[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

These cases are even worse when it's a teacher or teaching assistant because they have such a duty of care towards students.

Originally Posted by Josy

I agree completely.

I also hate how the media deal with these stories too, say if it's a decent looking female they post pics of them all dressed nice with make up etc or you get headlines like 'glamourous teaching assistant sleeps with boy' and then you get people saying things like 'what a lad' etc etc now if you swing the story around and it's a male teaching assistant it's a completely different story.

Regardless of what gender those involved are it's completely unacceptable.

..I agree with you both, it's a complete betrayal of someone who is in a position of trust and akin to something like a police officer...school staff have endless training of situations that may arise of a child 'making a disclosure' to them of something that had made/was making the child feel uncomfortable...the disclosures are often made to school staff and within schools because children don't always feel they can talk to parents or family members for whatever reasons and school staff represent 'trust' to them...it's one of the worst things for someone to betray that trust like she did and exploit his vulnerability....

...also, yes Josy...when you look at the pics of this story and try to 'flip it'...say it was an attractive male school worker..?..I just can't imagine that anyone or many people in the public would find it anything other than distasteful and inappropriate to the story and what he had done...if he was media presented as a physically 'hot guy'...