Too feel devastated for the wife of the teacher who has run off to France with his 15 year old pupil?

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What on earth went through his head when he decided to do this?! The poor woman has taken all her social networks down out of humiliation I presume. link

Crazy.

Well I've started an AIBU thread on the whole consent under 16 laws thing as I need it explained.

bbc south east ran a report that these concerns date back to July. At least one pupil had reported the concerns to a teacher. and the parents seem to have been aware.

Also a text message from megan to one of her friends was received after she had arrived in France saying they had arrived safely.

According to same bbc report Forrester had been taking a lesson on thursday and spent the entire time checking and texting on his mobile.

Dilys - link if you can? But I do know USI fell in 2003 Act which came into operation (large parts of it) in 2005.

I remember way back in 1982-3,when I was in upper 6th form, I went to a party and a girl who had left sixth form that Summer turned up with one of our physics teachers (who was about 24) in tow, and an engagement ring on her finger! It caused a bit of stir, because nobody had any idea about it,up until then, but I don't recall anything happening to the teacher because of it. As far as I know, they got married.

The first paragraph here certainly suggests what he has done is illegal as she is under 18, and he is in a position of trust with her.

I'm appalled at your post wannabe.

The girl is a victim, regardless of any ' ' 'overtures' that she may or may not have made. Teachers are in a position of authority over their pupils and any transgression of that is not only legally wrong but morally repugnant.

Victim blaming at its best.

BOF - I don't think anyone is querying that IF they have had sex, or engaged in other sexual activity, then he is liable to prosecution. Whether he is actually charged with it is an entirely different question.

I would like to hear that she's called her mum, and she is safe.
Anything that happens afterwards is in the hands of the courts.

There is the possibity the teacher has either got this girl pregnant or she is by sonebody else.....

I suppose we will see. But if he was stupid enough to tweet about wanting to be naked with her, I imagine they'll find some way to establish some of what might have happened. I just hope she comes home in the first instance, and they don't go all Thelma and Louise.

That's a bit leftfield and an odd thing to say, don't you think, SoleSource? There's enough to worry about here without plucking stuff out of thin air.

This guy had a duty of care towards this CHILD. It matters not a jot if she was sexually active or not or wanted to be or came on to him. Not one jot.

Yes BOF - he isn't someone who is coming out of this as someone who is good at thinking straight and to act in the best interests of all concerned, is he?

I have a story to balance out all the pupil affair ones. When I was at secondary school one of my friends developed a massive crush on a teacher. ( a maths teacher oddly enough) He was youngish, married and with children. My friend was seriously keen on him. It became obvious and the subject of rumour. The school dealt with it sensibly by ensuring she was given pastoral support to get over it whilst he had nothing to do with her. He never put himself in a position where his integrity could be impugned, never weakened from a completely professional stance. Looking back I can see how very stressful it must have been for him. At the time my friends and I were only concerned for our friend. Trying to keep her distracted, pick up the pieces as she ran out of classrooms sobbing etc. Reading these other stories it's completely obvious that my friend, who was undoubtedly emotionally vulnerable, was lucky both in the man she became fixated on and in the school that was behind him because that ensured she emerged from the circumstance ok.

No, he isn't .

Going way back to the mid 80's there was a girl and a teacher in a 'relationship'.Guy's daughter was in my class and bullied to within an inch of her life because of this.
Teacher had breakdown - the girl involved well her dmum got involved. It was very messy I belive. Lots of accusations and counter accusations from what I remember.

Not nice.

However a girl in my school ended up marrying her PE teacher at the age of 17.

I feel a teacher running away with a fifteen year old child he has a duty of care shpuld be viewed as an unexpected event. The possibility she is pregnant is not odd.

There is one reason why they (the teacher and pupil) have ended up in a relationship, I say relationship..., but with two causes:

1. She cracked on to him.

1. He cracked on to her.

In either scenario the onus was on HIM to put a stop to it. The reason they are in this situation is because HE couldn't control his urges. The big weirdo. She is a 15 yea rold girl. She's suppsed to have hormonal, inappropriate crushes. But can you imagine the mayhem if every teenager saw their inappropriate fantasies lived out because the people who are the objects of them (teachers etc) did not have the self-restraint to know that it is wrong?

It's shocking how common it is, isn't it? It was rumoured at my school too. I'm glad NorthernLurker could give an example that's a bit less depressing.

He is stupid. I.read the dm and.on the website it has a link.to his blog. He posts about her l.

I hope he goes to jail. he has as to go on the sex offenders register what could he have done?
Scum.

I hope the poor girl comes home. Her mum and dad must be worried sick.

at all these teacher -child/ former pupil relationships .

What's wrong with these men ?

There was a girl at our school who appeared to have a crush on the Geography teacher. She left at the end of O levels and went to a neighbouring school to do her A levels. It wasn't because they had a better selection of courses, or better results, it was so they could embark on a relationship. Or carry on an established one, no one ever really knew! We all thought that was odd, but her parents were really accepting!

It's not just male teachers who have relationships with pupils, Droves, women teachers do it too!

You'd think this isn't going to last long. He's not good at decision-making, she will be missing home, they will be easily identifiable. The earlier she chooses to come home ( it will be her choice, she has much more to lose) the better.