Brit religious education teacher axed after sex with pupil

A British religious education teacher has been banned from teaching after admitting to a sordid sex encounter with a pupil.

Erin La Porte, who taught RE at Princes Risborough School, Buckinghamshire, was struck off indefinitely by the General Teaching Council after a panel heard she had slept with the youngster during her year-long tenure, reports the Daily Mail.

The panel heard that La Porte was employed at the school between September 2006 and September 2007 as a newly-qualified teacher.

In September 2007 she went traveling to Vietnam with fellow teacher Zettie Taylor, when she admitted that she had slept with the youngster that July.

Taylor reported it to Pete Rowe, head of the school, and on August 31, 2007, La Porte confessed to the relationship to the headmaster.

After an investigation carried out by deputy head Wendy Mason, the teacher was suspended, and on September 18 that year La Porte was dismissed for gross misconduct.

At the hearing, held in Birmingham on Wednesday, La Porte was struck off the Teaching Register indefinitely, and told she cannot apply to re-register for at least four years.

The panel warned she might repeat her behavior if she was allowed to continue teaching.