A former secondary school teacher was sentenced to eight years in jail for having sex with his student.
The judge said the teacher, now 41 and unemployed, had abused his position in the school when he was expected to care for and protect his students.
The man had also committed some of the offences in activity rooms in the school - he even installed a latch on the inside of the door to ensure that he would not be discovered.
The Straits Times earlier reported that their sexual relationship came to light after the man's wife told the student's mother about her suspicions in April last year. The student's father then lodged a police report. The man's wife had discovered intimate text messages to the student and another ex-student while she was using his mobile phone to take pictures of their newly-born second child in January 2010.
The teacher and student first had sex in school sometime during November of December 2007, before school began at 7.30am. The teacher, already married with a child, had bought gifts for the student and praised her for being pretty while on a school trip to Korea before that. The girl then agreed to be his girlfriend. He also tutored her for free. He also lied to her that he was in an unhappy marriage and his wife was filing for divorce.
They had sex on other occasions after that, even inside his car at a car park in Upper Seletar Reservoir Park.
The relationship between the man and the student continued throughout 2009, even though the school received a complaint about inappropriate behaviour between them during a school trip to the United States in 2008.
But she broke off the relationship when she found out that the man's wife had a second child and that he was also having sex with the ex-student.
District judge Jasvender Kaur also noted that the offender had sex with a girl who was below 16 and still a virgin.
The judge said he had clearly taken advantage of the girl's immaturity and vulnerability to satisfy himself.
The man will be allowed to start serving his sentence on January 25 so that he can spend the Lunar New Year with his wife and two daughters.
Source: ST Online
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