AUSTRALIA
The West Australian
August 2, 2019
By Pierra Willix
One of two female students sexually abused by her young female teacher says she is now too scared to enter a classroom.
The teacher, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was today sentenced to seven and a half years in jail for the crime.
The terrified student, who was 17 at the time of the abuse, wrote to the court saying she had put off university studies in fear of being back in a classroom.
In the victim impact statement, the girl said she had been made to believe that what was happening between her and the teacher was “normal”, but she was now struggling to come to terms with the abuse.
“She is largely carrying the burden of what happened to her,” Judge Ronald Birmingham said.
The arts teacher, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was working at a southern suburbs school when she targeted the two girls between 2015 and 2017.
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