A teacher jailed after sexually touching a teenage girl will face misconduct proceedings after the 15-month relationship.

Aimee Jones struck up the illicit relationship through text messages with the girl before they started to meet up in local parks where they 'held hands and kissed'.

Teesside Crown Court heard how on one occasion the teacher and the teenager ended up topless in her car and hidden only by a blanket.

The 35-year-old Maths teacher admitted four counts of abusing a position of trust by engaging in sexual activity with a girl aged between 13 and 17 being cared for in school premises between January 2020 and March 2021.

She was jailed for eight months at a hearing in November 2021.

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The court heard how Jones, of West Road, Richmond, told the girl that she was bisexual and attracted to her before exchanging mobile phone numbers.

The illegal relationship continued until Jones, who has a young son, admitted to her husband that she was having an affair, but initially said it was with a female teaching assistant.

In a statement read out in court, the victim’s mother said: "I have come to worry that in the future she will come to realise her relationship with Ms Jones was a betrayal of trust rather than the loving, supporting relationship that she perceives it to be and when the enormity of the abuse becomes apparent to her I'm sure she will not only need our support again but also professional help in the form of counselling."

Robert Mochrie, in mitigation, said her client had not groomed the teenager or shared sexually explicit photographs with her but understood that the relationship was inappropriate.

The Teaching Regulation Agency has ordered tribunal proceeding to take place on Friday, November 4.

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