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Explicit Video Spreads At High School, Exposes Grooming Triangle Of 2 Female Teachers and 1 Boy

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Explicit Video Spreads At High School, Exposes Grooming Triangle Of 2 Female Teachers and 1 Boy

This exposé reveals a disturbing pattern of teacher-student grooming at Centennial High School, a prestigious football-focused institution in Arizona. While the narrative begins with a fictionalized high school love triangle, the reality is far more sinister. Students report that two teachers—Haley Beck, a 27-year-old psychology teacher, and Angela Berlaca, a 47-year-old math teacher—engaged in inappropriate and predatory behavior toward male students. Haley Beck allegedly sent money, photos, and texts to football player Alex, frequently asking about his relationships and offering him gifts, while also saving his photos and arranging private meetings. Angela Berlaca was accused of sending explicit messages and videos to students, including a 16-year-old boy, and even photographing herself in the shower. Students describe a culture of silence, fear, and institutional cover-ups, where the school prioritizes athletic reputation over student safety. A tip from a parent led to an investigation, revealing that Haley and Angela both targeted male students, with Haley reportedly knowing about Angela’s actions and remaining silent. Text messages, social media interactions, and student testimonies show a pattern of grooming, manipulation, and emotional exploitation. Although no formal charges have been filed, the evidence suggests clear violations of professional boundaries and child safety. The case highlights systemic failures in accountability, with school leadership downplaying concerns and protecting the institution’s image, especially in light of its football dominance. The story serves as a warning about the dangers of power imbalances and the need for transparency in school environments.

