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   A pupil's lesbian affair with her PE teacher was exposed when   
   her mother saw a crude email on the family printer.   
      
   Emily Fox, 26, was jailed for 15 months yesterday after she   
   admitted four counts of sexual activity with a child.   
      
   The teacher built up a relationship with the 15-year-old girl   
   after lessons at the Royal Masonic School, a private girls’   
   school in Rickmansworth, Herts. She swapped mobile numbers with   
   the teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and they   
   started messaging each other.   
      
   After a term in November, 2012, the girl told her teacher she   
   “loved her as a friend” and “cared for her”.   
      
   Soon their relationship became “far more intense” and they were   
   sending “hundreds” of messages to each other.   
      
   By June last year, the pair were having sex and exchanging crude   
   messages. The affair was discovered when the girl tried to print   
   an explicit email from Fox on a faulty printer.   
      
   It came out about a week later when her father tried to use the   
   machine. He failed to notice the email but her mother read it   
   and immediately contacted the school, which charges £25,000 a   
   year.   
      
   They confirmed that it was from a member of staff. Hertfordshire   
   Constabulary were informed and Fox went to Hatfield police   
   station voluntarily on Sept 6 last year.   
      
   Neither she nor her teenage lover, now aged 16, gave formal   
   interviews. However, Fox, from Bath, admitted having sex with a   
   child while in a position of trust at St Albans Crown Court on   
   Aug 7.   
      
   Sally Mealing-McLeod, prosecuting, told the court that the pair   
   knew what they were doing was wrong. She said police discovered   
   a “significant” number of messages between the pair as they   
   tried to cover up their illicit affair.   
      
   Ms Mealing-McLeod said: “It was clear the defendant knew that if   
   the relationship became known it would ruin her career.”   
      
   She said Fox, who had been at the school since 2010, had been   
   warned about a close friendship she had previously formed with   
   another pupil.   
      
   The relationship had no sexual element but Fox was given   
   training in how to “set the appropriate boundaries” and avoid   
   “inappropriate relationships with pupils”.   
      
   Dee Connelly, for Fox, said her client had been taking   
   antidepressants and had already attempted suicide by overdose in   
   2011.   
      
   She said she felt lonely and isolated after her parents   
   emigrated to America while she was studying at university in   
   Leeds.   
      
   Ms Connelly added: “Entering pleas shows a degree of bravery, by   
   admitting what she has done.   
      
   “She had been held in high regard and she was respected for her   
   work. Not only is her reputation in tatters but her career is as   
   well.”   
      
   Sentencing her to 15 months in prison, Judge Stephen Gullick   
   said yesterday that she had been a gifted and well-liked teacher.   
      
   “This career will never be available to you again,” he said.   
      
   As Fox was sent down she looked up to her parents in the public   
   gallery, shrugged her shoulders and mouthed: “I love you.”   
      
   Fox was also made subject to a Sexual Offences Prevention Order   
   and she will have to sign the sex offenders’ register for 10   
   years.   
      
   In a statement released after the sentencing, the school said   
   Fox had passed a “robust recruitment check”.   
      
   It said: “When the school became aware of the allegations, it   
   immediately informed the police and suspended Ms Fox in   
   accordance with its policies.   
      
   “Following Ms Fox’s suspension she did not re-enter the school   
   premises and, after an internal investigation into the   
   allegations, was dismissed for gross misconduct.”   
      
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