No Justice For Black Woman, 15, Raped, Impregnated By Teacher

Nancy Alexander recently sat down with Fox 32 Chicago to open up about her experience at John Farren Elementary School on Chicago’s South Side during the late 1970s and early ’80s, when she had the misfortune of encountering Richard Neff, the teacher who her school assigned to provide her with extra help reading, as she suffered from epilepsy, making reading a difficult task. But instead of giving her the help she needed, Neff gave Alexander a lifetime of trauma, suffering, and self-harm, as well as a special needs daughter conceived from the abuse.

From Fox 32:

Instead of a safe haven, the classroom became a place of terror. What began as inappropriate touching escalated into years of repeated sexual assaults inside empty classrooms and school closets at John Farren and Parkman Elementary.

“He would tell me I would have to stay behind. ‘Oh, you need to take a spelling test,’” Nancy recalled, her voice heavy with the pain of those memories. “I was repeatedly raped over the years.”

When the abuse left her pregnant at just 15 years old, her abuser used cruel, racist threats to ensure her silence, telling her that no one would ever believe “a Black little girl from the projects.”

Terrified and isolated, Nancy was forced out of her home at 16. She kept the secret locked deep inside her heart, working tirelessly to survive and raise her daughter alone. 

In fact, Alexander said she stayed quiet about the horrors she endured for some 40 years, during which time she tried to end her life three times. Then, in 2022, a DNA test confirmed with near certainty that the father of her child is, indeed, Neff, who is now 79-years-old and living in North Carolina.

So, what led to Alexander deciding to have this DNA test performed?

Well, around the time of the test, she had suffered and…