I was in your class, that's how you saw me? Like, that's literally how you saw me." When he began sending her videos of gifts his students had given him, she said it reminded her of herself at that age. "That shit just felt so gross and icky," she said. She said she then directly asked him to account for his past behavior. "I was just like, 'Are you sorry about anything you ever did to me? Like, that did f*ck me up in a way. Like, that actually did f*ck me up. Like, I was really, really young. I don't think that I should have been exposed to that," she recounted. Salmon said he apologized in writing, and she still retains screenshots of those messages. She then consulted another teacher about what to do. "I was like, 'I don't know what I should do. Like, should I say something? Should I not? Like, he is sorry," she said. "And that's whenever she said she had reported." The school's response left Salmon feeling dismissed. "He's got to resign, not even get fired, but it's whatever," she said. "It felt like nothing happened. It felt like nobody cared about this." Salmon said she briefly considered legal action but believes the statute of limitations has likely passed. "I don't even think I could do anything," she said. "I did want to do something cause the school never did anything. And that shit really freaked me out." She said her parents were supportive but largely unaware of the full scope of what had occurred. "I couldn't even go into detail with my parents about what happened," she said. "They literally didn't know anything. Back then, even when things were wrong, I would go home, pretend I was fine." Salmon also said the experience drove her toward alcohol as a coping mechanism. "That's also what got me to drink a lot more during that time, because I did not want to deal with any of it," she said. She said she still struggles to fully process the experience. "I don't know how to deal with any of this. Like, I still I'm like, trying to process this because it's like, actually did kind of f*ck me up a little bit," she said. "Like, I just can't deal with it. Like, even whenever I'm trying to think about it right now, I feel like I just can't even process it in my head." Despite her frustration, Salmon said she has tried to make peace with the outcome. "I do forgive him and stuff like that, but at the same time it's just like, why wasn't this shit taken seriously when I brought it up?" she said. "I literally didn't want to speak up, and I had told him I didn't want to speak up if nothing was gonna happen. That's honestly how it felt." She said she hopes accountability will come eventually. "One day he's gonna, I don't know, I guess pay for it," she said. If you or someone you know has experienced sexual misconduct involving a minor, contact the RAINN National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 or visit rainn.org.

TikToker Breaks Down Recounting How Her History Teacher Groomed Her at 15: “That Actually Did F— Me Up”

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