Teaching assistant had sex 50 times with pupil half her age
a SChOOLBOY seduced by a teaching assistant has revealed they had unprotected sex more than 50 times.
he claims Caroline Berriman, 30, told him she was pregnant and begged him to elope with her when he tried to end their relationship.
the mother of one escaped a jail sentence despite pleading guilty last week to sexual activity with a child while in a position of trust.
the unnamed 17-year-old said their relationship, which began when he was 15, had scarred him for life. ‘If it was a man and a 15-year-old girl I’m sure the prosecution would have been harsher,’ he told the Sun.
Berriman was handed a suspended two-year sentence and given 250 hours of unpaid community work at Minshull Street crown court in Manchester last Wednesday. She began grooming the schoolboy during one-to-one tuition in maths and english at abraham Moss community school in north Manchester.
the relationship began with flirty texts but soon they were going on long drives in the countryside and watching tv at her house.
after five months of constant texting and calling, they began having regular and unprotected sex. he said: ‘It must have happened over 50 times in the space of those few months.’
the boy said he believed he was in love, but the relationship turned sour when Berriman claimed she was pregnant with his baby and her two-year-old daughter began to call him ‘dad’. the affair finally ended when his mother found out and threatened to call the police if he did not break up with Berriman.
the boy said Berriman, of Oldham, responded by screaming at him: ‘Why have you put me in this position? I’m going to lose my daughter.’
She later turned up at his home on an estate pleading with him to run away with her while carrying £20,000 in cash her parents had lent her.
he reported Berriman to ChildLine and the school suspended her. She has now left her job.
the teenager has also left the school and is looking for work. gillian houghton, the headmistress at abraham Moss, said: ‘Safeguarding pupils is a number one priority for us.’