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there is nothing quite devastating like a high school love triangle it is the synopsis of many a book talk books two people fighting over one love interest it's probably what the quote all's fair in love and war is inspired by especially when two people are fighting over the popular quarterback to the high school football team there are trilogy long sagas of real life instances where people have confessed to the craziest high school love triangles years down the line one netizen op the original poster she gets a call from her old high school crush they're so much older now in fact this old high school crush is about to get married to his high school girlfriend but he's calling her and he's drunk he's confessing his love to her instead and he's saying things like i know you never want me because back in high school you rejected me and this is all right before his wedding but what's crazier is the original poster op is like what are you talking about i never rejected you in high school back in high school when they were all friends this guy had asked his now soon-to-be wife to tell the original poster hey i have a crush on her can you tell her and let her know and this girl the soon-to-be wife decides i'm actually not gonna tell her that and i'm just gonna tell you that she rejected you and i'm gonna swoop in and start dating you instead and now she is going to be the one walking down the aisle with him which i mean i don't know how someone would even feel if they find out the truth years down the line i don't know if that changes him wanting to get married or not do you still get married all over this like high school love triangle people do crazy stuff when their frontal lobe is not fully developed and in high school everything means something like who you sit next to in the cafeteria whose hoodie you're wearing whose locker you're standing by between class i hate high school dating becomes very territorial in high school people decorate their crush's lockers they'll wear the jersey numbers to the high school football games look at the little candy canes delivered to them during christmas but even if a high school relationship withstands all of this drama it almost always ends up with everyone separating because of college which is why letters like these are written to the quarterback of the high school football team i'm glad to have you as someone who i think will be in my life for a while and this is a real note this is very pertinent even if we don't talk all the time or even at all when you're in college i feel like our bond will always be there so just hit me when you want to go get wasted at a bar together and i'll send you my wedding invite one day i know you're a nostalgic af so i hope you look back at our time as a good one and no this isn't like me saying goodbye but like i know things are going to be different like bro you were the first person who got me to smoke weed you're always going to have that title so we're locked in for real and maybe one day we'll be able to go to the aquarium i'm here whenever even though you never say it back i love you and i wish you all the best always love you bye love hb this letter never gets delivered to the high school crush instead it's found crumpled up in a kitchen trash can during a search warrant for hayley beck's apartment because this letter is not between two high school love birds who are in love and their students that are separating for college this letter is written by a 27 year old teacher at centennial high school who is caught grooming her student we would like to thank today's sponsors who have made it possible for rotten mingo to support the joyful heart foundation who are working to transform society's response to sadvca and support survivors healing with resources like education advocacy and policy change this episode's partnerships have also made it possible to support the joyful heart foundation to support rotten mango's growing team and we'd also like to thank you guys for your continued support as always full show notes available by rottenmingopodcast.com today's case involves mentions of grooming predators in particular positions of power harassment csa please take care while watching today's episode take a break put this on pause if you need to we will see you back in the next episode this episode is also currently ongoing and so any information will be up to the date of publishing and because there's no verdicts as of now and not even charges all allegations are speculative currently being investigated and or only consist of publicly available information online we did foyer request this case so we did receive like a 200 page police document i will say because there are no charges there will be times where i'm quoting things from this police document or i'm quoting other people talking about and referencing this police document there's lots of labels of what this crime was some people are using the words like relationship and sex but i just want to make it abundantly clear this is none of those things in my opinion i think this is just a sex crime i don't think that this is sex or a relationship i think this is grooming i think this is predatory behavior and i think it's a crime i think it's sexual assault but because there are lots of people who reference it like that likely because the victim is a male student it's not me advocating for that i'm just saying so with that being said let's get into it every high school has some sort of open secret married teachers are having affairs with each other one netizen writes quote two p teachers one male and one female they would vanish at the same time every day she got pregnant her husband was also a teacher at our school and like the whole building pretended we didn't know that that's not his baby which is a pretty common theme another netizen writes two teachers had an affair and the woman's husband came to the school during lunch and beat the shit out of the other teacher in the hallway the kids were filming it but both teachers kept their jobs and then it becomes one of those things that nobody really talks about openly anymore married parents of students are having affairs with other married parents perhaps with a married teacher one person stated that their high school had this weird open secret the football coach was having a very public affair with one of the player's moms she was at every practice every game always in his office his wife was also a teacher at the school and like the whole town knew another student says our principal was sleeping with at least two different students moms he would schedule parent conferences during school hours like his secretary knew his whole office staff knew everyone knew he eventually got promoted to district administrator yeah open secrets about how seriously everyone seems to take high school sports is a huge thing like one principal who would change her own son's grades so that he could play football this is a common thing one faculty member writes the star quarterback had a gpa of 0.8 0.8 literally failing every class but every quarter his grades would magically adjust just enough so that he could play football every teacher knew it nobody was allowed to talk about it or another best player in our school basketball team got caught breaking into cars and robbing them was kicked off the basketball team after they found his car full of all the valuables that were stolen half into the season we're at the bottom so the coach and the principal work out a deal and they get him back in he ends up playing we still lost though this one isn't as much of a secret as it is a crime but someone writes the male science teacher hit a camera in the faculty woman's bathroom yeah but centennial high school in arizona their open secret would start making national news centennial high school is one of the entire state's premier athletic schools particularly in football so their team has won at least eight state championships it's a heavy football school meaning friday nights you drive by centennial high school it's going to be packed everybody's talking about what they're wearing to the game who's playing who's that everyone knows all the players their numbers all the players and their parents then the rest of the weekend if you go to the best spots in town like if you go saturday brunch you are going to run into people rehashing friday night's game while eating brunch and it's just high school football like it's that serious and i grew up in the south so like i get high school football and there is something much darker going on in centennial high school than just football it starts off more like an open secret it's like a rumor nobody has proof but it just feels weird one student says there was just things about the school that just kept getting swept under the rug look i don't know the specifics but everyone's heard the rumors like there was this male spanish teacher that was very friendly and flirty with the girls students last year i don't know if anything happened but he was fired before anything came up and this is a real witness a real student saying this to the police then there's the girl's soccer coach and psychology teacher she's just kind of weird with her students specifically her male students she seems like one of those teachers that hates her female students but loves her male students which is concerning right but she would just do this thing where she would constantly call out members of the football team kids students out of their classes and then bring them to her classroom and like just hang out with them i don't know it's weird or she's constantly doing favors for them she would let them leave the school campus to get food which is generally not allowed at some point the other students would leave the school