Teacher sexually abused pupils at multiple schools

Former PE teacher Bronwen James, 30, of Chippenham, Wiltshire, admitted nine intersexual offences against two teenage girls—one a pupil at Bitterne Park School in Southampton, the other at Hardenhuish School in Chippenham. She was previously convicted at Winchester Crown Court of three counts of intersexual enactment with a 16‑year‑old boy who also attended Bitterne Park School. During the trial the prosecution stated that James "craved" attraction and "abused the spot enactment successful her" arsenic a teacher. The jury found James blameworthy of the three counts of intersexual enactment with a child by an individual in a position of trust by an 11‑to‑1 majority and acquitted her of a fourth charge. Because of legal restrictions on the trial, the media were unable to report James’s guilty pleas against the two girls—which she entered in January—until after the jury had returned its verdict. The jury was not informed of those pleas beforehand. James showed no emotion as the verdict was read; she stood staring at the floor while the jury left the courtroom. The judge ordered her to surrender her passport and to be monitored with an electronic tag until Monday, when she will be taken into custody ahead of sentencing. Throughout the five‑day trial prosecutors said James had entered into a "flirty" narration with the pupil and they had communicated via Snapchat earlier they had enactment astat e her location "three oregon four" times. The assemblage besides heard that James told the lad she loved him and wanted him to determination distant with her. Giving grounds successful court, the teen said: "I thought she cared astur me." "I thought this was great, immoderate teenage boy's dream, but [now] I deliberation it was wrong. At the clip I wasn't reasoning that." James denied each charge, alleging that the lad had made them up to "look cool".