Former teacher facing hearing

Woman accused of sexual misconduct with her students

A former teacher at Franco Cité Catholic Secondary School faces a disciplinary hearing based on allegations of sexual misconduct and other inappropriate behaviour with students.

Andréane Hélène Cadieux is accused of professional misconduct, alleged, among other things, to have had a sexual relationship with a student during the 2009-2010 school year.

She is also accused of touching the student sexually, displaying a tattoo on her upper thigh to the student, offering to pay $600 for the student’s football camp and sending “pornographic photographs” of herself to the student, according to a notice of hearing for the discipline committee of the Ontario College of Teachers, which is to hear the case in Toronto starting Monday.

Names and ages of the students were not provided on the public notice of hearing, which states that Cadieux resigned from her teaching position.

Cadieux is also alleged to have exchanged inappropriate emails and text messages with a second student, and to have made a comment of a sexual nature — “I’ve done it 40 times at the Rideau Centre” — to a third, the notice states.

It’s also alleged that Cadieux “engaged in inappropriate electronic communication with students at the school,” and “behaved inappropriately with the students, when she invited some students to her wedding.”

Names and ages of the students were not provided on the public notice of hearing, which states that Cadieux resigned from her teaching position in April 2010.

Her certificate of qualification and registration were suspended in May 2011 for nonpayment of fees, according to the college’s website.

Cadieux declined to comment when reached on Friday.

The college’s website states that Cadieux received her teacher training at the University of Ottawa, graduating in 2008. She taught at the same school in 2008-2009 and 2009-2010, according to the notice of hearing.

The French Catholic school board that oversees the school — the Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est (CECCE) — stated Friday that it had “fulfilled its legal obligations by filing a complaint for professional misconduct in June 2010 with the Ontario College of Teachers.

The hearing is scheduled for two days.