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Debbie Noda / Zuma Press
Former Enochs High School student Jordan Powers, 18, and James Hooker, 41, a teacher who recently resigned from the school, talk about their relationship on March 27.
A Modesto, Calif., teen student who made national news when she and her high school teacher moved in together said Saturday she broke off their relationship after he was arrested on a charge of earlier abusing another student.
Jordan Powers, 18, told ABC News that when Christopher James Hooker, 41, called her from jail after his arrest Friday she told him, "We're done."
During Saturday's interview with ABC, Powers said she had "lost everything for this guy."
"I lost my senior year. I gave up all my friends at high school because they didn't agree with me," said the former Enochs High School student.
Powers told ABC News that Hooker told her he met the other student, who was 17 in 1998, online.
“He hung out with her just as friends and then he went to her house and she came out of the bathroom naked and he only touched her boobs and her legs," Powers said. "He was freaked out so he left and went home. He said nothing else happened, but all of that was a lie."
The teen said she believed the woman came forward now to help her see the truth about Hooker and rescue her from the relationship.
"My heart dropped. I felt betrayed. I just have a gut feeling there are other girls," Powers said, according to the ABC News interview.
Police said the other teen was a 17-year-old student in 1998, when Hooker was teaching at Modesto’s Davis High School. Police were already investigating whether there was a criminal case involving Hooker’s relationship with Powers when the allegation of the 1998 incident emerged.
After being booked Friday on one count of oral copulation with a minor, Hooker made a brief court appearance where a judge entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. Hooker was released from the Stanislaus County Jail after posting $50,000 bail, the Modesto Bee reported.
Earlier: Ex-California teacher who moved in with student arrested on 1998 molestation charge
Powers and Hooker moved in together in February, with Powers dropping out of school and Hooker quitting his teaching job there and leaving his wife and three children.
The two appeared on national talk shows and in interviews, and maintained they didn't have a sexual relationship until she turned 18. But police are still investigating whether there was inappropriate contact before that.
Jordan Powers’ mother, Tammie Powers, said that after Hooker was arrested, she helped her daughter move out of the small apartment the two shared.
The mother and daughter have left for an undisclosed location out of the area, The Modesto Bee reported.
"She is safe, and I'm glad of that, and I'm elated that he's in custody," Tammie Powers told the newspaper.
This article includes reporting by The Associated Press.
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There's more to complain about bad drivers than teenage sexcapades.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a story that has normal people with a nice ending once in a while.
girlfriend don't know any normal people
Denis, I think this IS a nice ending. The girl grew up a little and realized that she didn't want to be stuck with a 40-year-old teenager.
Denis, Those kinds of stories have no place in today's news.. Sorry dude. Pretty despicable!
As if this should surprise anyone. What a low life he is. He has managed to hurt "everyone" around him. Most pedophiles hide what they do... not him... he stood proud in front of national media. Not that he gave a rats tail, but I truly hope his children are not screwed up for life over this. As a parent and grand parent, it's hard for me to think that someone could do this with no regard for his kids. But I guess a pedophile is a pedophile is a pedophile. Once he's found guilty and put in prison, justice will be served in a manner that it should be. Have no pity on him Bubba for he is but a fool.
And for all of you who stuck up for him in the previous articles... I say... Told ya so! hahahahaha!
At least neither one of them was a cross dressing sadist suffering from a bout of anhedonia. Maybe they both enjoyed reading Greek plays after school.
I think they are both a couple of narcississtic douche bags. Neither one had a heart for the children and wife. This little slut is just loving all the attention. She blames him for losing her friends and senior year. Slut made that choice herself. As far as her being an innocent kid bull@!$%#. What are ppl getting more stupid? I always find it interesting that everyone thinks teens are too young to decide who to sleep with but they are intelligent enough to raise a human being? Think about it!
This girl knows
... THAT SHE'S THE FOOL - RIGHT?????
The teacher? He SCORED!!!
Buwahahahahahahaha!
And I thought it was true love...
It always amazes me... humans are so stupid.
Or perhaps I shouldn't be amazed at all.
Standby to be a m a z e d
Next Headline they had sex before she was 18?
Ya think?!
Dummy, he was cheating on his wife with YOU. Did you think you were getting a gem?
Hopefully your brain will file this experience away and you'll learn at least 1 thing: Don't have an affair with a married man.
