August 2012 Teacher jailed for sex assaults on young pupil A former history teacher and Christian group leader has been jailed for three years for a string of sex attacks on a pupil. Philip Hadley’s victim was aged between 12 and 14 when he indecently assaulted her. The twice-divorced, father-of-one carried out the assaults during the early 1990s when he was teaching at a school in Bodmin. At an earlier court hearing Hadley, 49, of Roslyn Close, St Austell, pleaded guilty to three counts of indecent assault against the girl, who had also attended some of the Christian group meetings he ran. Truro Crown Court heard his victim came forward in 2010 after she got a job working with children and feared Hadley might one day repeat his actions. Philip Lee, prosecuting, said the girl was aged 11 when she first encountered Hadley. He said: “It’s apparent from the evidence she had a crush on him. It’s also apparent he gave her inappropriate attention. Inappropriate in nature and degree. “He was inappropriate with other pupils in a similar way.” Chris Spencer, defending, said his client had lost his job, his second marriage and since the offences had not committed any similar offences. Judge Graham Cottle said: “She developed a schoolgirl crush on you. You recognised that and gave her completely inappropriate attention and began to groom her. “You thought you had got away with it for some years but now it has caught up with you and you must accept your punishment.” He has already signed the Sex Offenders’ Register and was yesterday banned from working with children.