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UK - Sex text teacher jailed for 12 months

View the article here 02/13/2009 By Paul Stokes A primary school teacher who sent sexually explicit text messages to a 14-year-old boy she befriended through an online game has been jailed for 12 months. Lynn Walls, 42, obtained the juvenile's number through the interactive World of Warcraft site before she began to rely on him emotionally and falsely claimed to him that she had breast cancer. Newcastle Crown Court heard her behaviour had caused lasting damage to the schoolboy became withdrawn, guilty, abusive and had suicidal thoughts. Walls, who is plump, invented a "thin, attractive and blonde" character to chat online with teenager from London who told her his age. Penny Moreland, prosecuting, said Walls sent texts which were "crude and explicit in the extreme", inviting the boy to commit sexual acts and have sex with her...continue to full post

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