campus and even some of their older already graduated siblings are confused their parents are getting word of this after hearing all of these rumors one of the students decides to just ask one of the football players like you're always around the psychology teacher like is that teacher being weird with you is something weird because i heard something weird's going on he responds really cryptically you'd have to ask the teacher that like i'm not saying anything what does that mean like as in there's something to say but you don't want to say it but there is one student whose name keeps getting brought up in all of this with rumors about the psychology teacher and he's like he's a football player and we're going to be referring to him as alex for the rest of the episode that is not his real name anyone who is under 18 or even 18 but as a student i'm not using any of their real names. Alex, just a fake name, like I said, but yeah, there's just like a rumor between Alex. Like he's always around the psychology teacher. If you see her in the hallway, she always wants to be near him. It's, I don't know. It's just sometimes he'll be in her classroom when it's not even his class. And that's not to say that Alex is strange. The teacher is the only strange one here in this scenario, but it's odd to the point that people called her out on it. And she states that the only reason her and Alex are so close is because they're like siblings. He's like her brother, which I feel like when you hear people calling someone, oh, that's like my brother. There's only three ways this goes. Okay. A, they are literally siblings or cousins or related by DNA in some way, shape, or form, which does not apply to this teacher and student. B, they grew up together and experienced a lot of hardship or something that they can relate to, which again, doesn't apply to this teacher and student dynamic. And C, when someone is trying to deflect, and distract from the fact that they definitely do not see this individual as their brother. That's it. I feel like those are the only three ways it goes. That's it. But not only that, they would bicker like siblings. And on top of that, the teacher would just bring this male student up in every single conversation, even if it's not about him, has nothing to do with him. She would somehow manage a way to weasel his name into this conversation with other students. It's just weird. Like, are you obsessed with Alex or something? But the teacher is on like the younger side of the other teacher. She's 27. And so while it's highly inappropriate, unprofessional, and should stop, maybe there's nothing more to it. Like, maybe that's why nobody reported it. But another recent graduate of Centennial says, I don't know. I overheard something really, really strange. Very strange conversation. The psychology teacher and the football student, they're in the hallway, kind of hush, hush, whispering, arguing. And as the former student is walking back, they heard the student say something to the teacher along the effect of, I have a girlfriend. Why are you so worried about what I do? Which is just weird. Why would a teacher be so concerned about that? Then there's the video rumor. A couple of students started telling their friends who told their friends who told their friends who told their friends and like, maybe some of them told their parents. But the rumor is there's a video of one of the teachers giving a student oral in her classroom. Jess is a woman on a mission. This is, I mean, it's not an open secret if it's a literal crime. Jess goes straight to the teacher and says, I have a girlfriend. I have a girlfriend. And she starts typing up her tip. She enters her name. Jess is the mother of a student, former student, graduated student. She starts typing up her name, address, phone number, email in the tip submissions part. And Jess writes that her daughter used to attend the school and was on the soccer team. And her soccer coach. I'm sorry, tip to what website? Oh, the police website. Oh, okay. And her, the daughter's soccer coach, who also happens to be the psychology teacher, has just typed up her tip. And she's like, I have a girlfriend. I have a girlfriend. I have a girlfriend. And she's always had this unprofessional air to her. The way she handles herself around the students, it just never felt right with Jess. She remembers distinctly how she spoke with the soccer coach, at least on one occasion about quote, how I felt like her relationship was inappropriate with all the kids. However, I know that last year's team has a lot of info about a boy that she had apparently an inappropriate student teacher relationship with. He would meet her during non-school hours and they were definitely Snapchatting. In the portion that reads suspect name, she types in Haley Beck and sends it to the Peoria Police Department where Detective Kraber, a detective in the heat division. So this is human exploitation and trafficking unit, picks up the tip. He immediately calls Jess back for more information. And she tells the detective, look, she's never been appropriate with her kids. She's never acted like some sort of authority figure. And she cares more about being a peer to the students than anything. She gossips with the students and she worries about what they think about her. And it's just like she wants to be our kids' friends. Apparently, Haley even texted Jess's daughter that Jess's daughter is being bratty. Like, you're being bratty. A teacher texting a student that the student is being bratty, which is weirdly unprofessional. And Jess describes it as being manipulative. But the reason for the tip is not because Haley Beck is one of those odd teachers that needs to get a grip to life and come to terms with the fact that these high school students don't see you as cool or their friend. All disrespect intended. Jess would not have filed a tip for that. It's because of Alex. OK, she's saying there's this kid, this football player named Alex, and he just comes to all the girls soccer practices, even when he has no reason to be on campus. And it doesn't seem like he's doing it to be around the girls of the soccer team. He would attend all of these lock ins and students have started noticing that sometimes Haley and Alex would bicker. And some of the students were saying, oh, it's because they're like siblings. That's what Miss Beck said. Right. But it feels like they're arguing like they're in some sort of relationship. So she's submitting because she doesn't want to. She's worried about Alex, right? Yes. And then she says, but my daughter specifically heard something when they were arguing. And it's different from what the other student overheard, because lots of tips are coming in simultaneously. And Jess says, you know, my daughter was walking by when they were arguing in the hallway and she overheard Miss Beck, the teacher, say something along the lines of this would wreck my career, not yours. And then there's just all the small, very alarming things. Sometimes Alex wouldn't be in class, but Haley would never mark him absent. Miss Beck would invite Alex and the entire football team to come swimming at her apartment swimming pool. And the other night there was this whole conversation amongst the students that Haley had Miss Beck had given Alex head. That's the phrasing of it. Like, that's not me saying it because I think that would be a crime. But you get what I'm saying. Jess states at the end of this call, she feels really guilty because she doesn't have the proof of any sort of video or anything. But like, these are the things that she's heard. And she feels she feels conflicted about making this tip. Because if she had. Hadn't called, then nobody else is going to get dragged into it. And now the police want to talk to her daughter. The police want to talk to these other high school kids. But they really, really need to look into 27 year old Haley Beck, who is pretty easy to Google for the officers, by the way. She's not just a psychology teacher at the local high school. She's also the well-known older sister of a pretty well-known influencer by the name of Noah Beck. If you are one of the lucky people that did not download TikTok during the pandemic and continue down the easy pipeline of brain rotting like myself, you may have no clue who Noah Beck is, which is neither here nor there. Just know that he's a big influencer with over 30 million followers on TikTok, and he makes a lot of money. And I, I want to say definitively, but it seems like he has not been in any career ending controversies. He seems unproblematic compared to some. Of the other tick tockers during that time period, he mainly does a lot of big brand trips now. I think he's getting into acting. I think he has a few shows on Netflix that he's working on. So, yeah, I think he's mainly trying to be an actor. He's dating. He did date Dixie D'Amelio, but I think they were broken up a long time ago. Oh, OK. Yeah, but he's like from that era. Right. But he makes a lot of money, which may or may not be the only tiny detail that will hold relevance to this later. But he also did some family vlogs that feature. Two of his sisters. So you've got Haley Beck, the oldest Beck child, and it appears that she's always had the going down the right path type of childhood, while her younger siblings, Tatum Beck, her younger sister, her younger brother, Noah Beck, were the troublemakers. That's how they talk about their relationships. They're like, Haley Beck is like the golden kid, the perfect child or whatever. Wow. And then Tatum Beck is like the troublemaker. She likes to throw pizzas at Haley Beck. But is Haley Beck also? Like an influencer or not at all? Or she's just only as a sister? Only as a sister. So she doesn't have her own TikTok and all of that. She does, but now not anymore. It's pretty