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06/06/2013
RE Teacher Fired Over Child Abuse Images Ruled Fit To Teach Again
A professional conduct panel has ruled a teacher sacked for possession of child pornography should be allowed to return to work.
36-year-old Geoffrey Bettley, who taught religious education at St Mary's Catholic School in Menston, West Yorkshire, was suspended in 2010 when almost 200 child abuse images were found on his computer.
Bettley was cautioned by police and put on the sex offenders register for two years, he was also dismissed by the school.
A ruling by the National College of Teaching and Leadership has said that Mr Bettley does not, "represent a risk to children or young people", adding that he did not show a "deep-seated attitude which leads to harmful behaviour".
The panel said that the images found by police were "not at the most serious end" of the Copine scale – a one to ten scale used to grade the severity of child abuse images.
(MH/CD)
36-year-old Geoffrey Bettley, who taught religious education at St Mary's Catholic School in Menston, West Yorkshire, was suspended in 2010 when almost 200 child abuse images were found on his computer.
Bettley was cautioned by police and put on the sex offenders register for two years, he was also dismissed by the school.
A ruling by the National College of Teaching and Leadership has said that Mr Bettley does not, "represent a risk to children or young people", adding that he did not show a "deep-seated attitude which leads to harmful behaviour".
The panel said that the images found by police were "not at the most serious end" of the Copine scale – a one to ten scale used to grade the severity of child abuse images.
(MH/CD)
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