A maths teacher performed a part-striptease for a 15-year-old schoolgirl he dubbed “the full package”.
Kenneth O’Brien, 29, targeted the girl who was in his maths class at a Stirlingshire high school.
The victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was in the gym hall in May 2022, when O’Brien came to find her and told her she had to go to his classroom to complete a maths test she’d “missed”.
When she got there, there was no one else in the room.
Alone with the girl, O’Brien told her he would add her on Snapchat “if he was feeling good”, before marking her test, saying “congratulations, you’ve passed”, and slapping her on the buttocks over her clothing.
The girl went to the toilets and “broke down” but later found O’Brien had added her on the social messaging service.
Prosecutor James Moncrieff said O’Brien told the girl to change his name on Snapchat “for the sake of his career”, and asked if she was going to give him “a leaving present” as he was due to go to another school.
The girl sent him five pictures of herself wearing only underwear and he replied: “You’re the full package, aren’t you?”
He later sent her selfies of himself taken in the school toilets with his hands down his trousers and a video showing him lowering a towel – without exposing his private parts.
O’Brien was arrested at his home in Blantyre, Lanarkshire, two weeks after the girl alerted a friend and her mum.
He pled guilty at Stirling Sheriff Court to engaging in sexual activity with a person under 18 while an adult in a position of trust, contrary to the 2009 Sexual Offences (Scotland) Act.
O’Brien was placed under a social work supervision for two years and a restriction of liberty order, during which he will wear an electronic ankle tag and stay at home between 6pm and 6am for eight months.
He was also placed on the sex offenders register for five years.
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