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She was a distance student in a marketing course he taught. They had two sexual encounters at a time when Kydd was separated from his wife and living on his own.

Kydd resigned Jan. 8, more than a week before he was formally fired and, shortly after, a picture of his penis, which he’d sent McPherson, was posted on Twitter by Glen Canning, father of the late teenager Rehtaeh Parsons, who was cyber-bullied after an explicit picture of her was circulated at her school. Some months later, she killed herself.

McPherson has always maintained the picture was thrust upon her by Kydd, unsolicited. Yet she also told a local CTV interviewer on Jan. 9 that year that the relationship with Kydd was consensual.

And in fact, as Postmedia has confirmed, she asked Kydd for the penis picture on numerous occasions, and admitted that to the RCMP when, in the early summer of 2015, she filed a complaint of sexual assault against him.

The pages of text messages she gave the police didn’t include that request of hers, or any of the sexually explicit remarks she’d made to Kydd.

And McPherson never made her phone available to police, despite repeated requests, and her reasons were all over the map — the Kydd texts, she said, were lost, or she had a new phone, or some of the texts were missing.

After investigating the complaint, police declined to lay any charges against Kydd. McPherson promptly filed a complaint against the lead investigator.

Kydd always and quickly admitted he had breached the school’s code of conduct by having an intimate relationship with a student and that he’d made a huge error in judgment, and publicly apologized to all and sundry.