Teh One Who Knocks
01-15-2015, 12:31 PM
Oliver Wheaton for Metro.co.uk
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A religious studies teacher has been found guilty of having an affair with a 15-year-old student.
However Stuart Kerner, who taught RE at Bexleyheath Academy in south-east London, avoided jail as it was ruled that the pupil ‘groomed’ him.
Judge Joanna Greenberg QC said she accepted the claim that the victim had become ‘obsessed’ with Mr Kerner, and added: ‘Her friends described her, accurately in my view, as stalking you.’
The court heard how during the 18-month affair Mr Kerner took the pupil’s virginity on a yoga mat in and empty room, the same week his wife suffered a miscarriage.
While his wife sobbed in the public gallery, Judge Greenberg also told Mr Kerner: ‘If grooming is the right word to use, it was she who groomed you, (and) you gave in to temptation.’
She added that he was ‘emotionally fragile’ due to the complications surrounding his wife’s pregnancy, however told the teacher that this did not excuse his behaviour.
Mr Kerner was handed an 18-month sentence suspended for 18 months after being found guilty of two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.
Calling the victim ‘intelligent and manipulative’, judge Greenberg commented that the pupil could easily lie when it suited her.
Mr Kerner, who will be placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely and barred form working with children, told police while being interviewed: ‘It felt special. But, I dunno, it wasn’t really. And admitting that does kind of hurt.’
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A religious studies teacher has been found guilty of having an affair with a 15-year-old student.
However Stuart Kerner, who taught RE at Bexleyheath Academy in south-east London, avoided jail as it was ruled that the pupil ‘groomed’ him.
Judge Joanna Greenberg QC said she accepted the claim that the victim had become ‘obsessed’ with Mr Kerner, and added: ‘Her friends described her, accurately in my view, as stalking you.’
The court heard how during the 18-month affair Mr Kerner took the pupil’s virginity on a yoga mat in and empty room, the same week his wife suffered a miscarriage.
While his wife sobbed in the public gallery, Judge Greenberg also told Mr Kerner: ‘If grooming is the right word to use, it was she who groomed you, (and) you gave in to temptation.’
She added that he was ‘emotionally fragile’ due to the complications surrounding his wife’s pregnancy, however told the teacher that this did not excuse his behaviour.
Mr Kerner was handed an 18-month sentence suspended for 18 months after being found guilty of two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.
Calling the victim ‘intelligent and manipulative’, judge Greenberg commented that the pupil could easily lie when it suited her.
Mr Kerner, who will be placed on the sex offenders register indefinitely and barred form working with children, told police while being interviewed: ‘It felt special. But, I dunno, it wasn’t really. And admitting that does kind of hurt.’