TEEN SEX ROMP TEACHER CLEARED Pair bonked in secret at her caravan
A TEACHER who admitted having sex with a teenage former pupil was cleared of all charges against her yesterday.
Deborah Lowe, 54, wiped away tears as she was told she could leave the dock and was free to go by the judge, following a seven-day trial at Minshull Street Crown Court in Manchester.
The jury, who were out for two hours and seven minutes deliberating, found Lowe not guilty of five counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.
She had stood, hands clasped in front of her, swaying slightly and breathing deeply as the jury foreman returned the verdicts.
Flattered
Lowe had admitted having sex with the teenager, after being “flattered” by the boy’s attention and was having a “midlife crisis” when they began a relationship.
The divorcee said at the time she had become interested in meditation and yoga, visited Bali, sold her flat in suburban Cheshire and given up her job as head of pastoral care at a high school to go travelling in India to “explore her faith”.
But she maintained the relationship with the boy, 35 years her junior, only became sexual after he had left school and he was 17.
The prosecution had alleged that sex began when the boy was 16 – and although old enough to legally consent, Lowe broke the law by having sex with him when being a person in a position of trust, his teacher.
Earlier, the court heard that in a jokey WhatsApp message to a friend Lowe told her she was not having sex with the boy and described herself as a “mother” figure.
But she added: “...If not in the too distant future he wants to discuss the merits of an older woman I will be there for him” followed by emojis of a bottle of baby oil and a pair of handcuffs.
The teenager had told the jury after “flirting” at school they swapped phone numbers and first engaged in phone sex before sexual encounters in her home, car and caravan.
A former air hostess who has worked in education for 14 years, Lowe told the jury sex first took place after he contacted her around December 2016 – three months after he left school, and she took him to her flat in the Stockport area of Greater Manchester.
They kissed and had sex and later on also had sex at his home while his mum, who Lowe knew, was out of the house.
Slut
The relationship continued into 2017 with more secret liaisons in the caravan where she lived.
She sent him a card signing off with: “The slut,” a name they used during, “rough” sex sessions where he pulled her hair and she bit and scratched his back till it bled.
The boy told jurors it was “every lad’s fantasy” to have sex with a teacher but admitted later feeling “creeped out” because of the age gap.
Police were called in last summer after his mother found the card Lowe sent to him.
Lowe, who has a daughter, aged 28 and a son, 20, said later she felt, “mortified and embarrassed” over her “foolish infatuation” and denied being “sexually obsessed” with the youngster.
She had denied five counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.