A lesbian PE
teacher faces jail today after admitting having sex with a 15-year-old student
she taught at a £24,000-a-year private school for girls.
Emily Fox,
26, who can be named for the first time, pleaded guilty to four counts of
sexual activity with a child while in a position of trust.
She met the
girl when she taught her at the Royal Masonic School for girls in
Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire.
The games teacher
taught there for a year. Today, Fox of Bath, Somerset, admitted the charges at
St Albans Crown Court.
Defence
barrister Dee Connelly asked for the case to be adjourned for a pre-sentence
report.
She said the
sentencing guidelines starting point for the offences was four years in jail
with a range of three to seven years.
Judge
Michael Baker QC adjourned sentence until 5 September and granted Fox bail.
He said she
must now register as a sex offender. He said bail should continue with the
condition that Fox does not attend the Royal Masonic School and has no contact
with anyone aged under 16.
The girl
cannot be identified, but Judge Baker lifted a contempt order that had
prevented publication of the defendant’s name and the name of the school.
The judge
said: 'It is clearly in the public interest to identify the school as well as
the defendant. It is, to my knowledge, by no means a small school.
'I don’t see
how the identification of the school leads to the identification of the child.'
The Royal
Masonic School for Girls takes both day and boarding pupils aged seven to 18,
with a pre-school which takes pupils from the age of two.
It was
founded in 1788 to educate the daughters of Freemasons who were unable to
support their families.
Its famous
buildings have been widely used in films and television including two Indiana
Jones films, in Raiders of the Lost Ark and the Last Crusade.
The site was
used as one of the locations for a film called Me and Orson Welles starring Zak
Efron. It also featured in an episode of
Inspector Morse.
Culled from
Daily Mail
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