The convicted enactment offender said she has 'experienced stigma'
- Harry Goodwin, News Reporter
- Published: 8:29, 4 Oct 2024
- Updated: 8:29, 4 Oct 2024
A TEACHER recovered fractional bare successful a layby with a 17-year-old pupil has moaned "I don't get invited to parties anymore" aft her conviction.
Eppie Sprung Dawson was convicted of having enactment with a 17-year-old pupil aft patrol cops recovered her wrong her car with the teen.
She admitted intersexual enactment with a idiosyncratic nether 18 portion she was his teacher and successful a presumption of trust.
The 38-year-old was placed connected the enactment offenders’ registry for six months and fixed a half-year-long assemblage payback order.
Sprung Dawson told BBC Radio Scotland: "I person a condemnation for a intersexual offence."
She added: "I was a teacher and I had an matter with a 17-year-old pupil.
"So I bash person acquisition of, benignant of, surviving with the challenges that a idiosyncratic tin look arsenic a effect of having a transgression record.
"I ne'er experienced a custodial sentence, but I surely did acquisition stigma.
"I mean, I had an exceptionally ample magnitude of property coverage, media coverage, for many, galore years pursuing my conviction.
"And I deliberation I would accidental that was the astir hard happening I experienced.
"But I mean, of course, arsenic with radical with a condemnation for a intersexual offence particularly, look the highest grade of stigma.
"And truthful things similar employment, adjacent things similar not being invited to my daughter’s friends’ day parties."