Teacher who caught tutor husband having sex with 17-year-old student but failed to report him will not lose teaching license
A teacher who failed to report her teacher husband despite knowing that he was having an affair with a 17-year-old student he was privately tutoring will not be losing her teaching license.
MEAWW previously reported that Jane Schalch had learned of her husband Bryan Schalch's affair with the victim in November 2015 after she arrived at their $598,000 marital home in Moreton Morrell, Warwickshire, and caught him with the teen in her underwear.
She learned that he had been having an affair with the girl since September that year and that they had had sex three times, but decided to not report him to the superiors at the prestigious independent boarding school where they both taught.
Bryan's affair would ultimately continue until March 2016, when it came to the attention of the authorities after a friend of the teen got wind of it and reported it.
He was subsequently charged with three counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust and branded as "immoral and shabby" by a judge.
He was eventually cleared of wrongdoing because the girl was a pupil at another school, but was barred from working with children in the future.
A similar fate seemed to await Jane, who had been dismissed for gross misconduct in March 2018, and admitted to the Teaching Regulation Agency that she placed the victim at risk by not reporting her husband.
This past week, the agency, which had previously admonished her for failing to adhere to her duty of safeguarding the teen, found her guilty of unacceptable professional conduct and conduct capable of bringing the teaching profession into disrepute, according to the Sun.
However, they spared her a classroom ban, ruling that she was the victim of "appalling circumstances," and that she had been placed in a "compromising position by the actions of her husband." The panel ultimately decided that the publication of its findings was punishment enough.
"The panel considered that Mrs. Schalch had demonstrated insight and remorse for failing to report her husband’s affair with Pupil A," said panel chairman Ian Carter.
"During her oral testimony, the panel questioned Mrs. Schalch as to what she would do if she were to discover that her husband was having an affair with another pupil or working with children in any context, to which Mrs. Schalch replied: 'I would report it immediately, even if it ended my marriage.' The panel considered this testimony to be compelling."