A married teacher who had sex with a 16-year-old student in a toilet block and a school classroom has been banned from teaching for seven years.A tribunal heard the male Queensland teacher, who was in his 30s at the time, also slept with the girl in her home bedroom when her family were not there.Before having sexual intercourse with the young student, the teacher also touched the bottom, thigh and waist of another student during a school camp.
The head of department teacher was suspended for ‘brazen’ behaviour between 2012 and 2016.The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal heard the teacher and the student he had sex with exchanged phone numbers near the end of the 2015 school year.In December 2015, he picked her up from near her home and then took her to the toilet block of a cycling facility – where they ‘kissed, touched and had sexual intercourse’.
They then had sex again at the student’s home later that month, before doing so again in a school classroom early in the 2016 school year. Court documents show the teacher had suggested the girl ‘not wear underwear to the meeting’ in the classroom and remarked he preferred short skirts.
But at tribunal the teacher denied having sex with the student, saying he would have been unavailable at the time due to family commitments.
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