Teacher jailed for abusing ‘infatuated’ student in cupboard at back of classroom

A maths teacher who groomed and sexually assaulted connected of his pupils successful a schoolroom cupboard has been jailed.

Craig Hill, 46, touched the miss nether a array and successful a school cupboard connected a fig of occasions portion a teacher astatine Hall Park Academy successful Eastwood, Nottinghamshire.

The girl, who has not been named, had a ‘teenage crush’ connected Mr Hill, who offered her other tuition due to the fact that she was struggling successful lessons, Nottingham Crown Court heard.

She was ‘infatuated’ and ‘wanted to impress’ her teacher prosecution barrister Dawn Pritchard told the court.

Rather than discourage this, Mr Hill ‘exploited’ it, sexually assaulting her during these encounters extracurricular mean acquisition hours.

Pritchard said: ‘It started with him touching her backmost and past touching her limb and moving it higher up.

‘She recalled 1 clip erstwhile they went into a cupboard astatine the backmost of the schoolroom and helium unbuttoned his garment and she was shocked astatine however hairy his thorax was.’

The erstwhile teacher’s intersexual offences came to airy years aboriginal erstwhile the girl, present an adult, reported him to the police.

In a connection work to court, she said: ‘I consciousness similar I person mislaid truthful overmuch precious clip and my childhood.

‘I can’t reminisce astir schoolhouse arsenic each representation is tainted for maine – I was a kid and I was groomed by this man.

‘I person to support reminding myself I was a child. My lone work was to beryllium a kid and thing I could person done would person changed the outcome.

‘I’m disquieted and wary astir bumping into him and volition ever consciousness this way.’

Mr Hill, of Mornington Crescent successful Nuthall, Nottinghamshire, pleaded blameworthy to 2 counts of intersexual enactment with a child, and 1 number of causing oregon inciting a kid to prosecute successful intersexual activity.

He has present been sentenced to 32 months successful prison, aft appearing successful tribunal connected Friday. He volition besides beryllium connected the enactment offender registry for 10 years.

Sentencing him, the justice said: ‘You were successful a presumption of work to that girl. It astir apt became wide to you precise aboriginal connected that she had immoderate feeling for you – immoderate teenage crush – sometimes pupils signifier for those who are teaching them.

‘All you had to bash was kindly but firmly amusement her the door. The information that you didn’t speaks volumes. It is perfectly wide that you did not discourage her successful what she felt – to the contrary you exploited it.

‘You groomed her. The cupboard astatine the backmost of the schoolroom became your concealed spot with her.’

The justice added: ‘She, the infatuated kid that she was with nary anterior intersexual experience, could not statesman to recognize the ramifications of what was going connected and the effect.

‘There is simply a continuing interaction connected that kid arsenic she inactive is – inactive the kid trapped wrong the big assemblage due to the fact that of what happened with you.

‘I judge present you are remorseful but whether that is remorse for others oregon yourself is little casual to determine.’

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