Kandice Barber, a 35-year-old teacher at a UK high school and mother of three, has been sentenced by the British justice to six years and two months in prison for having sex and sending ‘nudes’, nude photos, to a student his only 15 years old.
Kandice Barber, teacher, married and 35 years old, was sentenced Friday to six years and two months in prison after being found guilty of have sex with a 15-year-old student of his and send him “very risqué” photos for Snapchat. In addition to the jail sentence, she has been sentenced to disqualification from working with children and vulnerable adults and is subject to a lifelong sexual harm prevention order.
The court found that Barber added the teenager in Snapchat at a school soccer awards gala in September 2018 and started texting her. Within a week, texting turned sexual. After this harassment, Barber He picked up the teenager in his car, a 4×4, to take him to an isolated place where he had sex with him.
The teacher was not satisfied with this and continued to send sordid text messages to the boy, even while teaching him in class. Barber asked his student to delete all the messages he had sent him, but nevertheless he kept the screenshots of some conversations which led the teacher to threaten to the boy so that he did not denounce him arriving even to falsely accuse him of rape.
In a very shocking statement, the victim explained that due to the psychological consequences that this terrible experience produced, his grades dropped a lot. The young man narrated how because of this incident he has suffered from stress and anxiety since he has had to go through two trials and feels very concerned about the suffering suffered by his family and friends who witnessed the event.
As a result of the worst grades, he had to drop out of the school he attended and go to a sixth grade university, separating from his friends. Since then, his family moved to another country in the hope of starting over, but it was not possible to forget as he had to inform his new school of the retrial.
During the trial, Judge Dhaliwal criticized: “It does not matter if you are a woman and the victim is a man. He sent pictures, including a photo of himself topless and a video of him masturbating. All of these events involve significant planning. “
The judge continued: “I have no doubt that you fell into a serious breach of trust. He took advantage of a child in his care and groomed him for his own sexual gratification.“The magistrate also criticized the teacher’s threats to make the boy comply with his wishes to remain silent:” In my opinion this is beyond contempt “ expressed in his statements.
Statements from their partners
Her husband Daniel defended his wife in court, explaining to the jury that their marriage is as “strong” as ever. And he stated that he was not affected by his wife’s conviction for sending X-rated photographs.
Image of Barber and his current partner.
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On the other hand, her ex-boyfriend described her as “a wonderful girl” and a “great mother” but added that their relationship ended because of her insatiable desire to have sex, saying, “When it came to sex, she was incredibly playful and that’s what got her into all this trouble.” He explained that their relationship was dominated by his “huge sex drive” having sex up to six times a day, even in unusual places. “Everyone has their personal needs but his was too excessive“concluded the defendant’s ex-partner.
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