Teacher had a foursome with girl pupil and paid thousands to hush it all up
A WOMAN teacher had an orgy with a girl pupil and two men – then paid £13,000 in hush money to keep the affair quiet.
Mother-of-four Francoise Jenkins was yesterday banned from teaching over the affair with the teenage student, which lasted almost two years.
Jenkins, 45, took the vulnerable 18-year-old home to share a bed with her male partner.
She also visited the girl at a homeless shelter, using her teacher’s ID to get in, a disciplinary panel was told.
On another occasion, the student brought a male friend for a four-in-a-bed session.
When the teacher’s then-partner threatened to tell the school about the affair, Jenkins paid him £13,000 – approximately €15,000 – to keep him quiet.
Jenkins had started as a supply teacher at Danum Academy in Doncaster, in Yorkshire, in February 2007. Within two months she befriended the student, referred to as ‘Pupil A’, after taking her mobile number from the school computer. Jenkins said ‘they kissed, cuddled and were friends’ and she sometimes visited the girl at the shelter.
But one day, the panel heard, the bisexual teacher returned to the shelter for sex, signing in with her ID badge. Later, on the night of a school prom, she took the girl for drinks and they went back to the teacher’s home for what Jenkins later described as ‘a bit of grope’. She asked the student to ‘come upstairs with me’ and they shared a bed with her then-partner, known only as ‘Individual C’.
On one occasion, the girl went to Jenkins’s house with a male friend, known as ‘Individual A’, for a foursome. The National College for Teaching and Leadership panel, which investigates allegations of misconduct in the teaching profession in the UK, said: ‘Pupil A describes how she had sex with Individual A but cried and had asked for it to stop as she did not want to have sex with a man.’
Jenkins admitted her ex ‘always threatened to tell the school’, saying: ‘I paid him off in the end as he wouldn’t leave the house and [he] asked for money to stop him telling.’ In 2007 the student told staff at her hostel about the relationship but it was not taken further because she was not ready to go through with an investigation. The relationship ended in 2008.
But in October 2015, she sent a text message to Jenkins, reminding her of the sex at the homeless shelter. Jenkins called it ‘the stuff that shouldn’t have happened’, but according to the panel’s chair she still tried to re-ignite the relationship.
The former student, now in her 20s, finally reported the fling to the school.
Jenkins was suspended and an investigation began, leading
‘Shouldn’t have happened’
to yesterday’s decision. Neighbours who live near the Jenkins’s home said yesterday that she was ‘sex-crazed’.
One said: ‘Her husband used to complain that she was a total sex maniac. It’s common knowledge that she was at it all night. People living closest to her couldn’t sleep for the headboard banging against the wall.’
Banning Jenkins from teaching for life, a representative of the UK’s Education Secretary, said the relationship was ‘only possible because Ms Jenkins was in a position of trust as a teacher’. Jenkins was in Tenerife yesterday but a friend said: ‘She has four very nice children going on to good careers and it’s all a pack of lies. She a wonderful teacher.’