Teacher Gets Jail for Lesbian Tryst with Student

(London, England) A 26-year-old music teacher at a girls school, Helen Goddard, was sentenced today in Southwark Crown Court to 15 months in jail for engaging in a five-month lesbian relationship with a 15-year-old girl.

Goddard admitted to six counts of sexual activity with the girl between February and July 2009.

Looking inexplicably cocky in her photo (right), Goddard claimed she had been "pressurised" into the relationship which began with coffee after classes and progressed to months of intimacy. They even marched together in a gay pride parade during a weekend in Paris.

Their illict meetings remained a secret until the £13,000-a-year top London public school for girls, which cannot be named for legal reasons, received an anonymous tip-off and care workers immediately contacted the police.

When officers raided the teacher's housing estate maisonette in Greenwich they found the teenager with the 26-year-old and seized various sex toys including vibrators and "fluffy handcuffs".

It's presumed that the girl willingly offered her fluffy for handcuffing since she lied to her parents when she visited Goddard by telling them that she was staying "over at friends' houses."

Judge Anthony Pitts ordered Goddard to register as a sex offender for 10 years in addition to the jail time. Goddard is also banned from working with children for life.