dd is upset, her old recoder teacher has just been imprisoned for...

[spacecadet]

..a catalogue of offences against children he was teaching recorder to.
when she was at primary school she had a recorder teacher for private tuition, after a while she gave it up as she didnt like the tutor, then last year, police officers arrived to interview my dd and take a statement, they said they were from the child protection team and an allegation had been made against this teacher.
we never heard anything else, then last night dd and i watched the news in horror as he was sent to prison for a committing sex offences against children for 13 years.
my dd was very shaken up although she said he never did anything.

OMG, I'm so sorry. You must be so shocked.

What a lucky DD... that must be really really disturbing

thank god she had good intuition!

i am, i know she says he never touched her but apparently he had been abusing girls he taught recorder to. i felt quite sick watching the news.

its funny cos she didnt like him from day one, he took over from her old teacher who she had a good rapport with and i just assumed that was the reason.

Bastard. How old is your dd spacecadet? She sounds like she had a lucky escape but has good instincts bless her+

shes nearly 15 now angeliz.

What an awful 'what if' scenario for her but good for her for saying she just didn't like him at the time. Horrible to think how people choose proffesiions to get close to children.

ditto fastasleep, just shows that children's feeling and worries should always be taken seriously.

Whoa! That's really creepy spacecadet. We had a janitor at our old primary school who was jailed for this sort of offence. It makes you feel sick and sad for the victims doesn't it?

Theres another thread about this hun, someone on here was also taught by him and a lucky escape aswell

its very creepy-apparently he had even tried to rape one child in the school staffroom

welshboris-really where is the thread?

Oh spacecadet, I know just how your dd's feeling

shockedandstunned-i felt physically sick when the news came on last night.
when the police came to interview us last year we couldnt beleive it, but because they wouldnt tell us what was going on, only that there had been an allegation, we just hoped it was ill founded.

Exactly - he was always rather Svengali-like with some of the children who he regarded as "especially talented" and would take them for extra tuition. IIRC, they were pretty much always girls .

I just feel like a large chunk of my childhood has been turned on its head.

shockedandstunned-this must be an awful shock for you.
the police only traced me becauseof a letter i wrote him saying how unhappy i was
with his teaching, his methods were diff to the previous teachers and i wasnt happy with them, but when he received the letter i remember he rang me, very upset asking what the prob was and saying dd was v talented and shouldnt give it up.