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Private-school Teacher Jailed for 17 Years for Raping Student

By Paul Sims
The Sun
July 14, 2018

https://nypost.com/2018/07/14/private-school-teacher-jailed-for-17-years-for-raping-student/

A teacher at a top private school was yesterday jailed for 17 years for raping a pupil he had groomed.

James Husband, now 68, told the 16-year-old girl: “It’s OK, I’ve had a vasectomy.”

His victim had been earmarked for a place at Cambridge University but failed to get the grades due to a three-year cycle of sexual abuse, a court heard.

Husband, who taught history at Christ’s Hospital School, West Sussex, was convicted of rape and five sexual assault counts on the girl last week.

He targeted her as she was “particularly vulnerable and intelligent”, Hove crown court heard.

The victim, 14 when the abuse began in 1990, was left with a “life sentence” of anorexia, suicidal thoughts and self-harm.

In an impact statement, she said: “The grooming process was devious and malignant by making me feel special for the first time in my life.

“I became dependent on him for my own feeling of self worth.”

The court heard she went to school chaplain Gary Dobbie about the abuse — and he also sexually assaulted her.

Dobbie, 67, was convicted last week of abusing eight children as young as 12. He will be sentenced at a later date.

Judge Christine Henson told Husband: “She viewed you as a father figure, thus rendering the abuse of trust particularly acute.” Defending, Charlotte Newell told the court: “The shame will live with him emotionally and socially for life.”

Police said the victim showed “real courage” to report Husband and Dobbie’s abuse in 2016.

Husband, of Wigginton, North Yorks, was placed on the sex offenders’ register for life.

It brings to five the number of Christ’s Hospital School teachers convicted of sexual abuse.

Peter Webb and Peter Burr were jailed last year for offences between the 1960s and 1980s.

Ajaz Karim is due to be sentenced next month.

 

 

 

 

 




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