Lesbian Teacher is Jailed for Having Sexual Affair With Student, 14, After She Got Obsessed With Her

Rachel Speed, 41, who had taught science at Fairview High School in Cwmbran, South Wales, for 15 years started a sexual relationship after kissing the girl in a school stationery cupboard when she was just 14.

Speed of Hengoed in the Rhymney Valley, South Wales would pick up the girl in her car and drive her to her house where they had ‘sleepovers’ several times a week.

Prosecutor Christopher Rees told her: ‘You abused her trust while she was 14. You did not want her parents to know because then they would know your sordid little secret. You were clearly obsessed with her - even when she went to university."

Sentencing Speed to two years jail, Judge Morgan told her: "You were in a position of trust in relation to the girl, you were her teacher. Teachers are not allowed to have sex with their pupils. Everybody knows that.

"You were a mature person while she was an impressionable and vulnerable child who was unpopular at school. She was bound to respond to the attentions of a popular teacher."

The court heard the girl was bullied at school and Speed started texting the girl and sending her online messages before inviting her for a sleepover. She carried on the relationship until the girl went to university.

The pair would share a bed, shower together and perform ‘sex acts’ on each other several times a week.

The relationship was exposed when the girl's mother found an 'inappropriate' letter from Speed.
The parents made Speed sign a contract in exchange for not going to the school or the police. She agreed she would end the relationship until the girl was 21 or after she finished full-time education - but she broke her promise.

Speed gave the girl an engagement ring and a car when she went to university. But the court heard how the pupil dumped her teacher by text after she met someone new.

She then reported Speed, who was accused of indecent assault and sexual activity while in a position of trust.

A spokesman for Torfaen Council said: "We apologise for the failure to protect this pupil during her time at the school."

The teacher was jailed for two years yesterday for having a 'years-long' secret lesbian relationship with the pupil.

Fairview High School