I am writing to let people know what I have been through. The news article about a teacher, I will call him Mr X*, I am not able to name the school.I was doing very well with my education. Then one day I went into the ..............*room where Mr X was sitting at the computer, I walked over to ask him a question and that is when he did what he did to me he touch me in a inappropriate way for a teacher. I was scared and did not tell my mum and dad straight away. When my mum and dad found out they complained to the head teacher and my mum and dad wanted to tell the police, but the head teacher told them not to call the police it was a internal matter and he would sort it out. Everyday I would cause a big fuss about going to school.
I would hit my mum and dad, I was nasty to my sister,brother,nan,grandad and my aunty who all tried to get me to school, but I just wanted to be with my family as I felt safe with them. The school said that I was being naughty, but I was not, my family believed me but the school thought that I was telling lies. My mum and dad were advised by the Education Welfare Officer to attend parenting classes run by the youth offending team, this was very hard for my mum and dad to have to attend these meetings as I was not a offender,I had done nothing wrong. Then one day it got so bad mum and dad were told by the Education Welfare Officer that I must return to school. I could not do it,so I rang the police and they heard shouting, I put the phone down then the police rang back to see if everything was alright, my mum told them that I had hit her and my dad.Then the police were at the front door, my mum and dad did not want me to be arrested for hitting them, so I was given a police caution. I told the policeman that I would return to school,but I could not trust the teachers. I sleepting my parents bedroom on the floor, so that I was near to my parents.
I had terrible nightmares, I still have trouble sleeping now. In the end the Education Welfare Officer, the school the police liaison officer had meetings and decided that I should attend school for a few hours a day, that still did not help me. So I stopped going to school. This kept going on then.One day I got so upset the Education Welfare Officer told my mum and I that the Education Department weretaking my parents to court. I could not see my mum and dad go through going to court, I got very upset and I took a overdose. My mum found me and called my doctor, he said to get a ambulance and he would let the hospital know what the three types of tablets that I had taken. I thought I would forget everything and my mum and dad would be free from court if I was not here. After all this happening I was taken seriously and I had to go to ...............police station and I gave a statement, of what had happened to me with Mr X. My mum was in the next room watching via a video link. I had to explain what had happened and what I was wearing. I was very frightened as I have never been into a police station before. After I gave my statement Mr X was spoken to by the police and he stated that he did not recall the incident ever happening. The police told me that however Mr X had been advised.
It was decided in my best interest not to go to court as I was so upset. The police passed the information onto the DFES for investigation. I had to see therapists to help me but I still did not want to go to school, when I went to my next school, my mum would sit in the car park and I would only go to school for one to two hours and I had a lady that would stay in the room with me. I still could not cope, so in the end my mum and dad decided to take me out of school, as they though it was the best action. I am home educated and I do have lessons with other children in a small group and I am taught by teachers, but my mum stays in the room with me all the time. When Mr X was in the newspapers and it said that he was on porn charges, everything that happened to me came flooding back to me. I am not sleeping and I get very upset.I am still having councelling every week .Mr X has put me though so much.I think tht the two years and eight months is not a very long sentence, I read that he might be released as early as next year.
I will never forget what he did to me. The local paper reported that the Department of Education and Science Teachers Misconduct Team did a inquiry and the results were never made public.What was this inquiry and why was it never made public? Why was Mr X still working with children.The school and Mr X should be made to say sorry to me and my family. I would like to say well done to the people that took control of the chat rooms that was used by paedophiles. Please can everyone sign for Sarah's Law. I hope that readers understand why I have wrote this true life story and done this website.
*For legal reason i have change the name of the teacher and have not put the school name or the class room.
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