much gone. But she was never famous for her TikTok. She was really only famous for being Noah Beck's sister. Yeah. And I'm assuming everybody in school knows that, too, right? That's Noah Beck's sister. Yeah. And apparently, oh, my God, there's like this rumor. I couldn't confirm, but there were some anonymous students that were formerly in her class that said that because she's a psychology teacher, she would use Noah Beck and Dixie D'Amelio as personality references, which was just weird, very weird, very bizarre, very parasocial. That's very interesting because you're saying that she wants to be a friend and her brother is like basically the biggest star for high school kids. Yeah. Must play a lot of roles in. Her brain and her interaction with the kids. Right. Yeah. Which makes it, I think, more sick. Yeah. Not that Noah Beck did anything wrong. Yeah. He doesn't even live in Arizona anymore. So just pointing that out. But more on that later, because there is a part about Noah Beck in the police report that is unverified. But we'll get there. Haley goes on to become a high school psychology teacher. And she says in an interview, teachers can have connections with kids. And I feel like that's one of the most important parts of teaching, because at the end of the day, you never know. I might be the only one. The only person in someone's life that does care. I try really hard to make that known in my teaching and in my interactions with my students. And then there's really not much else about her until recently, where every single TikTok of Haley Beck in her classroom teaching has seemingly gone viral, because there's a rumor that Haley Beck is the teacher in the video where I would consider it essay, but oral is committed against a student. Do you remember the TikTok trend where two people would be running, filming each other? They take a picture of each other. They take turns. So one person pretends to be the suspect. The other pretends to be the cop chasing the suspect. And as they're running, the cop, the one that's filming, will say, something like suspect is a 25 year old and still takes a bubble bath every single day suspect can't grow a beard you know they're supposed to be oddly specific you get it you've seen it noah beck has done one with his siblings a while back and hayley beck is running and noah beck says suspect's best friends are her students and hayley stops running to say they're nice to me then another tiktok is dug up same trend but this time it looks like it's hayley and another maybe a teacher or a student in a cafeteria and hayley is running through this empty cafeteria and a girl's voice on the other end says suspect has a cult following of high school boys wow and there is a tiktok that has since started going viral which is a picture of hayley beck in her class and on the whiteboard behind her it's written mommy beck whether she wrote that and told the students to call her mommy back whether one of the students wrote it and she just didn't erase it immediately it's unclear there's nothing inherently illegal or fireable in the videos of her in the classroom at least the ones circulating online although i do think that she did break some school rules because i don't think you're allowed to have students voices or their faces in any tiktoks without the parents consent oh so she films tiktoks she also would like film tiktoks in her classroom and they were just so cringe they've all been wiped from the internet but you can see some reposts on tiktok where she she just behaves in a way that i would never want my child anywhere near her and i don't even have children what does that mean she's the epitome of a teacher that i think is not all there in the head she likes to sing at her desk while the students are trying to focus and it's very like oh pay attention to me and then she'll be like oops sorry i don't even know why i'm seeing that and then there's another part like this one really just grinds my gears and i do think that i have at times a very uncomfortable cadence and tone of voice and maybe there is some vocal fry in my throat but with haley beck she's this is a student this is a professional setting and she's talking to a student and she's like austin stop and i'm like what is fucking happening is there like a trend that she's doing or just like clips of her life these are clips of her life and this is like at the time when a lot of teachers were filming themselves in classrooms and then there was like a wave yeah a wave of teachers filming themselves and then a lot of a lot of kids got mad a lot of the internet got mad because they were like you are like a toxic teacher you're a weird teacher yeah yeah yeah so she has some of these but i mean maybe they're fireable offenses but nothing inherently illegal in what has come up on tiktok it's just a combination of all the things that she does she has a tendency to consistently try to fit in with the kids and make the class about herself there's another tiktok where she's up on the table while the kids are exiting the classroom and it just seems like she's doing it to make the class about to be cool i what do you mean up on the table standing on yeah and she's like watching them all leave i don't know like i just never had teachers really behave like that it just makes you uncomfortable she's bickering with students later another student would say that the football boys and hayley beck would constantly be making tiktoks in her classroom so i guess like the football boys would post their own tiktoks and that hayley beck started acting more like a friend rather than a coach or a teacher the football guys would always be behind her desk joking around with this one picture that one of the football guys took boys children students okay just emphasis he's sitting at her what it seems to be her chair and she's leaned over her desk and it's just like the most weird body language highly uncomfortable one student says miss beck would be teaching her class and suddenly when the football players came in she would stop teaching and just talk to them and the way that they talked would be like that middle school teasing flirting type of dynamic there's also this newly circulating tiktok of a male student filming himself i'm not gonna post it but it has gone viral he's likely under the influence given the caption but he's stating that he invited hayley back to pull up to his grad party and she did and now she's another student's partner in pong i'm assuming beer pong i don't know if there's beer in there or if it's gatorade probably not gatorade it's probably beer but he flips the camera and sure enough there's hayley beck at a house party that is wild other students have come out to say that being in hayley beck's class was just weird she would openly talk about her dating life which is not normal classroom behavior and so with all of this and the tip from one of the parents to the police department the police decide that they're going to start a full-blown investigation in fact they have tips about other things going on in high school so they're just gonna upend and do a full overhaul and look into everything and they start pulling up other names that they think are going to be good witnesses they're calling their parents because most of them are under age asking if they can come in for an interview and all of them are led into the soft room the soft interview room in big police departments is specifically designed to create a comfortable calm environment it's usually reserved for victims witnesses and for this situation children not the perpetrators multiple students are brought in from centennial high school into the soft room where they're asked can you tell us what you know about the ongoing investigation one of the students responds which one the police don't start investigating centennial high school because of a tip on hayley beck there is already an investigation underway on a separate teacher 47 year old angela berlacca what is going on this school while police are investigating angela berlacca tips are coming in about 27 year old hayley beck so now they're like okay well let's investigate both of them and this is how both teachers are getting investigated for grooming their students and random parents from centennial high school end up opening their front doors seeing a business card taped on the front for a detective one of the mother calls the detective and says i i don't know what this is all about well kind of she says she figured out you know given all the recent events she had heard rumors milling about concerning some teachers at the school but she doesn't know all the details but she heard that her child might know more she and her daughter who we will randomly call taylor taylor is 17 get called into the soft room okay so the police they don't do like an audio transcription so there's an audio and video file that we were not able to foia which is understandable this is still an open investigation after all as well but they don't have a transcript for the audio so this is the police officer paraphrasing their entire conversation based off the interview so these are i don't want to say they're direct quotes but they're as direct as it gets like these are all the statements the police reiterated in the police report so taylor tells the detectives i heard some rumors about miss berlacca what kind of rumors that 47 year old angela berlacca a teacher at the high school would send nudes to football players and that she would add a bunch of the boys on snapchat but a lot of the students like miss berlacca and felt that she was never odd in class like taylor is like oh no miss berlacca is not like hayley beck where she's obsessed with the boy students she's actually pretty nice to me but i don't know this is the rumor that i heard so maybe the rumor is