WESTMINSTER WEST-To Linda Hecker: Yes, apologies are due, but not to you. Apologies are due from you to all of the students and parents of students in your husband's classes at Brattleboro Union High School.
I am a parent of a 1995 grad, one who was not affected by Zeke Hecker's grooming and sexual molestation. I asked my daughter, and she said "He was weird." She steered clear.
But there are an awful lot of folks angry at you, Linda, because you stood by Zeke, did not call him out, did not warn of his child sexual abuse.
Whether or not you participated, you are complicit by not objecting in a way that would have caused him to cease his abuse of our teens.
That abuse is a burden they will likely carry for the rest of their lives.
Caitlin Adair
Westminster West
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