Posh boarding school teacher performed sex acts on student he groomed on Snapchat

A teacher has been struck off after it emerged that he had been carrying on an inappropriate relationship with a 16-year-old student. The man, now legally known as Taurapa but previously known as Connor Taurapa Matthews, was a specialist Māori teacher at the Rangi Ruru Girls’ School – an exclusive girls’ boarding school in Christchurch, New Zealand. The girl, Helena Dray, chose to waive her right to anonymity in a Teachers Disciplinary Tribunal. READ MORE: Teacher, 31, who had secret car sex sessions with ‘vulnerable’ student, 16, avoids jail The tribunal heard that Taurapa and Dray had been in a Māori-language group chat, but that he started messaging her privately. The messages included love poems as well as frank questions about sex. Eventually this led to him inviting her to watch a movie with her, where Dray said Taurapa “kissed me and felt me up, too”. Taurapa repeatedly pestered a second girl to ‘go on dates’ with him (Image: Facebook) The relationship grew more intense, Dray told the tribunal, and she admitted performing oral sex on Taurapa at the school. She said that she had also exchanged numerous nude photos with him – on, she said, “multiple occasions, too many
Read More