Family Heals After Teacher-Student Relationship

The first shock for Michelle Palmer was finding out that a 27-year-old coach and teacher was driving out to her Iowa farm in the dead of night, sneaking into her house through a basement door, and having sex with her 16-year-old daughter.

The next shock was discovering that he couldn't be charged with a crime.

Not that there haven't been consequences for Robert P. Davidson, the man Ms. Palmer used to know only as her daughter's social studies teacher and basketball coach. He had to quit his job at the local public high school and has lost his teaching...

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