Teacher raped at school by student

A British teacher who was raped by a 15-year-old student has sued the governing body of the school for putting her in danger.

The 32-year-old teacher has reportedly accepted a "generous settlement" after she accused Westminster City School of failing to warn her about the boy, who had previously sexually assaulted a cleaner, the Daily Mail reports.

"Somebody else put me in the way of a rapist. Everybody has the right, not only to not be raped, but to make decisions about their own safety," she said in court yesterday.

"If they had warned me, I wouldn't have been there in the classroom."

The teacher was attacked by student Dwayne Best at the school in September 2004 as she stayed back after classes to mark assessments.

She described the brutal attack, which occurred less than a week after starting the job, as "truly horrifying".

Her allegations of negligence against the school were stemmed from the failure to warn her of the student's pattern of behaviour after the previous assault despite an "appalling" documented history in and out of school.

"If they had done right by me, I wouldn't have been there, and if they had done right by him, he was entitled to be properly managed, he wouldn't have been there," the teacher said.

She has not returned to teaching since the ordeal and described being raped and losing her job as "like being bereaved".

Dwayne was convicted and is serving a life sentence.

24 Jun 2009

Another classic example of:

no one cares about you, especially the 'system'.