Relief teacher took student's virginity, promised her marriage

By Chai Hung Yin
The New Paper
Thursday, Mar 21, 2013 

SINGAPORE - He asked her to be his girlfriend, had sex with her and promised to marry her.
But she was only 13 years old then.
And he was her relief teacher, 14 years older than her.
Last Monday, Ross Ryan Kristiaensen, now 30, pleaded guilty to two counts of having sex with his underage student.
Two other similar charges will be taken into consideration during sentencing on April 3.
A district court heard that the two became close after a salad-making competition at the end of July 2009.
Kristiaensen, who taught home economics, was the teacher in charge of preparing students for the competition organised by a local community centre.
A day before the competition, he asked her out for lunch and they later went shopping for items for the competition.
After that, they started exchanging text messages and calling each other daily.
She treated him as an older brother with whom she shared her problems.
He also treated her as a younger sister and asked her out for meals.
About four months later, they met for breakfast, after which he invited her back to his flat at Commonwealth Avenue.

While in his bedroom, they kissed and hugged. He then asked her to be his girlfriend, and she agreed.
He told her to keep it a secret.
About a week later, he invited her to his home again and they had sex for the first time. After taking her virginity, he promised to marry her.
They had sex again on New Year's Eve at a condominium on Bayshore Road and at his home again in June 2010.

On Sept 1, 2010, she saw an online chat between him and another girl.
When she asked him about it, he claimed that she did not have time for him, pushing him to talk to another girl.
They argued and broke up that month, but she still had feelings for him so they kept in touch.
About five weeks later, she asked him over to her home when her parents were overseas. He spent the night in her bedroom and they had sex.
Two days later, he was hospitalised and she visited him, missing dinner with her family.
Her brother found out where she was and went looking for her with their mother and his wife.
There, they saw her sitting very close to Kristiaensen and she was crying.
Kristiaensen identified himself as her teacher. When asked what was going on between ?them, he said she had no friends and he was helping her with her studies.
When she was confronted by her family members at home later, the girl confessed to having a sexual relationship with Kristiaensen and made a police report the following day.

She maintained contact with Kristiaensen because she loved him and missed him. Kristiaensen, on the other hand, asked her to stop contacting him.

Following the police report, the school terminated his service and the Ministry of Education de-registered him as a relief teacher.
Deputy Public Prosecutor (DPP) Kavita Uthrapathy said the accused had preyed on the victim's youth and vulnerability, and had taken away her innocence merely to satiate his lust.
Kristiaensen exploited her as his "sexual plaything" and after the offences came to light, he "callously discarded her".
He didn't come clean with what he did and lied when confronted by the victim's sister-in-law about their relationship.
In view of all these, DPP Kavita pressed for a sentence that would serve as a lesson for the accused's transgressions and to deter others from such conduct.
Anyone convicted of sexual penetration of a minor can be jailed up to 10 years, fined or both.


Other Bad teachers
March 14, 2013
A 32-year-old teacher, a married mother of three, was sentenced to a year's jail for having sex with her student, who was then 13. They had sex four times, oral sex once and she committed an obscene act with him once.
Oct 29, 2011
A 32-year-old teacher was sentenced to one-year jail for having sex with her then 15-year-old student. The married teacher in a top school had sex with the boy nine times.
Feb 23, 2009
A former primary school teacher was jailed 10 months for having sex with a 15-year-old boy. She was the first woman in Singapore to be hauled to court for being sexually intimate with an underage boy.
She had sex with him six times