WARNING: Roger Hueber

**Brit Prawat** (0:00)
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**Ashley Flowers** (0:43)
Hi, Crime Junkies. I'm your host Ashley Flowers.

**Brit Prawat** (0:46)
And I'm Brit.

**Ashley Flowers** (0:47)
The story I have for you today is true to the title. A warning for our viewers, especially the ones in New York, but a reminder for all Crime Junkies, to be careful who you trust.
So let's dive in.
Our story begins on January 6th, 2005 in Lockport, New York, which is this small city about 40 minutes outside of Buffalo. There is this 16-year-old special education student who I'm gonna call Emily. She has been working with a school administrator on ways to better express herself, because she's going through a lot at home at the time. She's been dealing with a lot of trauma, and her multiple disabilities make it really hard for her to work through that and process things, like all the things going on around her. So working with this person, this administrator and a psychologist, she begins to journal, to try and get out the things that she's going through and feeling on paper. Maybe that would be an easier way for her to share information with them. And it is. She writes about her home life, about the books that she reads, and about one of her few friends named Megan. She's actually another female student in the high school special education program. But what Emily is writing about her is deeply concerning, because Emily writes that 17-year-old Megan is in a relationship with someone named Roger, an adult man who works in law enforcement. And they have been doing things that apparently make Emily uncomfortable. And whatever it is was clearly intended to be kept secret because Roger specifically told Emily that this school administrator better not find out about him, which as you can imagine makes this administrator determined to find out not just about what's going on, but who exactly this Roger is. And she knows exactly who to ask because her husband is a deputy with the Niagara County Sheriff's Office and he helps her connect the dots. Roger was apparently not a very common name in the area at that time. Law enforcement Roger is 41-year-old Roger Hueber, who is employed by the same department, but he actually works as a correctional officer at the local jail.
So she calls the jail superintendent and keeps it simple. Tell Roger Hueber to leave my students alone.
Now, at first, this administrator doesn't expect it to go any further than that. She assumes that the department will deal with it quietly. But someone at the jail takes it up the chain because pretty soon, an investigator from the Sheriff's Office, a guy named Joe Taylor, contacts her and says that he is formally investigating the allegations against Roger.

**Brit Prawat** (4:03)
Thank God.

**Ashley Flowers** (4:04)
And good because realistically, I mean, she was a mandatory reporter. It should have been more official than that. I actually checked with my sister-in-law who's a vice principal and she's like, absolutely, you're not supposed to go investigate or see what's what. You just like, you hear something.
So at least when it gets told to them, it got up the chain. Now, here is where it gets tricky. The age of consent in New York is 17 So it's actually not illegal for Roger to be in a sexual relationship with 17-year-old high school student Megan.

**Brit Prawat** (4:38)
I mean, not even if she's a special needs student?

**Ashley Flowers** (4:40)
No, that is not a factor. It is only about age. So really, the investigation that ensues, just trying to determine if the relationship started before Megan was 17
Now, Joe Taylor tries to go right to the source with Megan. He reaches out to a woman that he describes as the mother figure of Megan's house. But that woman says that talking to Megan is probably going to be a waste of his time because according to her, Megan would never be honest about what is going on between her and Roger.