just a rumor taylor reports to the detective that she personally noticed that angela berlacca started getting weird to her when she started dating another student redacted so we're gonna call him redacted for now taylor um the 47 year old teacher getting weird to taylor yeah so 47 year old angela berlacca starts acting weird around 17 year old taylor and taylor is like all i know is it started when i started dating my boyfriend another 17 year old at the school is he a football player yeah so taylor starts dating redacted male student in the school and that's when angela berlacca the teacher starts acting very strange as per the report when taylor would go to the bathroom angela would ask her if she's gonna go hang out with her boyfriend she would ask taylor about her boyfriend all the time and like taylor thinks it's weird also miss berlacca was one of the first people that found out that taylor and her boyfriend were even dating like how did she even find out so quickly and then taylor finds out through mutual friends of her and her new boyfriend that angela had actually added her boyfriend on snapchat when he was a freshman or sophomore so this was like a and she was always sending him weird stuff like messages allegedly like my husband doesn't satisfy me enough this is a 47 year old teacher sending this to a freshman or sophomore in high school that's crazy miss berlacca are teachers supposed to have a snapchat no they're students no is that even allowed that's crazy so teachers actually have email portals or sometimes they have these software each school is different so some schools have software where you can like message teachers but it's like a school software and it's all monitored yeah but no teachers are not supposed to have any sort of personal contact with students outside of class and usually teachers the last thing they want is to fucking see a student outside of class or talk to them so this is really weird wow crazy she would invite him to the classroom early before the rest of the students would get there and she would tell him not to tell anyone about what she's saying but taylor's boyfriend never told taylor any of this himself so this is all she would do she would tell him not to tell anyone she's hearing through mutual friends she never saw these messages on his phone so she's like i don't know if it's true it's just what i've heard but there are more rumors about miss berlacca that multiple male students children received similar messages and taylor says quote i just knew the whole football team is bonded over how weird the teachers are and that they've seen the same pictures of miss berlacca same pictures wow so she's mass sending her nudes to team could be the police bring in angela berlacca and she tells the officers that she has been working as a teacher for the past 26 years she's been employed as a teacher way longer than any of these children have been on the face of this planet she also teaches at this redacted it sounds like a daycare and she teaches early child development and is in charge of the preschool so initially in the interview even though angela knows what's going on she just tells the police that she really only has interactions with students via email and she only communicates with students for school related purposes the police report reads i then asked her if she communicates with students outside of school purposes um i'm not gonna answer that question would there be any reason why a student would have your personal phone number no reason for that i'm just gonna say this but i feel like anything i say is going to be viewed as wrong she goes on to say that in the event of going on a field trip or something that angela has given out her phone number before to some students some teachers it's some other parents but other than that no reason that i mean that makes sense right would there be any reason why a student would have your personal phone number it's some other parents would be any reason a student would have any images or videos of you in a state of nudity angela immediately states that she's not going to answer the question and requests an attorney thus ending the interview and she knows why because the second that the police get a warrant for her phone records and start going through it they're going to see that she is indeed on snapchat talking to students taylor's boyfriend to be exact on snapchat she messages taylor's boyfriend her student first who's your tattoo artist wow wait but are these still recorded on snapchat or they're gone they're gone but the police are able to subpoena snapchat so the police are out here subpoenaing snapchat so snapchat also has a whole record oh yeah oh yeah snapchat actually has a back-end portal for law enforcement where they can go in and ask for search warrants and i think interesting yeah they have like all the big tech companies and i'm i'm saying this because i don't know why people are so dumb in this day and age and i'm like i don't know why people are so dumb in this day and age and i'm like if you're committing a crime all the big tech companies they they have preservation requests that law enforcement fill out and they preserve all the metadata they're legally required to and i'm not saying that so you can get away with the crime i'm saying that because it's so mind-boggling to me yeah i mean like i would say that this is more so if you're not committing a crime and maybe you have other sensitive information that you wouldn't want certain government agencies to know just know that right but wow so she's like what's who's your tattoo artist this guy named creep on 43rd avenue and grand and then he responds shaking my head why'd you unad me so she added him unadded him and then angela berlacca responds just trying to stay out of trouble if you say so you got any free time coming up b so they all call her miss b i'm leaving town this weekend where to colorado for a fast it really does no response so angela berlacca messages again in the morning good morning now he responds good morning curious if your offers are still on the table wait who the student is asking if your offers are still on the table we don't know the offers based off this conversation but angela berlacca responds yes but not right now the student responds catch me in december i'm curious if you teach some things or not are you graduating early yeah i am i'll be done in december so catch me over break when you got free time i need to see if you got any special tricks and i'll be 19 nice and i'd be happy to we'll see what you got up your sleeve and i guess he copied her message on snapchat or something but she's like anything you want you know what's with you copying my message though should i be worried who is the student angela berlacca is like you copied my message should i be worried yeah shotting and stuff and he's like not about me good to know so she's 47 yeah the student was like 17 he is now 18 yeah 2019 so she's 30 years older yeah does she have any children do you know she's married and has children god it is atrocious but the deep dark abyss of hell can always get darker once investigators start digging they interview taylor's boyfriend's grandmother and she states that her grandson confided in her that his teacher was being inappropriate with him she also reached out to the police on a separate tip stating that a teacher has been sending her grandson taylor's boyfriend inappropriate messages and videos one video is described in the police report as quote a video where the teacher was nude and masturbating with a a a toy yeah a di a cucumber shaped device in addition to this the female teacher was saying redacted's name in the video as well as stating that she wants to s him dry the video footage shows the teacher's face as well as identifying tattoos as well as another video of angela berlaca in addition to redacted there are three other students involved what do you mean three three students involved whether they received similar messages or similar offers but there are other students that are semi-involved in being groomed now this video was sent to the student when he was 16 years old not when he was 18 there's another video that the police find which includes an adult female likely angela berlaca in the shower unclothed her face is not in it but it appears to be her it matches with her shower it matches with the containers in her shower and some of the identifying tattoos the video is two entire minutes long and she's just pointing the camera downwards and like soaping up her body and angela berlaca is very clearly in my opinion a predator neither of them have been charged yet but can the same be said about hayley beck at least as far as this investigation right now in this point it's like the police opened up a can of worms with angela berlaca's case and that leads them to open up another can of worms or a can of eels with hayley beck so they're like okay we've got angela berlaca we've got these videos and now everybody's talking about another teacher named hayley beck like what's happening another student is brought in and she tells officers that she's heard a rumor that hayley beck and alex have been together since alex that student was 16 years old and that wouldn't surprise her they're like what do you mean by that miss beck acts like she's still in high school and she's obsessed with the football team she would mention how when she was in high school she dated a football player not only that another student states one time i was in yearbook class i stopped by miss beck's classroom when i got there there was like at least 30 football players inside they're having a pizza party and the student walks in and miss beck looks at her and goes well this looks weird and she didn't think it looked weird but now that miss beck said that it was weird that made