Oct 2006 Why was teacher-turned-rapist kept off national sex blacklist? Education chiefs have refused to reveal why they failed to ban a teacher who was blacklisted in Essex and jailed six years later for a string of child sex attacks. Whitehall bosses, quizzed via a Freedom of Information request, claimed disclosing the information would breach the rights of convicted paedophile Steven Taylor, sent to prison in December for eight years for child sex offences, including the rape of an 11-year-old girl. Paedophile Steven Taylor, 42, spent two years satisfying his evil lust with the pupil and even took her abroad to let fellow perverts photograph her. The brute also took up to 10,000 vile pictures of his own — and flogged them on the internet. He was arrested after trying to lure a second schoolgirl into sex. The monster, of Kingswinford, West Midlands, could have been caged for life after admitting a catalogue of child-sex charges. Taylor had been placed on List 98, Essex’s informal register of people unsafe to work with children, owing to fears over his behaviour at a school in Colchester in 1998, but the Department for Education and Skills decided not to put him on the national blacklist – which meant he was able to get work as a supply teacher at primary schools in the Wolverhampton area. Six years later he was convicted at Wolverhampton Crown Court of a catalogue of sexual offences against children.