Teacher Who Married Former Primary School Student 34 Years Younger Than Him Gets Deregistered

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A teacher decided to marry a former primary school 34 years younger than him has been deregisterd. The man told the tribunal that he immigrated to New Zealand with his former wife. He came upon the primary school student in a rural village in New Zealand’s North Island when she was just 11 years old, and he taught her through Years 7 and 8 at the end of her primary school education.

According to the Teacher’s Disciplinary Tribunal, the girl, that needed extra learning support, had been grommed socially and she was given jewelry and money by the teacher, who was even seen holding hands with her. The girl’s cousin told the Tribunal that her cousin would sometimes stay with her teacher after classes.
According to her, the conversations between the girl and the teacher were not normal, and the teacher even gave the girl’s cousin $5 and some earrings.

The tribunal found that there was insufficient evidence to prove that the teacher engaged in any serious misconduct while his future wife was still at his school, but once once she left primary school, he regularly saw her outside of school hours and even invited her to his house to play on his jet ski.

The girl’s parents told the tribunal that they only found about the relationship when their daughter turned 18.

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The police turned up at the girl’s home in 2017 and asked where she was, but the mom thought that she was with her friends.

However, the police said that she was with the teacher.

The mom then found contraceptive pills in her daughter’s drawer, and the girl confessed to her mother that the teacher insisted that she was on the pill. According to the girl’s father, he had asked her if she wanted to go to Australia and look for a better life, and she said yes.

Her parents sent her over to live in Australia with her brother and set her up with a car. The teacher went to Australia to look for her, but the girl’s brother then sent her back to New Zealand.

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Just a week after the girl came home, she left for the teacher’s house. A month later, she informed her parents that she and the teacher were moving to China, but she didn’t really want to go and appeared scared.

The dad even got into a fight with the teacher to stop him from doing that.

The tribunal eventually found that the man’s behavior was ‘at the most extreme end’ of serious misconduct for years, and they canceled his teaching registration.

The man, however, married the girl when she was 20 years old, and he was 54.
Both the girl and the teacher told the tribunal that their relationship began after she turned 16.

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The girl even said that her wedding day was ‘the happiest time of her life’ and that her former teacher ‘means the world to her’.

Source: Daily Mail