Teacher jailed 12 months for sleeping with a 16 year old pupil

A mother turned detective to expose a relationship between her 16 year old son and his Geography teacher. The teacher Lauren Cox 27, who worked at a school in south London, met the boy when he was 13 and would give him sweets, a court heard.
The prosecutor, Brian Reece said in February last year Cox gave the boy a lift.He said: ‘They could either sit in silence, she could simply drop him at the station – or they could hug.
‘He chose the third. This was the first step into what she knew was forbidden territory.’
By March, they began a sexual relationship when he turned 16.
Cox went on the pill, telling him it would ‘feel better’.
She also sent him explicit selfie videos and told him to keep the relationship a secret.

The boy, tried to fool his parents by inventing teenage girlfriends.
Suspicious, his mother spied on him and watched Cox pick him up in her car at the family home.
In a showdown with the mother last August, the teacher claimed she was giving ‘extra tuition’ before agreeing to end the affair and resign.

In a statement, the boy, said he ‘felt trapped’ and distanced himself from his friends and family.
Judge Adam Huddleston told Cox: ‘You have not just been a shame and disgrace to yourself, you have brought teaching into disrepute.’

Lauren, screamed and said ‘I’m sorry’ after she was jailed for 12 months for five counts of sex with a child in her charge.
The mother of the teen was praised by the judge for uncovering the relationship.
But as Cox was led from Croydon Crown Court the schoolboy’s mother told Cox’s mother: ‘I didn’t have a choice, he is my son.’
Cox’s mother replied: ‘You did have a choice. How do you sleep at night?’

Cox has been jailed for 12 months and barred from teaching.
She is getting a divorce from husband Andrew, 30.