From the Daily Telegraph...
Female PE teacher admits sex with 15-year-old pupil at all-girls school
Emily Fox, 26, who taught at The Royal Masonic School in Hertfordshire is told she faces possible prison after admitting four counts of sexual activity with a child
A female PE teacher has admitted having sex with a 15-year-old pupil from the all-girls private school where she worked.
Emily Fox, 26, who was a teacher at the £15,000 a year Royal Masonic School in Rickmansworth, Herts, now faces a prison sentence after pleading guilty to four charges of sexual activity with a child while in a position of trust.
St Albans Crown Court heard how the offences took place between August 2012 and August 2013 and involved a 15-year-old schoolgirl.
Judge Michael Baker QC adjourned the hearing for pre-sentence reports but warned Fox that she faced a jail term when she returns to court next month. He also told her she must now sign the sex offenders register.
Fox, who is currently living with a relative in Bath, did not speak during the short hearing and the prosecutor, Sally Mealing-McLeod did not open the case.
Judge Baker granted her conditional bail, telling her she could not visit the Royal Masonic School and could not have any contact with anyone under the age of 16.
The Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire (South Bedfordshire News)
The Royal Masonic School for Girls in Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire (South Bedfordshire News)
Last night her Facebook page had been taken down.
While the victim cannot be identified for legal reasons, the judge overturned an order preventing the defendant and the school from being identified.
He said: “It is clearly in the public interest to identify the school as well as the defendant. It is, to my knowledge, by no means a small school. I don't see how the identification of the school leads to the identification of the child."
The Royal Masonic School for Girls was founded in 1788 in east London to teach the daughters of Freemasons.
It moved to its current site in Rickmansworth in 1934 and now has a mixture of day and boarding pupils.
Among its former pupils are the actresses Amelia Warner and the late Wendy Richard.
No one at the school was available for comment last night
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