it weird and she never allows female students to hang out in her classroom after class but she allows all the male students another student who graduated states she hated being in miss beck's classroom why she just has a weird focus on guys her classroom environment was annoying she would prioritize the male students attention over teaching there's also rumors that she gave a male student a christmas present that she filmed a tiktok inside of the car of one of the male students like it wasn't scandalous but why are you in a student's car filming a tiktok one student says something incredibly alarming though they state that there are at least a group of eight to nine football kids that she knows of where they were in a competition and that competition was to see who could get the most inappropriate videos and pictures of either of the two teachers angela berlaca and hayley beck now normally this type of competition would be a reason for students to be in trouble because it is inappropriate but no teacher in their right mind would ever send anyone any material for this type of competition and they would never send anyone any material for this type of competition competition that they have going on right police subpoena angela berlaca's phone and they also subpoena and do a search warrant on hayley beck's phone and inside hayley beck's they find text messages between hayley beck and this student named alex and they're both referencing faculty pictures so specifically of hayley beck so you know each teacher they need like an id tag and hayley beck she's talking about her id tag picture and alex states bluntly those id pics are funny hayley beck the teacher responds in a confused manner like funny why oh let me guess i was a beluga in the first few so she's saying that she was much heavier in the first few pictures when she first started teaching bro my sophomore year you were one billion percent overweight and now you look fire one netizen writes if someone told me i was one billion percent overweight i would have to kms alex goes to like oh alex goes on to like the text message oh let me guess i was a beluga in the first few years and he responds to that the student responds and he says man ain't that right yeah but like you still fucked with me then like as a person negative you were a cool teacher though is my one this year good then and you're my current teacher or better at least you're telling me you wouldn't have tried with me back then solely because of the teacher aspect no not at all because it wouldn't have been like because it would have been like uh she's not even a flex she's rough right right i was just cool okay be nice you asked same way i think about miss b if she was a little more fit i would have died in the pussy miss b berlaca oh he's talking about the other teacher to hayley beck like hayley beck knows what's going on yeah and she's not reporting it because she's doing the same thing and hayley does miss b knows about hayley back though we don't know what and hayley beck responds bro she's also like 50 though but she's too damn big for me right now question mark question mark age is just a number baby she's starving for the young dick who said this the student oh and i do want to preface that there's going to be a lot of uncomfortable messages where this 18 year old student is saying sometimes uncomfortable things about women women's bodies and his girlfriend in particular but i don't think that he's at fault for anything yeah like i think there's yeah there's no crime in an 18 year old talking like this behaving this way especially when you have to factor in the trauma element of like we don't know how long he's been preyed on in this school and how that could alter the way that he also thinks and speaks i'm not justifying it but i'm just saying he's genuinely a victim in this situation hayley responds i mean yeah i guess even though our situation is still not right at least we're closer in age i don't like being compared to miss b not jealous yeah she's jealous that someone else is grooming her victim and he responds nah she's jealous she's jealous yeah she's jealous yeah she's jealous yeah she's jealous yeah she's jealous yeah she's jealous yeah she's jealous yeah she's jealous yeah she's jealous yeah she's jealous but if i'm 25 and she's 55 holy gilf alex likes the message that hayley sends of not wanting to be compared to angela berlacca and he writes luckily i haven't cracked her yet right like this sounds more normal like an older woman go you sick i can't even look at her without thinking of her literal vagina right so investigators put two and two together that both angela berlacca and hayley beck are victims of sexual abuse and they're not the only ones who are victims of sexual abuse and they're not the only ones who are victims of sexual abuse and they're not the only ones who are victims of sexual abuse and they're not the only ones who are victimizing the same student the message where she is sending the video with that object and saying a student's name it's alex it's the same student and on hayley beck's end she knows what angela berlacca has been doing and this has not reported it because she's doing the same thing to the child and she doesn't even appear to be worried about it like she almost says it as if it's something to be proud of like some sort of badge of honor that she's so cool that even the other teachers are telling her to stop being like one of the kids taylor and other teachers know about this yes or at least they seems like they have an idea taylor says she never liked miss beck she had miss beck for psychology all last year didn't like her especially because miss beck was always texting alex hayley beck would text alex i mean she would text all the football boys but specifically alex and she would send him money and weird shit according to the police report taylor says weird shit and she was constantly asking alex about his high school girlfriend taylor hayley would be asked texting alex what are you doing and with taylor bro hayley would just call him weird which alex would get offended by and he would respond to hayley like his teacher that he's going to be rude and weird to her because she's weird for texting him he would straight up tell her your ass is going to get in trouble because you're texting me hayley beck did not care taylor states i never saw anything like freaky in the text messages from miss beck it would just be like her sending money and asking him what are you doing today or like let's go grab food it was like she's trying to hang out with him that's fucking crazy in what scenario would a teacher send student money yeah how much money it's always 20 or 30 dollars each time but it added up in the span of a month and a half to six hundred thirty dollars on a teacher's salary like what like vemo him or apple pay oh like those like gift card money on the text yeah not even just any teacher i think any adult sending any child money that is not directly related that the parents know about is so alarming yeah yeah yeah but a teacher makes it even more alarming yeah hundred percent wow and taylor was like i know of at least one time where hayley beck and alex hung out they went to this place called fired pie which ironically is not like a pie place it's a pizza spot well i guess that makes more sense but alex is there with his friend and hayley beck just shows up meets up with them offering to pay for alex's food taylor didn't even know about any of this until she asked alex about it because she heard about it from someone else and in this instance he got mad that she asked and like these are the small things where i think it's really important when you just read the messages between hayley beck and the victim the student because he's a lot more aggressive in the text messages some netizens have gotten into this weird mindset where he's not a victim because he was 18 he's a victim and i think these small instances where when he's asked about did you see hayley beck with his high school girlfriend he gets upset and that might be from a whole list of traumatic reasons that maybe have not been digested as being trauma these are like the little things where it's very clear it's still impacting him in a tremendous way so he got mad and he didn't want to talk about it now the whole thing is odd taylor says that hayley beck was constantly just like texting alex as if they were friends or something like she would send him pictures selfies not like inappropriate or freaky that's how she phrases it though they are inappropriate but just like pictures of herself and she would just be asking oh should i post these on instagram like he's some sort of social media manager to which alex would respond i don't know or sometimes he would just not respond at all what happened then the detective is asking miss beck would get mad also hayley beck would constantly save photos of alex on her snapchat and taylor a 17 year old is telling the detective because the detective is like why do you think she did that and she's like i don't know if maybe like alex looked good in the photos or what i don't know and if you read the 200 page police document these are the moments where i feel like okay this is where you see the impact on these kids because we know why hayley is saving those pictures but this is a 17 year old girl who is just confused why a teacher is saving the pictures to begin with and she's trying to come up with reasons in her mind i think these are very impactful moments that should be remembered but the police report reads taylor quote told alex that miss beck was chasing him and that what miss beck was doing was weird and miss beck is not all that and then march of 2025 there was this whole incident where taylor is in the car with alex and he's saying that he needs to drop off