There’s a court case going on here at the moment involving a 43 year old woman school teacher accused of having sex with a 15 year old boy student.  This is particularly close to home here, as it all happened at my son’s school, albeit the boy involved was a few years ahead of him at the school.

The former St Francis Xavier College teacher  is on trial in the ACT Supreme Court accused of having sex with the boy five times during the course of the eight-month relationship, including in the teacher’s bedroom and on her desk at the school.  She was a science teacher at Saint Francis Xavier and coordinator of the boy’s Year 9 group when the alleged offences were committed, and has pleaded not guilty to five counts of sexual intercourse with a person under the age of 16 and one count of maintaining a relationship with a person under the age of 16. The evidence reported in the case has been quite lurid, with the alleged victim telling the court that a flirtation by mobile phone soon turned into an affair involving oral sex, anal sex and vibrators.

Yesterday prosecutors paraded 15 dildos and vibrators through the courtroom as part of their case.  Now, as amusing as this may have been, I’m not really sure what it contributed to the prosecution case.  Perhaps they are trying to portray her as the kind of sex-crazed nymphomaniac who is the type to be pursuing 15 year old boys?

My son and I were talking about the case yesterday.  I asked if he knew this teacher.  He said he’d only had her once ….which after a little chuckle he clarified as meaning as teacher for one lesson.

Update (22/5/09) – seems the judge was unimpressed by the sex toys presented in evidence.  He said he was completely puzzled as to why the prosecution tendered them as evidence.