ESSEX (UK)
The Guardian
November 23, 2017
By Robert Booth
Stephen Jackson, 72, was fired from Tendring technology college in September after police were alerted to catalogue of historical allegations in California
A teacher who has faced multiple allegations of child sexual abuse in the US and confessed to molesting schoolboys has been uncovered working in a secondary school in Essex, the Guardian can reveal.
Stephen Jackson, 72, taught English to 11- to 13-year-olds at Tendring technology college this term despite previously confessing to police in California that he engaged in sexual acts with children.
It has also emerged that he previously worked for two years at a school in south London without being discovered.
Jackson joined the staff of the 2,000-pupil Tendring college, in Frinton-on-Sea, in June this year. However, he was fired after a fortnight of lessons this term after Essex police raised concerns, having received “intelligence concerning a teacher working in the Tendring area”.
He is believed to have left the country, possibly travelling to Venezuela.
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