Secondary school teacher admits to having sex with 15 year old student

A 15-year-old student suffered from a psychiatric condition and an eating disorder after she had sex with a teacher, a district court heard on Tuesday.

The Secondary 3 student experienced intense and prolonged psychological distress, feelings of disgust, guilt, shame and self-blame and had poor sleep during her sexual relationship with the teacher.

The 33-year-old accused, who is now unemployed, admitted to five of 10 charges – one of committing an obscene act with a young person by French kissing her mouth and caressing her breasts and four of having sex with her.

The offences took place between September 2012 and January last year.