Warning for explicit pics

A FORMER Gold Coast teacher has been reprimanded for storing explicit photos and videos of his former partner on a school computer.

The images also contained captions and titles such as “I killed my baby” and “this is sex on hell fire” after the woman had an abortion.

The teacher will be able to reapply for registration as a teacher despite the reprimand.

The reprimand comes almost a year after the teacher, who has not worked in schools since 2015, was found not guilty last year of three counts of raping his former partner.

The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal last month ruled the teacher needified ed to be publicly reprimanded and a note put on his registration details with the Queensland College of Teachers for the explicit photos he stored on his computer.

The teacher was found with “high graphic videos and pictures of sexual acts” between him and his former partner, also a teacher.

The computer also contained “a compilation of photographs imputing captions to (the teacher’s former partner) including ‘I killed my baby girl’, including ‘I have two kids so (expletive) you (name redacted). I don’t care that I’m killing your only child’, and ‘My sister (name redacted), a midwife, will organise the murder’.”

QCAT ordered the teacher and the school not be ident- due to the nature of the incident.

“The tribunal would not expect, even in the most liberalthinking schools, that this use was permissible or appropriate,” QCAT member Bevan Hughes wrote in his decision.

The teacher does not hold a current registration, but a notation of the reprimand will be held on his record.

He told QCAT he hoped registration as a teacher would be reinstated. “He strongly disputed his suspension as a teacher because he says it was based on allegations that were ultimately proven false in court,” Mr Hughes wrote.

The reprimand does not stop the teacher from gaining registration with the Queensland College of Teachers.