Friday, October 2, 2026 - A teacher has been jailed after tying a young boy to her bed and blindfolding him before performing a s£x act.
Deborah Franklin, 65, who taught at a preparatory school in
Hertfordshire, was found guilty of eight counts of gross ind£cency against the
boy in the 1990s while he was aged between nine and 12.
Franklin, who was in her 30s and married at the time, became
the boy's private tutor and engaged in "repeated s£xual
activity" with him.
She was sentenced today, October 1, to seven years in prison
at St Albans Crown Court by His Honour Judge Choudhry, who said her offending
involved a “profound abuse of trust”.
Prosecutor Gavin Pottinger told the sentencing hearing that
Franklin “took the opportunities provided by her role and the trust placed in
her to repeatedly abuse (the boy)”.
Aisling Byrnes, mitigating, said Franklin lived an
“exemplary life” and continued to teach in the years after the offences were
committed. She added that her client “maintains her innocence”.
The court was told that during one s£xual encounter in the
garage at the complainant’s house, Franklin took off her clothes and asked “do
you want to touch me?”.
On another occasion, at her own house, Franklin tied him to
her bed, blindfolded him and tickled him, the complainant said.
The accuser also said that during one s£x act, Franklin
called out her husband’s name.
It was said she took her clothes off in front of the boy,
k!ssed him, got him to touch her and performed multiple s£xual acts.
Franklin of Radlett, Hertfordshire, had denied all the
charges and claimed she could not remember tutoring the boy.
The trial heard that after Franklin began tutoring the boy
privately, she would visit his house and invite him to hers. The court heard
that the complainant said that he had “no memory of work ever being done”
during tutoring sessions.
In a statement read out in front of the court, the victim
said: “I have carried the abuse with me throughout my life, it has been a
constant shadow.
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