School teacher jailed for molesting two schoolboys given teaching ban

A teacher who was jailed after she molested two schoolboys has been struck off.

Carol Ann White, 41, targeted the youngsters, then aged 11 and 12, while employed in two primary schools in North Lanarkshire.

A police investigation was launched when it was discovered she had been texting a 12-year-old boy during the first Covid-19 lockdown.

Phones belonging to the pair were analysed and a total of 1,185 messages had been exchanged over a three-week period.

White asked the boy to touch himself, sent revealing photos of herself and sent one photo captioned 'C********* of the year goes to Covid-19'.

The probe led police to an 11-year-old boy who said White had kissed him on the lips in a school store cupboard.

White, of Uddingston, Lanarkshire, was convicted of engaging in sexual activity with the boys spanning between August 2018 and May 2020.

She was jailed for three years at Airdrie Sheriff Court.

She had also admitted possessing eight indecent images of her 12-year-old victim.

Shamed mum-of-two White has now had her registration to teach removed by education watchdog the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS).

A 'removal' order has been marked against her registration on the official GTCS website which means she has been banned from the classroom and will not be able to teach again unless she proves she is fit to do so.

White was placed on the sex offenders' register indefinitely and ordered to be kept on licence for 18 months following her release from prison after a sheriff ruled she posed a risk to the public.

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Sheriff Morag Shankland told her: 'You have been convicted of a serious breach of trust and you have shown absolutely no remorse for these actions.'

Last year it emerged a headteacher at one of the schools White had worked in had failed to act on staff concerns over the predator.

Angela Paterson ignored 'serious allegations' about the relationship between White and the boy.

Paterson admitted a string of errors in her handling of allegations between 2015 and 2019 and was struck off.

She failed to read written concerns about White from colleagues which included use of the word 'grooming' and also provided White with an 'excellent' reference despite her new school being attended by 'vulnerable' youngsters.

The GTCS website states: 'A removal order prohibits a teacher from making a registration application for a specified period - the maximum period is two years.

'A teacher who has been removed from the register will only be granted registration again where they demonstrate to a fitness to teach panel that they are now fit to teach.'