A teacher jailed for assaulting a 15-year-old girl in her car has been banned from class for life.
Aimee Jones, 35, was caught in a sexual relationship with the girl by her husband Philip, a social worker, who told police.
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The mother of a wax eight months in prison in November after admitting to having sexual activity with a child between the ages of 13 and 17.
Jones, who was also on the sex offender registry for 10 years, is now banned from teaching indefinitely. Teesside Live reports.
This includes entering a school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation or children’s home in England.
A misconduct panel “considered that public confidence in the profession could be seriously weakened if conduct such as that found against Ms. Jones was not treated with the utmost seriousness.”
They added: “The panel has decided that public interest considerations outweigh Ms Jones’ interests.
“The extremely serious nature of Ms Jones’ crimes and the fact that they involved sexual activity, sexual communication with a child and an inappropriate relationship with a child were important factors in forming that opinion.”
Teesside Crown Court heard how Jones, head of science and maths, first approached the teenager last year when she was just 15.
They then kissed and touched each other sexually while hidden by a blanket in Jones’ car.
The pair embarked on a 15-month relationship that only ended when Jones’ husband found out she was having an affair.
Jones made up a female teaching assistant she had an affair with at the school in Darlington, County Durham, to initially set him off.
She even asked her school to pretend that a staff member by that name was there when he called to cover up the abuse.
Jones and her husband agreed to stay together for the sake of their four-year-old son.
But the social worker took his wife to the police after discovering that her lover was in fact a teenage girl.
Jones was then escorted off the school grounds by police in front of the staff and students and lost her job.
In a victim impact statement, the victim’s mother said the abrupt end of the relationship was “like a grief process” for her daughter.
She added: “She has no doubt they were in love and would have preferred the relationship to continue.
“She’s now fully aware that it’s something that shouldn’t have happened in the first place.”
The mother continued: “At best [Jones] was foolish, but at worst she preyed on the fact that our daughter was vulnerable from the start.”
Jones, who did not attend the misconduct hearing, has 28 days to appeal her ban from teaching.
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