Teacher who sent underwear photos and 'miss me' notes to teenage student banned for life

A teacher has been banned from teaching for life and sentenced after sending nudes to a teenage student. Georgia Lowe was convicted of engaging in sexual communication with a child at Stafford Crown Court after she sent explicit pictures in her underwear and inappropriate messages well into the night to a 15-year-old.

Ms Lowe had only started teaching at the Staffordshire school a month before messages were found by the pupil's mother, who reported it to the school in October 2021. In an immediate "gross breach of trust", the sex offender sent phrases such as "make me proud", "try not to miss me too much", and "you've already made my day" to the pupil, with some exchanges lasting until 10pm at night.

In his sentencing remarks, the judge found that she committed a "gross breach of trust" and had "used the environment in which you were working with him [Pupil A] to pursue what was evidently your sexual interest in him", Stoke On Trent Live reports.

On February 23, 2024, she was convicted of engaging in sexual communication with a child, and handed a 14-month suspended prison sentence. She was required to complete up to 20 days of rehabilitation and 120 hours of unpaid work.

The judge also imposed a restraining order on Ms Lowe, preventing her from contacting the student for five years, and she was placed on the Sex Offenders Register for ten years.

A professional conduct panel investigation found her actions were "entirely intentional" and led to her being banned from teaching indefinitely at any school, sixth form college, relevant youth accommodation, or children's home in England.

The report said that not only did she fail to adhere to the normal safeguarding duties, but she continued her actions even after an investigation had commenced.

It said: "This demonstrated that Ms Lowe's conduct was entirely intentional. This went far beyond an inadvertent overstepping of professional boundaries."

It added: "There was no evidence of any positive contribution made to the teaching profession in Ms Lowe's very short career and therefore no public interest in retaining her in the profession since her behaviour fundamentally breached the standard of conduct expected of a teacher, and she abused her position of trust."