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Massachusetts Teacher Accused of Child Rape: Your Family’s Legal Rights After a Not-Guilty Plea The phone call no parent is ready for. Your child’s school — or a detective — tells you that a teacher has been charged with child rape. The news says the teacher pleaded not guilty. And in the hours after that call, the questions start drowning out everything else: What happened to my child? Who else knew? Why didn’t the school protect them? And what do I do now? We are writing this for you — the parent sitting at a kitchen table at 2 a.m. who just learned that the person trusted with their child’s education may have used that trust to cause devastating harm. The not-guilty plea is the beginning of a criminal process, not the end of anything. And it is not your only track. The criminal case determines whether the teacher goes to prison. A separate civil case — one your family controls — determines whether the institution that put that teacher in the room with your child answers for what it allowed to happen. What follows is what we would tell you if you called us tonight. It is the law,…