A college trainer has been completely banned from educating after grooming a teenage scholar with pizza events and journeys to London.
Anthony Bennett’s inappropriate relationship started 20-years-ago when the woman was simply 16, and Bennett would log out emails to her and her buddy with “love Tony.” Bennett took the virginity of the woman, often called Pupil B, when she was 16 years outdated, lower than six months after she left Swan Valley Community School, in Swanscombe, Kent.
The Teacher Regulation Agency panel heard that the pupil left faculty and the connection continued, at which level Bennett, now 42, promised to depart his spouse for her. He instructed her they might run away collectively. The panel heard how Bennett pressured Pupil B’s buddy to cover how the trainer felt about her. Pupil B’s mum flagged the connection within the early 2000s and Pupil B recalled him teaching her on the right way to reply whereas an investigation happened.
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Despite considerations over a number of different inappropriate relationships being flagged over the previous twenty years, Bennett nonetheless managed to rise the ranks to working as an assistant head trainer at East Tilbury Primary School, Essex. During the listening to, the woman mentioned: “Anthony abused me mentally. He’d cleverly find ways to undermine my self-esteem, to make me feel ashamed and lonely.”
She mentioned she discovered the listening to “very, very hard” and that she “loved him desperately”. The sufferer and a buddy, often called Pupil A, first met Bennett when he was their tutor and PE trainer. He began grooming each ladies with days out to London, taking the pair to the capital throughout examination season.
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During the journey he made Pupil B uncomfortable by placing his ft on her bum, the listening to was instructed. Bennett was additionally mentioned to have taken a bunch of six ladies from his Year 11 kind group for a meal at Pizza Hut. The trainer confronted 5 allegations together with sending inappropriate messages to pupils, partaking in a romantic and/or sexual relationship with Pupil B, and demonstrating parts of constructing an inappropriate relationship.
He was additionally accused of failing to take care of requirements of behaviour anticipated between himself and pupils, and that his conduct was sexually motivated. He was discovered responsible on all 5 counts, though his conduct in direction of Pupil A was not deemed sexually motivated.
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The panel report mentioned: “Mr Bennett did have a previously good history and the panel accepted that the incident appeared out of character, in light of his otherwise long and successful career in teaching. The impact of Mr Bennett’s conduct had been ‘massive’ and that Pupil B had been scarred by his conduct.
“Its affect had reached into different relationships and affected her training as she had withdrawn from additional training on the time of this conduct at Mr Bennett’s behest. The panel discovered that Mr Bennett’s actions have been deliberate and there was no proof that he was appearing below duress.”
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