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A former bodily schooling instructor in the UK appeared in court docket this week as she faces 13 fees for allegedly committing sexual offenses in opposition to three youngsters over a three-year interval, based on reviews.
The BBC reported that 29-year-old Bonwen James, of Chippenham, Wiltshire, appeared within the Salisbury Magistrates’ Court docket on Wednesday, after being accused of getting sexual exercise with a boy and two ladies.
James is charged with 4 counts of sexual exercise with a boy and 6 counts of sexual exercise with ladies below the age of 16.
She additionally faces two counts of sexual communication with a toddler and a single rely of manufacturing an indecent {photograph} of a minor.
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Former PE instructor Bronwen James leaves Salisbury Magistrates’ Court docket, Wiltshire. (Rod Minchin/PA Photographs through Getty Photographs)
Chippenham Police stated in a Fb submit Monday that James taught PE at Hardenhuish Faculty in Shippenham, and Bitterne Park Faculty in Southampton.
The Impartial reported that in the course of the court docket listening to on Wednesday, the chairman of the bench, Stephen Harrison, instructed James her case could be heard earlier than the Salisbury Crown Court docket on Aug. 7.
“By advantage of three of those offenses being indictable solely, which implies they’ll solely be heard within the crown court docket, we might be sending them to the crown court docket,” Harrison reportedly stated. “The opposite 10 offenses are related offenses and due to this fact might be included within the listening to to be heard in entrance of the crown court docket.”
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Former PE instructor Bronwen James, 29, leaves Salisbury Magistrates’ Court docket, Wiltshire, after showing in court docket to face 13 sexual offenses in opposition to three youngsters on Wednesday. (Rod Minchin/PA Photographs through Getty Photographs)
James was granted bail on the situation that she doesn’t have contact with any of the kids within the grievance. She can also be prohibited from having any unsupervised contact with anybody below the age of 16.
When requested if she understood the bail circumstances, James reportedly confirmed that she did.
The publication reported that the listening to was quick, and the one time James spoke was to substantiate issues like her identify, date of beginning, tackle, and her affirmation that she understood the proceedings.
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Former PE instructor Bronwen James, 29, leaves Salisbury Magistrates’ Court docket, Wiltshire, Wednesday. (Rod Minchin/PA Photographs through Getty Photographs)
James is only one of a rising checklist of younger feminine lecturers accused of getting sexual exercise with youngsters.
Final month, a U.S. highschool instructor, 35-year-old Alyssa Perry, was accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old former pupil of hers at her residence in Rockaway Township, New Jersey.
Additionally, final month, an Illinois grand jury indicted highschool instructor Christina Formella, 30, on 20 counts of sexual assault, 20 counts of aggravated prison sexual abuse, six counts of indecent solicitation of a kid and 6 counts of grooming.
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Formella had been accused of sexually assaulting the boy in a classroom throughout a tutoring session earlier than class started at Downers Grove South Excessive Faculty in December 2023.
The sufferer’s mom found the alleged assault when wanting by way of her son’s textual content message thread on his cellphone after which contacted police, prosecutors stated.
Fox Information Digital’s Michael Dorgan contributed to this report.
Greg Wehner is a breaking information reporter for Fox Information Digital.
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