A TEACHER who sexually assaulted two boys in his class the day he arrived at the school has avoided a jail term after a sheriff said the only way the court could keep the public safe was not to send him to jail.
A TEACHER who sexually assaulted two boys in his class the day he arrived at the school has avoided a jail term after a sheriff said the only way the court could keep the public safe was not to send him to jail.
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Stephen Tait, 29, touched the six and seven-year-old boys as he was marking their jotters at their school in Fife, which cannot be named for legal reasons.
Dunfermline Sheriff Court heard the supply teacher claim that he touched the boys by "accident" but he was found guilty of sexually assaulting both pupils. It emerged in a background report read by Sheriff Colin McClory that Tait is to stand trial on child pornography allegations later this year.
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