Date published: 2008/10/05
The BBC says:
Teachers should not be prosecuted for having affairs with their sixth formers, a union chief has said.
NASUWT general secretary Chris Keates said it was an "anomaly" that a teacher who had sex with a pupil aged over 16 could go on the sex offenders register.
She told ITV's Tonight programme the law was wrong because a teacher could legally enter a relationship with a sixth former at another school.
Child protection professionals have criticised her comments.
In 2001, the law was changed to make it illegal for teachers to engage in sexual activity with pupils at their school aged under 18.
But Miss Keates said the abuse of trust law had gone too far in cases where the relationship started after a pupil had reached the age of consent.
She is correct. The teacher should be sacked (from that school) but it is ridiculous beyond belief to make this a criminal offense.
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