School mentor sent sex texts to teenage pupil

A female secondary school mentor sent a teenage pupil 3,000 texts in two months and told him: “I think I’m falling for you,” a court heard.

Ellen Cadman-smith told the 15-year-old he “drove her insane” and “I want you so badly”. The victim’s mother saw the texts and told police.

Cadman-smith, 24, who suffers from “extreme anxiety”, was charged with sexual communication with a child as she was deemed “not mentally fit enough” to enter a plea or stand trial. An Isle of Wight Crown Court jury found she committed the act and Judge Susan Evans KC imposed a five-year sexual harm prevention order on her.