Married Female Teacher Caught Having Sex With A Pupil Spared Jail By Court

Yesterday, Dawson was told she would escape a custodial sentence after earlier admitting having sex with the 17-year-old boy in the front seat of her car last December.
She will have to return to court to learn her fate next month, but a sheriff told her she had breached a position of trust, although she had not abused anyone.

Eppie Sprung Dawson, 27, was targeted when she was aged between 13 and 18 by a man 29 years her senior, a sheriff was told. 

Sheriff George Jamieson added: 'You were there simply to teach but you have been called into temptation and you have committed adultery – your marriage is gone, and your career as a teacher is gone. 'What you have been charged with is breach of trust, and I cannot see that there is anything to be gained by a custodial sentence. 'Had it not been for the fact that you were this young man's teacher, there would have been no criminality.'

Dawson, of Dumfries, will return to court on July 10 to find out what counseling and help is available through social work services and to give her a chance to attend psycho-sexual counseling.

Sheriff Jamieson said it was likely she would be made the subject of a community payback order, but it had not yet reached that stage. Earlier this year, Dawson admitted that on December 21 last year, while she was in a position of trust and being the teacher of the youth, she engaged in sexual activities with, or directed towards, a person under the age of 18 and that she had sexual intercourse with him.

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