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.

"So the poor parents are worrying whether their fifteen year old is dead or alive"

And that really is getting ridiculously hysterical. Is there anything at all to suggest she may not be alive? Was she dragged away against her will?

Hopefully the fact of being entirely cut off from family and friends and hiding in grotty European B&Bs will be the reality check Megan needs to make contact with home. I hope the teacher isn't compelling her in any way not to get in touch

Paedophile or not it's still pretty fucking horrendous mrsunshine.

He's still breaking the law. He's still behaving like a self obsessed twat.

TBH I feel most sorry for the poor girl who is being taken advantage of by a person in a position of trust.

Good question, Lantern, very good question.

Who here has said otherwise, Oldie?

Yes, it IS horrendous. That doesn't give us carte blanche to start labelling him a paedophile, though.

By keep arguing over the correct term it seems to me like you are diminishing what is going on.

Imagine someone had murdered their nan for her life savings. Would you start going "UGH He is a dirty murdering PEEDOFILE" just because what he had done (murdered his nan) was a terrible thing?

No.

You're blurring the lines between two different illegalities and actually, it DOES matter, for the reasons stated already! The people crying peedo on this thread are making themselves sound like Jeremy Kylers, tbpfh.

Exactly Firstimer, i feel most sorry for the girl than anyone else as what she thinks now is love is definetly not love
The school and police are just as to blame as the teacher for not going through proper procedures to ensure this didn't happen!

I hope the parents get their daughter back and sue for what has happened.
They must be beside themselves with worry

Just why? How infantile can he be FFS!

Risking prison (I assume), loss of his marriage and child, end of his career and presumably any other career involving minors for what? A bit of underage sex. Stupid stupid man.

Hope they find her and bring her home safe soon. Poor kid

How does a preference for not using incorrect terminology in any way diminishing the gravity of the situation?

We don't know when the relationship started.

We don't know when it became apparent to third parties.

We don't know that the parents were not informed.

We don't know anything about it at all, really, except the basic fact that it should never have happened, the teacher is the one who has total responsibility for ensuring such relationships do not happen, and who will need to face the consequences.

Sue???? sue???? ffs ...

And how do you suppose the police are to blame?

"By keep arguing over the correct term it seems to me like you are diminishing what is going on."

How is that? How is anyone lessening the travesty of this by not wanting to use incorrect language? HOW? So if we all agree that he is in fact a dirty peedo, we are all in agreement that this is a terrible thing?

Fucking fuckery.

I think I would be more concerned about her safety from a non sexual POV as he may be unhinged and then he could manipulate her into anything. He will be terrified to come back I am sure and would be concerned about him doing something drastic to avoid that. Maybe her parents had an inkling who knows they will be guided through the press conference and what to say etc. It is very scary though as he is the adult and is obviously persuasive and at teh end of a day he is a teacher and she will have a certain reverence to him

Sue?! Get a grip of yourself, Pumpkin.

The school probably had to follow procedures and could not tell the parents until the teacher had been suspended pending formal investigation. And who is to say if they were told that this would have been avoided? She wants to be with him, nomatter how delusional that is. They would have done it 6 weeks, months, a year down the line if they wanted to.

Crap comparison.

He's had sex with an under age girl.

He's not a paedophile, he's broken the law though.

Why are you arguing about that?

Not a crap comparison at all. Two different crimes. He is guilty of one.

Paedo is bandied about all too easily these days by morons who have no clue of the gravity of the word.

He's slept with a child. Ok not a 10 year old child but a 15 year old child.

He's not a paedophile but he's still broken the law. He's still committed a crime.

Anyway you keep on with your stance. I'm off.

I just hope she is found, the man must be seriously unhinged to kidnap one of his pupils.

Agree with Noddy. The teacher knows he is going to be both infamous and in a heck of a lot of trouble if/when he comes back to Britain, it is in his interest to keep the pair of them hidden for as long as he can, in fact for them never to return. What if she is asking to call her parents and he's not letting her? Or if he's engineering a way to get even further away?

As for the school's own investigation: if they had had reports (most likely coming from other pupils, I would have thought?) and both teacher and Megan denied any relationship, then it seems logical it would take some time for them to investigate and gather evidence. They wouldn't necessarily suspend someone immediately if all they had to go on was rumour and gossip.

The Police only became aware of this last week. Prior to that it was the school and the education authority I believe who were investigating.

According to (I think) a sky news report.

Bupcakes, or if he'd defrauded his nan of her life savings and people kept calling him a murderer. You: But he's not a murderer, he didn't kill her, he just took her money. Peedo-watcher: Well when your old nan starves and freezes to death because some scumbag has stolen all her money, I guess you'll feel differently! You: The police cannot charge him with murder if he didn't kill her, even if she is going to starve later down the line as a result (which she hasn't done at this point in time). Peedo-watcher: I can't believe you think this man has a perfect right to steal all his old nan's money.

Pumpkin - I don't think kidnap is the correct terminology either. That would mean taking against her will, which we are led to believe is abosoutely not the case.