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Cheshire Teacher Commits Adultery with 15 year old Pupil

Normally (insofar as the experiences we cover can be classed as “normal”) adultery takes place between two consenting adults – one of whom is in a marriage. Textbook definitions and all that. Occasionally though, a case comes to our attention that is even less savoury.

Madeleine Martin, 39, of Knutsford, Cheshire was jailed today for sleeping with a 15 year old pupil in her care. The two had begun talking through Facebook and after apparently under a weeks’ worth of cybersex proceeded to full sex in various places like his uncle’s house and a supermarket car park (where a security guard shooed them away).

At her hearing, the judge noted that her relationship with her husband had “ended” but without divorce she was still committing adultery, which really seems like the lesser of two sins here anyway.

It is interesting to note that reaction is rather different to when girls get abused by boys. Partly, I daresay we can easily picture the victim getting massive kudos from his mates from shagging a teacher in a way we can’t ever imagine a girl doing. However, his parents puncture that rosy picture, saying that he had ‘lost his sparkle’ and was no longer in full time education having been picked on by other children in his year.

Maybe the judge sums it up best:

“You started to abuse the trust you were entrusted with. Eventually you lured him into intimacies which should never have happened. You are to blame, not him. Those of either sex in a position of trust must expect significant punishment when they abuse that trust – especially sexually.”

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