Posted on 09/21/2009 8:36:27 AM PDT by End Times Sentinel
A public school mistress who was pressured into a lesbian affair by a 15-year-old pupil will be allowed to continue see the girl after she is released from a 15-month jail term.
Helen Goddard - a music teacher nicknamed the jazz lady by pupils - befriended the teenager over coffee after lessons and their relationship eventually became sexual.
Goddard wept as she was jailed today at Londons Southwark Crown Court and placed on the sex offenders' register.
But Judge Anthony Pitts decided not to grant a prosecution request that she be banned from seeing the teenager for five years.
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She describes the pair having feelings for one another, and that that was not planned or expected, said counsel.
This developed into them flirting with each other and sending text messages to each other. They went for a walk one day and she describes kissing Ms Goddard on the lips, which Ms Goddard responded to.
The youngster also spoke of lying to her parents to stay at the trumpet teachers home where they shared a bed and kissed.
Further lies and more overnight stays followed as the relationship developed.
Ms Naughton said the pair also had sexual relations at her parents home.
In June, having declared they loved each other the girl told her parents she was going to spend a weekend with a relative in France, the girl and her teacher caught a plane to Paris.
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That should lick the problem she has.
Agree and LMFAO!!!
Age of Consent should be Equal to age of first drivers license / alcohol/smoking. It should be a rite of passage to adult hood. Personally I think all of the consent legal etc ages should be 18 with conditions.
You graduate from High school, you are an adult. Either that or make the legal ages be Graduation day from high school if you are already 18 or your 18th birthday if you have already graduated. If they fail to graduate they have to wait till they are 20 or 21 years of age.
Give kids an incentive to at least Graduate!
Again, you make the mistake of equating everything to America.
16 is also the permissible leaving age in Britain for education. You can leave school at 16, and either work or go to local college. Or stay on either one or two more years (’5th and 6th year’ in Scotland and NI,’5th and 6th form’ in England and Wales) and complete higher level exams which allow passage to university or advanced college courses.
The age of smoking is now 18 here, but only changed recently from 16.
Driving?.....17 is the earliest.
So here in Britain:
16-—legal to have sex (straight or gay), legal to work, legal to leave education, legal to go to college, legal to get married without parental consent in Scotland (consent needed in rest of UK), legal to join the armed forces (cannot serve in a war until 17 though) or police (as a junior cadet)
17—legal to drive, legal to go to university
18-—legal adult, so you are free to drink, rent a property, get a mortgage/credit card/loan etc etc etc....
Oh, I agree.
I am just pointing out the loophole in the law that probably informed the judge’s decision. Probably a case of they wanted to, but the law says they cant.
In bed with your ex-girlfriend......
The defence lawyer blew the wrong horn.
Probably just a one-note stand.
Thank goodness they were not trombone players.
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