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'Willy-nilly bed-hopping' at school for deaf pupils - mirror.co.uk
UNDERAGE sex between boarders as young as 12 was commonplace at a top grammar school for the deaf, a judge revealed yesterday.
The £35,000-a-year school allowed a “promiscuous culture” and let down its pupils, Judge Richard Parkes QC said.
One parent, who asked not to be named, said bed-hopping was rife. She claimed: “A culture exists of pupils hopping in and out of bed with each other, willy nilly. There is freedom of movement at all hours of the day and night, unsupervised.
“This has been going on for a very long time. I have spoken to pupils from 20 years ago who say it was the same back then.”
Former pupil Aeron Mazija, 20, was yesterday jailed for three years for having sex with 12 and 13-year-old girls at the Mary Hare Grammar School for the Deaf when he was 18. Judge Parkes told him, via a signer: “All of the victims and yourself were at a school where consensual sexual *relationships between underage pupils was commonplace. Sexual relationships were the norm.
“You had no appreciation or awareness of the implications of having underage sex. Relationships between pupils of different ages was not discouraged at the school and there were many examples of underage sex. It is fair to say that pupils were rather promiscuous. Underage sex was not that seriously treated at the school.” The judge was told yesterday that Mazija had once been caught having sex with a 16-year-old girl on the stage in the school hall when he was just 14.
Teachers found them but no action was taken, Reading crown court was told.
Mazija, of Woking, Surrey, admitted having sex with a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl in 2008 and 2009.
The school in Newbury, Berks, educates 230 pupils aged from five to 19. Its principal Tony Shaw yesterday denied underage sexual relationships were rife.
He said: “All the pupils who are 16 or below live in single-sex accommodation which is separate and distant from each other. The main thing that was said by the judge was that relationships were commonplace and we were naive if we thought they weren’t sexual.
“We reject that. We don’t think we have a greater or lower number of relationships than any other place.”
UNDERAGE sex between boarders as young as 12 was commonplace at a top grammar school for the deaf, a judge revealed yesterday.
The £35,000-a-year school allowed a “promiscuous culture” and let down its pupils, Judge Richard Parkes QC said.
One parent, who asked not to be named, said bed-hopping was rife. She claimed: “A culture exists of pupils hopping in and out of bed with each other, willy nilly. There is freedom of movement at all hours of the day and night, unsupervised.
“This has been going on for a very long time. I have spoken to pupils from 20 years ago who say it was the same back then.”
Former pupil Aeron Mazija, 20, was yesterday jailed for three years for having sex with 12 and 13-year-old girls at the Mary Hare Grammar School for the Deaf when he was 18. Judge Parkes told him, via a signer: “All of the victims and yourself were at a school where consensual sexual *relationships between underage pupils was commonplace. Sexual relationships were the norm.
“You had no appreciation or awareness of the implications of having underage sex. Relationships between pupils of different ages was not discouraged at the school and there were many examples of underage sex. It is fair to say that pupils were rather promiscuous. Underage sex was not that seriously treated at the school.” The judge was told yesterday that Mazija had once been caught having sex with a 16-year-old girl on the stage in the school hall when he was just 14.
Teachers found them but no action was taken, Reading crown court was told.
Mazija, of Woking, Surrey, admitted having sex with a 12-year-old girl and a 13-year-old girl in 2008 and 2009.
The school in Newbury, Berks, educates 230 pupils aged from five to 19. Its principal Tony Shaw yesterday denied underage sexual relationships were rife.
He said: “All the pupils who are 16 or below live in single-sex accommodation which is separate and distant from each other. The main thing that was said by the judge was that relationships were commonplace and we were naive if we thought they weren’t sexual.
“We reject that. We don’t think we have a greater or lower number of relationships than any other place.”
