The matron of a Private School has been busted after she allegedly paid a little boy to make him have s*x with her.
Tiffany Carter
Tiffany Carter, the private prep school matron paid a 12-year-old boy for sex with Mars bars, a court heard.
According to Mirror UK, Carter, 46, had
s*x with the pupil when she got into bed with him after “lights out”
while working as a junior matron at the school when she was
17-years-old, the court was told.
The boy, who cannot be named, also went to her room for sex, Lewes Crown Court heard.
The boy’s mother only learned about the
abuse when she got a tearful call from the teen worried that he’d caught
AIDS, jurors were told.
But St Andrew’s Prep School in
Eastbourne, East Sussex, which currently charges £22,000 a year for
boarders, tried to cover it up by not informing police at the time, the
court heard.
The wife of a former house master told the jury the boy alleged he’d had sex with Carter in exchange for chocolate bars.
Pia Abbott said: “The boy’s mother called me and said she’s had him on the phone saying he’s ‘done something bad.’
“Then
she just came out with how he said ‘he’s been having sex with a junior
matron and she’s been paying him in Mars bars and I want it to stop.’
“He said he didn’t want anyone to know because he’d done something bad. I said to him ‘I’ve got your mum on the phone’ and he then burst into tears and said he had done something bad.
“I
asked him what he meant by that and he said ‘after lights out when the
house was quiet I’ve been visiting the junior matron,’ and he said
‘we’ve been having s*xual intercourse.’
“He said he knew what sex was and he was worried he’d got AIDS. It was at the time when AIDS was quite a big issue. When I asked him about it he said she once got into bed with him after lights out.
“He
went off for a couple days and his mother didn’t want to blight his
school career, so treated it a bit like a rite of passage and did not
take it any further.”
The boy’s mother told the court she’d
received a late night phone call from her son talking about an AIDS
advert he’d seen on telly.
She said: “He didn’t say anything about sex in that phone call. I knew there was a girl who he said wouldn’t leave him alone, but I had no idea it was a matron at that time.
“The
conversation led me to suspect there had been more than kissing because
he kept mentioning an advert about AIDS on TV. And I thought ‘why would
he be talking about that?’
“It was a very garbled phone call and he was crying. I went down to see him.”
But she said she was pressured by the
school, which educates children aged three to 13, into not taking the
matter to the police.
She added: “We talked about taking him home, but the school was advising that we shouldn’t.
“The conversation suggested he would be better kept in the normal environment. He wanted to stay in school as well, but it was my instinct as a mother to go and pick him up.
“I didn’t get the name of the woman. The school wanted to keep it confidential. They
said it was best for it not to be expanded any further or legal
proceedings taken because my son was about to go to college.”
She said: “My husband wanted to go to the police at the time. But because she had left their school I just wanted to make sure she no longer worked with children again.
“I was very upset and emotional at that time. I don’t know how long the abuse went on, but it happened nearly a year before he told me.
“He said he went up to watch TV in the matron’s room and that seemed to me to be wrong. I didn’t understand why he was in her room. This was such a long time ago. My husband and I always wanted closure for my son.”
She added: “The normal mother’s reaction is to try and do everything you can, but I think it could have been handled differently.”
The court heard the victim began a civil law suit against the school in 2015.
The boy’s mother added: “The civil action is against St Andrew’s. I’m not a part of that.”
Carter, who at the time of the alleged
offences was known as Tiffany Poole, was arrested in October 2014 after a
solicitor acting for the victim called Sussex Police.
A statement made by her to detectives when she was arrested was read to the court.
She said: “I do remember the boy. He had a crush on me. He used to give me cuddly toys. The other matrons used to tell me I had to be firmer with the boys. I never invited any boys into my room.
“My job was to make sure the boys washed and cleaned their teeth in the morning and evenings. I was never on my own with any of the boys. I don’t know why any of these allegations have been made.
“I was not sexually active until I was with my first boyfriend at the age of 19.”
DC Phil Cracknell, of Sussex Police, said Carter looked “shocked” when he went to arrest her at her home.
Carter, of Eastbourne, denies three
counts of gross indecency with a child and two charges of indecent
assault of a boy aged under 14 between September 1986 and April 1987.
The trial continues.
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