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A journalist revisits a decision to report on a teacher for sexual abuse

NPR | By Mallory Yu,
Emily Feng, Tinbete Ermyas
Published May 3, 2026 at 5:24 PM EDT

Investigative journalist Isolde Raftery of KUOW explains why, two decades later, she re-investigated her own reporting on a teacher accused of sexual abuse.

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