A female teacher who had sex with a schoolboy after blindfolding him and tying him to a bed faces jail after being convicted of child abuse.
A jury found Deborah Franklin, 65, a former teacher at a Hertfordshire preparatory school, guilty of eight counts of gross indecency with a boy under 14 between 1991 and 1995.
In a video interview, the victim, now in his 40s, said he was nine when he joined Franklin’s class at the independent school where fees are now £18,000 a year, and she became his private tutor.
Franklin’s historical offences were committed when the maximum sentence for each
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