A Nuthall paedophile teacher, Craig Hill, has been incarcerated after he “groomed” and sexually attacked a student in a classroom cupboard.
The court was informed that Craig Hill “exploited” a student who harboured a “teenage crush” on him during his tenure as a mathematics teacher at Hall Park Academy in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire.
The 46-year-old received a 32-month prison sentence at Nottingham Crown Court on Friday after the youngster reported him to the police several years later.
He admitted guilt to two charges of sexual activity with a minor and one charge of inducing a minor to participate in sexual activity on the anticipated first day of his trial in August.
Craig Hill received his sentence at Nottingham Crown Court.
Prosecution barrister Dawn Pritchard said Hill, of Mornington Crescent in Nuthall, Nottinghamshire, touched the girl under the table and in a school cupboard at the back of a classroom on a “number of occasions”.
She continued that the victim had previously said that she was “infatuated” with him and sexually touched him back because she “wanted to impress him”.
Ms Pritchard added that on one occasion Craig Hill unbuttoned his shirt in the cupboard and the girl was “shocked by how hairy his chest was”.
In a statement read to the court by Ms Pritchard, the victim wrote that the offences have impacted “every aspect” of her life.
“I feel like I have lost so much precious time and my childhood,” she said, “I can’t reminisce about school as every memory is tainted for me – I was a child and I was groomed by this man.
“I have to keep reminding myself I was a child. My only responsibility was to be a child and nothing I could have done would have changed the outcome.”
“I’m worried and wary about bumping into him and will always feel this way,” she added.
Judge Stuart Rafferty KC, sentencing, said: “You were in a position of responsibility to that girl. It probably became clear to you very early on that she had some feeling for you – some teenage crush – sometimes pupils form for those who are teaching them.
“All you had to do was kindly but firmly show her the door. The fact that you didn’t speaks volumes. It is perfectly clear that you did not discourage her in what she felt – to the contrary you exploited it.
“She, the infatuated child that she was with no prior sexual experience, could not begin to understand the ramifications of what was going on and the effect.
“There is a continuing impact on that child as she still is – still the child trapped within the adult body because of what happened with you.
“I believe now you are remorseful but whether that is remorse for others or yourself is less easy to determine.”
Craig Hill stood in the dock wearing a navy suit and did not react as the sentence was read.
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