A British high school teacher has been slammed with a 21-month jail term for grooming a 16-year-old pupil before taking her virginity in what has been described as an “abuse of trust”.
Bradford Crown Court heard that after hearing that the girl liked him, Jonathan Firth (33) sent her messages via social media sites Twitter and Snapchat, while instructing her to keep their relationship a
“secret”.
He then started taking her to cafes, sending her naked pictures of himself, and inviting her to his parents’ house – where the pair eventually had sex. He was jailed for 21 months after admitting three counts of sexual activity with a child and one count of causing a child to engage in sexual activity as a person in a position of trust, between October and November last year