An acclaimed head teacher had sex with an underage boy in his
uniform as he played truant from school, a court heard yesterday.
Anne Lakey, 54, who transformed her school into one of the
best in the country, phoned the boy’s
school and – referring to herself as his ‘mummy’ – said he was too ill to go,
it was alleged.
Lakey, referred to as a ‘predator’ and ‘disgusting sexual
monster’, is accused of grooming the boy from the age of 13 or 14 for a
year-long period in the late 1980s.
The court was told she had sex with the impressionable
teenager at her family home. When her husband returned unexpectedly, she made
the boy hide in a cupboard.
Lakey appeared at Durham Crown Court yesterday accused of a
string of ‘predatory’ sexual offences, including sex with a boy under 16.
She is accused of having sex with him while he was in his school uniform and exposing herself to
him.
The offences were said to have occurred when she was a
teacher in her late 20s, but the alleged victim was not a pupil.
She denies the claims, dismissing them as ‘just a fantasy’.
She met her alleged victim, the court heard, when he was just
13 or 14 and began to exploit him, eventually seducing him while he played
truant from school at her home.
Caroline Goodwin, prosecuting, said: ‘At this house, groups
of boys would gather – her husband at the time was sometimes there. Sooner or
later he, the complainant, began to go by himself. It was then that the
relationship took on a more sinister overtone.
‘He was a teenager who was naturally curious about sex, she
flattered him and paid attention to him. He was a young teenager who was being
groomed by a woman who was a sexual predator.’
The court heard how Lakey asked the complainant if he would
play a game of ‘dare’ with her, which resulted in her baring her breasts and
allowing him to touch them.
Later she allowed the boy to sit on a step outside the bath
as she washed and then stood up and walked into the bedroom, dropped her towel
and asked him ‘what are you going to do then?’
Then, the court heard, she had sex with the boy, still
dressed in his school uniform, and continued to have a sexual relationship with
him regularly after that.
The court heard that Lakey told the boy she loved him and he
would say it back. Miss Goodwin said the opportunities to have sex were
‘plentiful’ and Lakey would sometimes call the boy’s school, refer to herself
as the boy’s ‘mummy’ and say that he was not coming in because of illness.
The complainant came forward in 2012 after seeing a piece of
literature which said that Lakey was committed to giving young people the best
chance in life.
In a letter, he called the defendant a ‘disgusting sexual
monster’. Lakey, from Stanley, County
Durham, was described as an ‘inspiring leader’ by the Chief Inspector of
Education after improving GCSE pass rates at her struggling school by focusing
on vocational education.
But she was suspended from her position as chief executive of
the Durham Federation of Schools last December after the allegations came to
light.
She denies all nine
charges against her, which include two counts of inciting a boy to commit an act of gross indecency, two of gross indecency, and five counts of indecent assault.
The offences are said to have happened between April 1988 and
May 1989.
Lakey became the head teacher at Deerness Valley
Comprehensive in 2001 which later became one of two schools to form the Durham
Federation of Schools.
Under Lakey’s leadership the school boasted GCSE pass rates
of 80 per cent in 2013 against 26 per cent the year before, and it was named
the country’s most improved secondary school last year.
Lakey, who was appointed to the national leaders of
education, a body charged with transforming struggling schools, entered
teaching in 1982. The trial continues.
Culled From Daily Mail
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