Boy is this story badly written.
“The 16- and 17-year-old students”
“they had consensual sex with French while he taught at the school between 2015 and 2017.”
2018-2015 = 3.
16-3 = 13
Possible age of one girl originally. And yet somehow I don’t trust the details in the story to be accurate. Just because it is so poorly written.
The editor had trouble publishing the piece, because the original was written in cursive...
“Just because it is so poorly written.”
As is about 98% of stories these days. They are usually an incoherent dog’s breakfast of random words thrown together.