The California teen
who made national headlines when she and her high school teacher moved
in together told a local television station that the two are back
together.
Jordan Powers, 18, told a
reporter for Sacramento TV station CBS13 that she and James Hooker, 41,
are a couple again. The interview was conducted on the steps of
Hooker's apartment in Modesto through a screen door.
In an ABC news interview two
weeks ago, Powers said she had called off the relationship with Hooker
after allegations that the teacher sexually abused another student more
than a decade ago. Powers packed her bags and moved to Ohio with her
mom.
Tammie Powers, mother, told the
Modesto Bee that she thought the two were seeing each other again.
After they moved away, Hooker called Jordan "relentlessly," she said.
"She left on her own. She hired a cab and booked her own flight," Tammie Powers said.
"It is awful," she said. "This is what pedophiles, predators do. They isolate them from family."
Neighbors say Powers moved back in recently.
Hooker was arrested on April 6
for allegedly having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student he
allegedly met at a high school conference in 1998. He entered a not
guilty plea and remains out on bail.
After the break-up, Powers said
Hooker had lied about the affair and the student had "lost everything
for this guy" in the ABC interview.
"I lost my senior year. I gave up all my friends at high school because they didn't agree with me," she said.
In February, Hooker quit his job
at James Enochs High School and left his wife and three children to be
with Powers. She dropped out of high school. The two told national talk
shows that they didn't have a sexual relationship until she turned
18. That point is under investigation.
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