A British religion education teacher has been jailed for having sex with one of her own pupils. She pleaded guilty to ten charges of sexual activity with a child under 16.
Madeleine Martin, 39, was actually the boy’s mentor in the school. But she seemed to have other ideas.
Jennifer Birch, prosecuting, told the Manchester Crown Court that Martin started giving the boy gifts, including a mobile phone, and sending him messages on Facebook.
Martin, a mother-of-two, even persuaded the teenager to have her name tattooed in a heart on his arm to remind him of her when they were apart.
She, in return, had a tattoo for him of some Hebrew script on her lower back.
She then drove to a nearby retail park where they had full sex in the car and Martin performed a sex act on the boy, before they were spotted and asked to leave by a security guard.
The following day Martin drove to Daisy Nook country park where she and the boy, whose mother was abroad at the time caring for her terminally ill father, again engaged in sexual activity.
Two days later they had sex again at the empty home of the boy’s uncle.
Martin then changed her identity on Facebook to hide their growing relationship and invited the boy to her own home where they again had sex while her two teenage daughters, aged 14 and 17, were out.