his school computer because someone is going to do his homework for him and she's like who who's going to do your homework where are you dropping off your laptop like your school laptop he's not responding so she's like okay i'm just not going to question it then they go and they drop off his computer she doesn't see who he hands it to but now she's connecting the dots and it's very clear that it was hayley beck's apartment so she connected the dots then and then later she sees text messages from hayley beck to alex that read along the lines of the computer is charged she turned in all the assignments except for one because the computer died and she was like it's just so weird according to the police report taylor states she did most of his homework for his junior year i think do you know the timeline of things when did it start how long did it last so these a lot of these text messages that we're going to get into between hayley beck and the student are when he's 18 years old but repeatedly throughout the police report it states that hayley beck and the grooming of the child probably started when he was closer to 16 so 18 he was a senior yeah so it was like sophomore sophomore they started okay yeah alex advised that miss beck does his homework for him for no reason and that she is just quote a weird ass bitch and just every time taylor and her boyfriend alex would hang out sure enough hayley beck would be texting alex i mean there's always some notification from hayley beck their teacher most of the conversations that taylor saw of hayley beck were hayley beck talking about food going to get food with him and asking if he wants to hang out with her in her classroom oh and hayley beck has this really weird thing against taylor she's telling the detectives there was this one time where she was bringing miss beck food and drinks i don't know if like okay because there would be a lot of times that they would go out to eat and hayley beck would give them the credit card her credit card and then alex would buy his food on her credit card but also bring hayley beck something back so i guess alex told taylor to bring it to miss beck her food and her drinks so she goes hayley beck would not acknowledge her and then she goes on to text alex never have taylor have your little girlfriend bring stuff to me again this is getting crazy she would constantly ask the other football boys whether or not alex and taylor's relationship was serious and if they were actually really dating the statement report for taylor's interview reads miss beck was just weird she was always flirty and trying to text alex miss beck would also excuse all of his absences so that he could pass the class she would give him all a's same thing with miss b angela berlaca miss b didn't have alex as a student but when he asked her to excuse one of his absences she would it was wild what does miss b teach again i think math and the whole school knew to some degree like they've been receiving tips about this for a while one tip that the school received was hello i hope you're doing well i'm writing to share a concern regarding miss beck and a student that i believe warrants your attention my sister redacted who is a student has mentioned feeling uncomfortable about miss beck's interactions with alex she has observed and heard about several instances that seem inappropriate including frequent communication texts between miss beck and alex via snapchat miss beck gives alex a christmas gift while not giving anything to other teammates miss beck and alex have been seen in a vehicle together sister and other students have noticed this behavior but are hesitant to report it due to the fear of being labeled as a snitch there also seems to be a reluctance to speak up due to the stigma around surrounding a male student in this type of situation while my sister is unwilling to provide further details i believe other students may be able to share more information if approached i understand this is a serious concern and i trust that the school will handle it and the appropriate discretion and urgency will be applied please let me know if there's anything further i can do thank you for your time best regards so this school do anything like is there anybody spoken out yes the principal did reach out to hayley and stated hayley denied any of the accusations but was receptive to the feedback so they basically just tell hayley hey don't be so inappropriate with the kids don't act like their friend that's not even what the tip is it's not even like oh she's being inappropriate so there's there's a lot of anger in arizona right now against the school board you think they know they just choose not to do anything yeah i think they choose not to do anything because it likely causes a lot of scandal and when you're dealing with a this centennial high school seems like a heavy football school and if you ever go to like a football heavy high school it's it's just really um they act like they're part of the fucking nfl i don't know how to describe it and i do think that there is some understanding to that in the sense of like a lot of these kids they do start their entire nfl career in high school obviously but the way that they don't want any sort of scandal involving their athletic teams and i think if there is a victim of a teacher it doesn't look good with all the parents yeah i think it's easier for the school board to ignore it and this is exactly how receptive to feedback hayley beck was hayley beck messages alex that she's in a teacher's group chat with angela berlaca and the other teachers and she texts in a group with berlaca for our meeting feels so wrong alex laughs at the message because she's likely referencing the fact that she saw angela berlaca's videos that were sent to alex alex laughs at the message because she's likely referencing the fact that she saw angela berlaca's videos but she's almost acting like oh your ex-girlfriend's in the room with me like it's so weird yeah what do you mean the other predator is in the room with you also a predator and you're going to tell the victim that and that you feel weird about it later word spreads about a potential investigation into berlaca hayley messages alex like what am i supposed to do about this right now if i don't provide later like you can call me lame and he's like deal so the provide we're going to get to that context later but she's like um kind of freaking out delete everything about me in your phone probably i don't think it's about you though so she's saying like i'm freaking out about this investigation and the victim is like delete everything about me in your phone probably i don't think it's about you though i think miss b is in some shit and they're trying to get me in for questioning hayley beck is saying everything has been deleted you do the same but let me know what it's about i'm nervous i have no clue i think she just got caught up with some other kids and they said my name and it got brought up are these texts or snapchat some of these are snapchat yeah i have something to give you also okay so as long as it's about her i just got an email about berlaca what's the email about hayley screenshots the email about angela berlaca being placed on administrative leave hayley then asks i wonder who said something are you gonna have to call the police just don't text me right now they can eat a dick i don't know anything at all okay i don't know what they're talking about i don't know what's going on all right well i hope you're not like weird with me or something but okay wait there is an investigation going on into angela berlaca and hayley beck is worried about him being weird with her like pulling away from her what is going on in her head he's the one that's like delete everything like yeah exactly he's like nah just trying not to create any new situations i mean you see this shit in front of your face like i just wanting to be like updated about your stuff really like yeah this is like a you and me thing though not that it's right but others were involved with her so no need to automatically standoffish with me though he goes on to stage that the police quote they showed up at my door banging on it at 6 a.m on the first day of school and fucked up every plan we had he had up there didn't get to talk to any coaches or any people or anything wait what they came to your house i gotta go delete this shit you're being weird but okay yo my jaw is on the ground yeah what is going on if you were to redact both names in the messages it's hard to say which ones are hayley beck and which ones are the victim because at times it appears the victim seems to have a strong connection with the victim and the victim seems to have a strong connection with the victim stronger grip on reality and the circumstances and that's not excusing anything for hayley beck that's just emphasizing how perverted everything is even the victim is more aware of the happenings and what the implications could be rather than hayley the perpetrator and somehow it all gets worse exponentially worse with all the other messages between hayley beck and her student and that is where i leave you with the audio part one in part two of the audio podcast we're going to dive into every single message that is in that 200 page police document because i think every single one is important the way that she talks to this victim the way that she grooms him it's not the typical one that we expect and i think that's why it's i mean yeah it is shocking but i think to a large degree it's very eye-opening for how male students can become victims and even just reading these messages the way hayley does it she almost makes it seem like she's being taken advantage of and i think that's sick so with that being said stay tuned for part two stay safe and i will see you in the next one

