READ: Teacher Resigns For Allegedly Seducing 16-Year Old On Facebook and Having Sex With Him

Clare Horton

A female teacher has been struck off for allegedly having sex with a teenage pupil she seduced on Facebook.

Clare Horton, of Newport, south Wales, messaged the 16-year-old boy on the social networking site before sending him racy pictures of herself.

The 33-year-old then met the boy while he was on study leave for his GCSEs and the pair reportedly had sex on her sofa.

The boy- known as Pupil A – later told police he had sex with Mrs Horton but said he didn’t want to press charges.

However, the case was brought before a disciplinary panel at the General Teaching Council of Wales

Martin Jones, presenting officer for the panel, said: ‘He was in Facebook contact with Mrs Horton, then a teacher employed at the school.

‘That led to them meeting up at the end of the school year – he came to her home and slept there.

‘Mrs Horton’s behaviour clearly amounted to a significant breach in the professional boundary between her and pupil A. This constitutes misconduct.’

The mother-of-two, who worked at Fitzalan High School in Cardiff, was going through a divorce at the time of the incident.

She denied sex with the boy but rumours spread throughout the school soon after. Mrs Horton claimed: ‘He slept at my house and so did I. I slept alongside him. We did not have sexual intercourse.’

However, she resigned shortly afterwards.

-Metro UK