A teacher has been jailed for 16 months after repeatedly having sex with her 15-year-old female pupil.
The 26-year-old woman, a gifted musician and music teacher working at a private school in London, began a steamy romantic relationship with a 15-year-old girl she was teaching after the pair began meeting for coffee together.
The girl is said to have “pressured” the teacher into the five month relationship, which soon progressed to sex, with the girl and her teacher spending time in Paris together and with police finding a variety of sex toys at the teacher’s home, where the pair would often spend the night.
Throughout the relationship the girl continued to receive music lessons.
All this came to an end when police received an anonymous email tip that the teacher was intimately involved with her student, leading to her pleading guilty to 6 counts of sex with a child under the UK’s age of consent of 16.
The girl’s parents certainly did not approve of the special tutelage their “vulnerable” daughter was receiving:
“However, under the guise of helping her we now understand that for over five months she was betraying our trust and our daughter’s. She did not stay true to her professional responsibility.”
The judge in sentencing her was not entirely unsympathetic:
“This is a difficult case. The evidence showed you were having a full-on sexual relationship with the girl for many months.
She has made it clear that the sexual contact between you was consensual and she says in her statement that in fact it was instigated by her.
It is, of course, against the law to engage in sexual activity with a person under 16, even with her consent.”
This did not however stop him sentencing her to 16 months in prison and ordering that she be made a registered sex offender, though he did decline to issue a sexual offence prevention order against her.
The convicted serial child rapist’s defence maintains she is “not in any sense a sexual predator.”
09-23-2009, 02:09 AM
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