London: A 41-year-old woman school teacher in Britain has been banned from teaching for two years after she sent over 600 text messages to a pupil, where she told him she will love him forever and that she wanted to give him a hug and a kiss. Teresa McKenzie, a mother of two, was found guilty by a professional panel of unacceptable conduct with the then 16-year-old student, The Sun reported. She had earlier been cleared by a jury in 2010 of having sex with a pupil.
The Teaching Agency panel heard McKenzie developed an "inappropriately close relationship" with a troubled boy at a special school in Cheshire. She sent him 644 text messages, four emails and two letters, one of which began "To my gorgeous Pirate", after a school trip to see the film "Pirates of the Caribbean". "I will love you for ever and ever and ever", she told him, adding that she wanted to give him "a big hug and kiss".
The pupil was 16 when McKenzie became his key worker in 2007 at the residential school. McKenzie said "professional vanity" made her do too much to try to help him. The daily said it was not alleged by the panel that she had any sexual relationship with the boy. But the panel said she failed to observe professional boundaries and abused her position of trust.
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