Jailed, teaching assistant who had sex with 2 pupils

A SEX-CRAZED maths teacher who lured teenage schoolgirls into bed after seducing them on social networking websites has been jailed for almost three years.

Ryan Stewart repeatedly took a 15-year-old-old pupil back to his home for sex after a year-long affair with a 17-year-old student ended.

Both girls were pupils at the secondary school where 25-year-old Stewart taught.

Stewart, who also worked as a part-time barman, picked out the girls in classrooms before using internet chat sites to groom them for his illicit ­liaisons

Prosecutor Fiona Swain said Stewart’s affair with the 17-year-old sixth-former began after he contacted her through My Space and MSN.

He had full sex with her in her parents’ bedroom while they were away and they also had sexual contact in his car and at a shopping complex.

The worried pupil warned him at one stage he could lose his job but Stewart refused to stop seeing her.

When interviewed by police, she said: “The way he talked to me made me feel special. I knew it wasn’t right. I am so mad at myself.”

After his relationship with the older girl ended Stewart moved on to a 15-year-old pupil and had a full sexual relationship with her over six weeks.

He exchanged messages over MSN and by text and they had sex on three occasions, twice in his car and once in his parents’ bedroom.

He also got the girl to perform sex acts on him.

Stewart was suspended by the school in Doncaster, South Yorks, following pupil complaints in December 2007.

Stewart had worked at the school, which cannot be named, since September 2006 after passing a Criminal Records Bureau check.

The teaching assistant told police he got on well with the students because of his relatively young age.

Stewart, of Thorne, Doncaster last month admitted five counts of engaging in sexual activity with the 17-year-old and nine offences of sexual activity with the 15-year-old.

He denied six other offences of engaging in sexual activity with the two other schoolgirls aged 14 and 15 and these were allowed to lie on file.

Appearing  for sentencing yesterday, he was jailed for 33 months and an order was made banning him indefinitely from working with children.

Judge John Reddihough said: “It has to be made clear that people who are teachers and in positions of trust will be punished for these types of offences.”

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