{UAH} Teacher insists 'intimate relationships' with boarding school pupils is NORMAL
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- Journalist Alex Renton speaks about his own sexual abuse by his maths teacher
- He investigates the extent of abuse at boarding schools for ITV's Exposure
- Set of Freedom of Information results outlined the scale of abuse allegations taking place at UK schools in the last six years
- Speaks to paedophile former teacher who said abuse has become 'traditional'
Paedophile teacher insists 'intimate relationships' with young pupils is NORMAL at British boarding schools - as documentary lifts the lid on the shocking scale of sexual abuse
A convicted paedophile teacher who served time in prison for sexual assaults on children in the '70s and '80s children has shockingly insisted that 'relationships' with students were normal and instigated by the youngsters themselves.
The man, referred to as 'James' appears in tonight's ITV Exposure documentary Boarding Schools: The Secret Shame, in which journalist Alex Renton exposes the shocking extent of sexual abuse that has gone on behind closed doors at some of Britain's most elite institutions.
Alex himself was sexually abused as an eight-year-old by his teacher at one of the country's top boarding schools, Ashdowne House in East Sussex - the former preparatory school of Boris Johnson, Viscount Linley and Damian Lewis.
His investigation reveals, via a Freedom of Information request, that since since 2012, 425 people have been accused of carrying out sexual attacks at UK boarding schools.
And in his interview with James, the convicted sex offender told Alex that he believes abuse is still going on today because it's a 'tradition' for teachers to be 'intimate' with pupils, which has become ingrained in the culture over 'generations'.
James said he was aware of unorthodox relationships between the teachers and the boys when he arrived at the unnamed boarding school where he used to work, but refused to address it as sexual abuse.
'At least two of my predecessors had been dismissed for intimacy with the boys shall we say,' he explained. 'And then after about the first year, I learned that the Deputy Headmaster was also intimately involved with a number of boys.'
And he even suggested that one of the boys he had abused 'instigated the actual intimacy'.
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'Good question,' James replied. 'A 12-year-old boy is just as capable of giving consent as any other age.'
Alex Renton's experience of abuse at Ashdown House
In the documentary, the journalist broke down in tears as he recalled, more than 40 years later, a particularly harrowing memory involving his maths and history teacher, Mr Keane, in his first year of the prep school.
'My memory of my sexual encounter with him is only once and it was in the classroom where he usually taught,' he said.
'I remember very clearly the physical feeling of being pressed up against his sort of hairy tweed jacket while he had an arm round me and his other hand was going straight down the front of my corduroy shorts.
'And I remember quite distinctly being given the fruit gum afterwards which I knew already was what you got if you submitted to this.'
In 2013, a group of Alex's former Ashdown House schoolmates went to the police about a different teacher from later in the 70s, Martin Haigh, who'd taught science.
In March last year, he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for indecent assault and gross indecency against four Ashdown House pupils in the 70s.
He told Alex in the documentary that he too had been through the same experience as a child.
'I was sexually abused by not one master but by five when I was at prep school,' he said. 'It never did me any harm. They made my life so much more pleasant in various ways that I accepted it.
'I was getting something from them that I wasn't getting from my parents. Dinky toys, cigarette cards, whole sets. The love and affection which I was deprived of at home.'
He explained that when he went on to apply for a job as a teacher at a boarding school, no background checks were completed which according to James was 'normal'.
SEXUAL ABUSE EXPOSED AT UK BOARDING SCHOOLS
It was decided no further action would be taken, provided Haigh left at the end of term.
Exposure contacted The Cothill Trust, an organisation which now owns Ashdown House. They said:
SHERBORNE PREPARATORY SCHOOL, DORSET
Concerns over his behaviour became so extreme, the Department for Education held a tribunal in 1998.
Its ruling called Lindsay a 'fixated paedophile', and he was barred from teaching.
Just months from retiring anyway, he never faced police charges. Robin Lindsay died in 2016.
Boarding Schools: The Secret Shame – Exposure airs tonight at 10.45pm on ITV
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5408899/ITV-Exposure-programme-investigates-boarding-school-abuse.html#ixzz57dr8Cqb1
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