Female ballet teacher 'abducted teenage pupil and had sex with him'

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She is accused of committing the offences between March and June last year and is also charged with abducting the teenage pupil from Blackpool on one occasion in May.

Home Office circular 005 / 2007

Amendments to Schedules 3 and 5 to the Sexual Offences Act 2003

1. The Sexual Offences Act 2003, which came into force on 1 May 2004, considerably amended the notification requirements placed on those who are convicted of certain sex offences.

2. By virtue of the Sexual Offences Act 2003 (Amendment of Schedules 3 and 5) Order 2007, a number of changes have been made to the lists of offences in both Schedules 3 and 5 to the 2003 Act. The purpose of this Circular is to alert practitioners to those changes.

3. A person convicted or cautioned or made subject to a finding for an offence listed in Schedule 3 becomes subject to the notification requirements of Part 2 of the Act. A Schedule 3 offence may also lead to a person becoming subject to a foreign travel order. An offence under Schedule 3 or 5 may lead to a person becoming subject to a sexual offences prevention order (SOPO), which in turn would require that person to be subject to the register for the duration of that order.

Offences being added to schedule 5

7. The offences being added to schedule 5 (of the Sexual Offences Act 2003) are:

* Outraging public decency – this is a common law offence
* Theft (s.1 of the Theft Act 1968)
* Burglary with intent to steal (s.9 of Theft Act 1968)
*Child abduction (by a parent or a stranger) (sections 1 and 2 of the Child Abduction Act 1984)
* Harassment (s.2 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997)
* Prohibition on sending certain articles by post (Sections 85(3) and (4) of the Postal Services Act 2000)
* Improper use of public electronic communications network (s.127(1) of the Communications Act 2003)

8. Similar offences are added to Schedule 5 in respect of Northern Ireland, although Northern Ireland is also adding the offence of

* Riotous, disorderly and indecent behaviour (s.9 of the Criminal Justice (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern Ireland) 1968).

Date of commencement

9. These changes will come into effect on 19 February 2007.

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/about-us/publications/home-office-circulars/circulars-2007/005-2007/index.html

Child Abduction Act 1984

2. Offence of abduction of child by other persons.

— (1) [F5 Subject to subsection (3) below, a person, other than one mentioned in subsection (2) below.] commits an offence if, without lawful authority or reasonable excuse, he takes or detains a child under the age of sixteen—

(a) so as to remove him from the lawful control of any person having lawful control of the child; or

(b) so as to keep him out of the lawful control of any person entitled to lawful control of the child.

http://www.opsi.gov.uk/RevisedStatutes/Acts/ukpga/1984/cukpga_19840037_en_1#pt1-l1g2

Ballet teacher faces sex abuse trial

27 April 2010

A TOP ballet teacher accused of having sex with one of her boy pupils has had her case committed to crown court. Dundee-born, Sarah Pirie, is said to have abducted the boy and sexually molested him in hotels in Manchester.

The 27-year-old ballet teacher and actress, formerly of St Annes, now living in Rue Gaaschtbierg, Mamer, Luxembourg, faces five charges of intentionally sexually touching the boy.

Pirie, formerly a teacher at a dance school on the Fylde coast, is alleged to have taken the teenager to hotels in the city to commit the offences between March and June last year.

She is also charged with abducting the teenage pupil from Blackpool on May 22 last year.

Trevor Colebourne, defending, confirmed Pirie had previously pleaded not guilty to all the offences.

She spoke only to confirm her name, age and address during the five-minute hearing.

Pirie was committed on bail to appear at Preston Crown Court by Blackpool magistrates.

The defendant was bailed on the condition she did not contact the complainant.

http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnews/Ballet-teacher-faces-sex-abuse.6255019.jp