Thursday, June 10, 2010

Orange school teacher grooms primary school children for sex

AN electronic trail of sexually explicit communication with students may lead to jail for a former teacher at an Orange primary school.
The 36-year-old teacher yesterday pleaded guilty to 12 charges including using the internet to groom a child for sexual activity, using an electronic service to menace, harass or offend and several child pornography offences.

He was committed to the Orange District Court for sentence later this year.

Neither the man nor the school he was employed at can be named, with Orange Local Court placing a non-publication order on any information that may identify the victims.

One victim, an 11-year-old boy, was communicating with the teacher via an internet messaging service on the evening of July 2 last year.

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