How much you want to bet? She learned from her peer group, and her parents. The remainder of her behavior was determined by her own choices, her lack of inhibition, and her ongoing desire to gain power by having new experiences!
I feel bad. Every girl deserves to go to the prom with the man they love. This is truly a sad story!
I wouldn't be too sure of that. You should ask her how she feels. Many highschools are t h e e worst environment for modelling romance of any kind.
And he looks like such a dumb jerk. Weren't there any nice guys her age in that school? Or was he spending all the money he should have been giving to his family on her? Can't imagine what an 18 year old girl would see in him at all.
Well, at least now his wife is rid of him.
DOH! Stupid little girl, "felt betrayed...had a gut feeling there were other girls". Yeah, GIRLS...LITTLE GIRLS, just like YOU!!!
He's a CHEATING DISGUSTING PERV! He cheated ON HIS WIFE WITH YOU!
I have NO sympathy!
He will find plenty of love in prison...lol. I can hear the story now, cell block six gets a new Hooker.
Alert the media. They're terrible at doing follow up. Virtually no reporters visit prisons..
We all make mistakes. Fortunately for this young lady she realized what a sleeze bag this guy was. She has a chance now with her Mom's help to get her life back on track. I hope she will finish high school and go on to college and get a good education and realize she does not need a man to make her happy. Happiness comes from within. An intelligent, confident, independent woman will attract a real man and not a predator!
I remember seeing them on Dr. Phil last month. All I could think was that at the age of 18, she isn't going to listen to anyone, and the more people pushed to get her away from him the more she would cling to him. I know when I was 18 you couldn't tell me anything because I knew everything!
Sorry she got hurt, but that is the only way that some people learn.
Any 41 year old going after a teenager is a predator! And he looked very creepy to me.
You must have missed the story. Or maybe you didn't run with a fast crowd in HS. Both of them were all over each other before the split.
BRAVO AND GOOD GIRL! You know you have Brain that has common sense after all !
If you look up "Moron" you see a picture of this fool, I gave them two weeks - was close.
Good thing for vaginal reconstructive surgery!
Is anyone else getting a really creepy feeling about ChuckTN's comments? Hair on back of neck kind of thing.
No, only school marms get riled by hookers and porn stars.
What is a school marm?
A euphemism for sociopath.
You are an idiot!
Ok my comment is coming from me being a father of 2 daughters now grown. First: laws laws laws...they will be broken..but who should the law be against the man who we say should have known better or agaisnt a manipulative young lady who possibly flaunted herself all over the teacher..and let me reverese that comment since there have been female teachers also that had affairs with younger students in thier class....and recently on TV she married him...and had a child.......you can make a million laws and it definitely won't solve the problem...me personally I think his JUNK should get cut off...but I am sure she is not innocent...so make it a law all JUNK gets removed when your caught with someone that is a minor...or male teachers will educate male students and females for females....
These kind of June to July things never last no matter how young or old the two people are, lust is not love, it is just that lust, she is too young to understand that the older man is like a father to her, once that wears off what have you got? You have too people who have nothing in common except maybe a TV set and hamburgers and that gets old quick! I feel bad for all concerned a family is now broken up the teacher has lost his career, a girl is going to miss one of the best years of her life and the man's family will never be the same and all over a little girl who is not a women but just a little girl and should have her little butt spanked!
How Horrendous!!! There should be laws to protect ex-teachers!! This scandalous little girl stole his heart, and is now leaving him to rot in Jail!! How Despicable! I'm saddened as well that ex-teacher's have to go through such trauma. My hopes and prayers go out to this honorable gentleman.
Well, 1 pedophile in jail and an 18 year old wh2RE LOOKING FOR mR. eLDERLY rIGHT.
Jak-3696747 get your mind of of the gutter, first of all who said anything about pedophile, the girl is 18 not 12 or 15, second she can vote thank you very much and she can think for herself thank you and she left him, that's three thank yous again get your mind out of the gutter and stop thinking negative, the man quit his job, he was not fired, he left his wife, he moved in with her, and she left him, who is the loser in all this, not little miss 18, who's life is going to be a mess for life, not little miss 18, one more time GET YOUR MIND OUT OF THE GUTTER! Do you have not shame?
Too bad they didn't include a copy of his mugshot with the picture in the article, the one where he has a look on his face like he's telling the world he's gotten away with molesting a child. Something tells me the mugshot shows a different look.