Schoolboy seduced by disgraced teaching assistant reveals they had sex 50 times - and she told him he had made her pregnant
- Two months of abuse by Caroline Berriman left boy 'scarred for life'
- Berriman avoided jail despite admitting sexual activity with a child
- Boy criticises 'atrocious' sentence and says they had regular sex
- Berriman’s two-year-old daughter started calling him ‘dad’, he says
Teaching assistant: Caroline Berriman, 30, from Oldham, avoided a jail sentence last week despite admitting two counts of sexual activity with a child
A schoolboy seduced by a disgraced teaching assistant twice his age revealed last night that they had sex 50 times - and she told him he had made her pregnant.
The boy, aged 15 at the time, said how the two months of abuse by Caroline Berriman, 30, of Oldham, Greater Manchester, left him ‘scarred for life’ - and they had regular, unprotected sex.
Berriman, who taught at the 1,600-pupil Abraham Moss Community School, avoided a jail sentence last week despite admitting two counts of sexual activity with a child.
The boy, who criticised her suspended two-year sentence as ‘atrocious’, said their relationship grew to such an extent that Berriman’s two-year-old daughter started calling him ‘dad’.
They first started meeting after she asked for his phone number on Facebook - before going for drives and watching TV together, he claimed.
The boy told The Sun reporter Paul Keaveny: ‘We would call and text each other all the time and it got more and more into a sort of relationship. Then she started ringing me on weekends, asking if I was going round to hers.
‘It slowly got more serious. It got to a point where her daughter was calling me ‘dad’. I used to say to her “I’m not, I’m your mum’s friend”.’
The boy's relationship with Berriman - who tutored him in maths and English - was exposed when he told his brother, before his mother also found out and the boy contacted ChildLine.
Berriman allegedly asked him to run away with her, saying that if he declined to do so it would 'break my daughter’s heart'.
Manchester Crown Court was told earlier this month that she took part in sex acts with the boy - and was first hauled before the court in July, but the case was adjourned when she fell ill.
As well as the suspended sentence, Berriman faces 250 hours of unpaid community work.
Berriman must also obey a restraining order prohibiting her from contacting the boy – who cannot be named for legal reasons. He did not attend court and has now left the school.
Issued with restraining order: Berriman’s two-year-old daughter had started called the boy 'dad', he claimed
Berriman was unavailable for comment last night. Last year, the Department for Education said two teachers a month were banned from the profession for inappropriate relationships with pupils.
In November, married teaching assistant Helen Turnbull, 35, from Durham, received a suspended sentence after kissing a boy of 16 and sending him seductive messages.
The Mail revealed how she then began a relationship with another former pupil from the same Roman Catholic school.
In 2014, teaching assistant Charlotte Parker, 32, admitted sending thousands of lewd messages to a pupil at a school in Chelmsford, Essex, aged just 14, with whom she later had an affair when he was 16.
Married English teacher Yvonne Preston, 49, of West Yorkshire, was banned from the profession for becoming infatuated with a pupil and showering him with gifts.
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