This is hard for me to imagine. I can more understand Males being the abuser but a female with an 11 year old is hard to grasp unless he was being forced to do ..ahem..certain things.
The whole family seems nutty. Diana certainly had problems.
That said, there are a lot of deranged people in positions of power so anything is possible.
this sentence is interesting
‘In a statement to the Mail, Maidwell School said: “It is difficult to read about practices which were, sadly, sometimes believed to be normal and acceptable at that time.”
This would appear to apply to the beating part because a pedo female teacher messing around with 11 year old boys was not normal back then..at least not that i know of