Paedo Teacher Banned For Grooming Minor Teen Girl, Having Oral Sex With Her

Assistant headteacher, Spencer Radford, has been banned from teaching for having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old female student.

The 49-year-old was reported to Cheshire police in 2018 by one of his former students, who claimed to have had a sexual relationship with her teacher for over a year. Cheshire police dropped the investigation, but an investigation by the government’s Teacher Regulation Agency found the allegations to be proven, reported Cheshire Live.

Radford was found to have had oral sex with the girl after inviting her to his house. He also arranged to meet her in his school store cupboard, invited the girl to stay over at his house, and told another student that he was in love with the girl.

She told the investigation that outside of school "they would be a couple," but that they were "always looking over their shoulders."

The teacher had worked at Thomas Adams School in Wem, Shropshire, since 2006. However, the relationship with the student started while he was working at his previous school believed to be in Cheshire, where he was employed between 1995 and 2006.

The relationship lasted from 1999 to 2001. When it started, the girl was 14 and Radford was 28.

The former student, referred to by the Teacher Misconduct Panel as Pupil A, said the relationship "fizzled out" before her 16th birthday.

The report from the panel stated, “Pupil A in her written evidence said that when she was at Mr Radford’s house she spent time snuggled on the sofa with him watching films. As the relationship progressed Pupil A said that they progressed to kissing and engaging in oral sex where they started on the sofa and then went into the bedroom.

“Pupil A told the panel that it 'took a long time, like any normal relationship would, the only thing not normal was the teacher and pupil part and the age gap, everything else was normal everything progressed really slowly. I was young it was all firsts it probably took a long time.

“Pupil A in her evidence said she and Mr Radford thought that when she left school 'they would be a couple.'"

The student, who reported Radford three years ago when in her 30s, said at the time as a schoolgirl it "felt normal" but after looking back she "realised it wasn’t normal."

Radford admitted to the allegations of exchanging messages with the student, giving lifts to her and entering the girl’s home with her. But Radford denied allegations of sexual activity, staying overnight with the student and commenting that he was in love with her. However, the allegations were found proven by the Teaching Regulation Agency misconduct panel.

In another incident, a 67-year-old Long Island man and teacher at a school in Jersey City has been charged with sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl who was his student, NBC New York reported last month.

Apparao Sunkara was charged with sexual assault in the second degree, and endangering the welfare of a child in the second degree, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. The girl, who is now 12, was allegedly assaulted in the Infinity Institute school in 2019.