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   DALY CITY, Calif. (KGO) -- A former Daly City public school music teacher   
   will be sentenced next month after pleading no contest to having a sexual   
   relationship with a former 14-year-old student.   
      
   This former Robertson Intermediate School student asked that we not show   
   her face. She is the "Jane Doe" in a pending criminal and civil case in   
   Daly City.   
      
   She says Marcus Dyson was her 5th grade music teacher in the Bayshore   
   Elementary School District. They met when she was just 10 years old. By   
   14, she says their relationship became sexual.   
      
   "He made me swear not to tell anyone," said Doe.   
      
   Doe says the interactions happened at school.   
      
   "In his music classroom which was on stage in the school auditorium. He   
   got an apartment in Daly City and things would happen there as well," said   
   Doe.   
      
   "He groomed her and coerced her into this relationship," said Kara   
   Szkotak, San Mateo County Deputy District Attorney.   
      
   Szkotak says Daly City police brought her office the case in November of   
   2023, approximately nine years after Doe says Dyson kissed her for the   
   first time. She says he continued to abuse her for four years.   
      
   With so much time having passed, when Doe came forward as a young adult,   
   police worked with her to help get Dyson's confession.   
      
   "The only way was for me to call him and get him to admit on the phone   
   that this happened," said Doe.   
      
   "The purpose of these phone calls is for the victim to confront her abuser   
   and see if he'll confess, and he ultimately did in this case," said   
   Szkotak.   
      
   "It is one of the better phone calls that we have gotten in cases like   
   this," she continued.   
      
   "It sounded like he still believes that it was true love and that what we   
   had was genuine and okay," said Doe.   
      
   The DA's office ultimately negotiated a plea deal with Dyson, who pleaded   
   no contest to a reduced list of charges including six counts of felony   
   sexual intercourse with a 14 year old child and eight counts of felony   
   oral copulation on a child under 18 years. Dyson is scheduled to be   
   sentenced next month.   
      
   His criminal defense attorney told the I-Team, "Given the pending legal   
   proceedings, we have no comment at this time."   
      
   Szkotak says at sentencing Dyson could get anything from probation to 10   
   years, 8 months. He will also have to register as a sex offender.   
      
   "If he had pled to every single charge in this case, his top would have   
   been 25 years," said Szkotak.   
      
   "I feel like there's no amount of time that could make up what he's done   
   to me," said Doe.   
      
   "My heart is with any other potential victims," she continued.   
      
   "We did have reason to believe that there were other victims, but   
   ultimately in looking at the facts of those cases we were not able to   
   bring additional charges," said Szkotak.   
      
   Beyond the criminal case, Doe has filed a civil complaint against Bayshore   
   Elementary School District and Dyson.   
      
   "I definitely think that the school needs to take some sort of   
   accountability for all of this," said Doe.   
      
   According to the civil complaint and Doe's civil attorney Elana Jacobs,   
   Doe believes that Dyson did not have a college degree and/or a teaching   
   credential.   
      
   "The school district kind of didn't do what it needed to do at the onset,"   
   said Jacobs.   
      
   "Some of the things are for example making sure that there was an adequate   
   background check, that he was getting training before he was in the   
   classroom, that he was being monitored, supervised, that the kids were   
   being adequately monitored and supervised," she continued.   
      
   In an emailed statement to the I-Team, Bayshore Elementary School District   
   writes, "To protect the due process and privacy rights of everyone   
   involved, it is District policy to not comment on pending litigation."   
      
   Doe plans to read a victim impact statement at Dyson's sentencing.   
      
   "I'm doing better than I was back then, but still not as well as I hope to   
   be," said Doe.   
      
   Dyson remains out of custody on $500,000 bail bond. His sentencing was   
   supposed to be Friday but got moved to next month due to a court   
   scheduling conflict. The San Mateo County District Attorney's Office says   
   if there are other victims out there, they would like to speak with them.   
      
   https://abc7news.com/post/former-daly-city-public-school-music-teacher-   
   sentenced-sexual-relationship-student/18457868/   
      
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