Podcast Summary

Key Points:

  1. A high school love triangle is a common trope, but the real issue at Centennial High School is deeper, involving predatory behavior by teachers.
  2. 27-year-old Haley Beck, a psychology teacher, is accused of grooming a football player named Alex through inappropriate text messages, gifts, and surveillance.
  3. Haley and Alex had a prolonged relationship involving financial exchanges, shared social media, and private outings, which students describe as highly inappropriate.
  4. The school’s culture of secrecy and fear of scandal, especially around high-profile football programs, leads to widespread cover-ups and silence.
  5. Another teacher, 47-year-old Angela Berlaca, is also accused of sending inappropriate messages and videos to male students, including nudes and explicit content.
  6. Students report that both teachers targeted male athletes, prioritized their attention, and created a culture of grooming through subtle, persistent contact.
  7. A student named Taylor confirms that Haley saved photos of Alex and asked about his relationships, showing a pattern of manipulation and obsession.
  8. Despite allegations, no formal charges have been filed, and the school’s leadership responded with minimal action, citing fear of scandal and institutional protection.

Summary:

This exposé reveals a disturbing pattern of teacher-student grooming at Centennial High School, a prestigious football-focused institution in Arizona. While the narrative begins with a fictionalized high school love triangle, the reality is far more sinister. Students report that two teachers—Haley Beck, a 27-year-old psychology teacher, and Angela Berlaca, a 47-year-old math teacher—engaged in inappropriate and predatory behavior toward male students.

Haley Beck allegedly sent money, photos, and texts to football player Alex, frequently asking about his relationships and offering him gifts, while also saving his photos and arranging private meetings. Angela Berlaca was accused of sending explicit messages and videos to students, including a 16-year-old boy, and even photographing herself in the shower. Students describe a culture of silence, fear, and institutional cover-ups, where the school prioritizes athletic reputation over student safety.

A tip from a parent led to an investigation, revealing that Haley and Angela both targeted male students, with Haley reportedly knowing about Angela’s actions and remaining silent. Text messages, social media interactions, and student testimonies show a pattern of grooming, manipulation, and emotional exploitation. Although no formal charges have been filed, the evidence suggests clear violations of professional boundaries and child safety.

The case highlights systemic failures in accountability, with school leadership downplaying concerns and protecting the institution’s image, especially in light of its football dominance. The story serves as a warning about the dangers of power imbalances and the need for transparency in school environments.

FAQs

A high school love triangle involves two people competing for the attention of a third person, often over a popular figure like the football quarterback. It's significant because it reflects the intense emotional and territorial dynamics of adolescence, where relationships are deeply personal and influenced by social status and peer interactions.

Students express feelings through actions like decorating lockers, wearing jersey numbers to games, or receiving gifts like candy canes. These gestures show how deeply personal and territorial high school relationships can become, especially in the context of romantic or social bonds.

Signs include excessive personal communication, sending money or gifts, asking about personal life, inviting students to private locations, excusing absences, or creating a friendship dynamic that goes beyond a professional relationship.

A 27-year-old psychology teacher, Haley Beck, was accused of grooming a male student named Alex, starting when he was 16. The allegations included sending money, frequently texting him, saving his photos, and having inappropriate interactions, such as being seen together in a vehicle and discussing sexual content.

Yes, grooming of minors is a serious criminal offense. In the Centennial High School case, investigations revealed evidence of inappropriate behavior, and both Haley Beck and Angela Berlacca were questioned. Though no charges have been filed yet, the allegations are being taken seriously and investigated by law enforcement.

Students often fear being labeled as 'snitches' or facing social stigma, especially in high school environments where athletic success and reputation are highly valued. This fear is compounded by the power imbalance and the potential for retaliation or dismissal of their concerns.

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