33-year-old religious education teacher who had sex with 15-year-old student in her car and in an apartment after drinking alcohol on a night out is banned from class
A teacher who avoided jail after having sex with a 15-year-old student in her car has been disbarred.
Siobhan McLean, 34, met the boy in her role as head of pupil support at a secondary school in Lanarkshire.
She helped his relative enroll in university and also attended study classes that the boy was taking.
But after a relative of the boy was out of school, McLean contacted him on social media and they began exchanging messages. Afterward, the mother of one met him at a university union.
They went out for the evening with someone else, drank alcohol and then went to a flat where she began kissing the teenager and having sex with him.
Siobhan McLean who admitted sexual acts with a 15-year-old pupil. She avoided a prison sentence at Hamilton Sheriff Court but has now been disbarred.
Student support teacher Siobhan McLean appeared in Hamilton District Court (pictured)
A few days later she arranged to see him again and they had sex in the back seat of her BMW in a remote car park at Craignethan Castle, near Blackwood, Lanarkshire.
The boy’s mother later panicked when she heard him say “I love you” during a phone call.
He claimed he was talking to a friend, but his phone was confiscated and contained McLean’s intimate messages, prompting him to call the police.
McLean, from Airdrie, Lanarkshire, appeared at Hamilton Crown Court last October where she admitted having sexual contact with the pupil.
She was sentenced to 300 hours of community service and placed under supervision for three years.
McLean’s teaching registration has now been removed by the General Teaching Council for Scotland (GTCS), meaning she has been banned from the classroom.
McLean was sacked from her teaching position by South Lanarkshire Council after her inappropriate relationship with the boy came to light.
The former religious education teacher was given a 12-month prison sentence and a ban on contact with children other than her own.
The mother of one child has been registered as a sex offender for ten years and is also not allowed to have any contact with the victim or his or her family members for five years.
At a hearing in January, it was reported that the social workers overseeing McLean’s case had given a positive report. No hearings would be necessary unless McLean violated some aspect of the order.
The General Terms and Conditions state: ‘A teacher who has been struck off the register will not be re-registered until he/she has demonstrated to a teaching suitability panel that he/she is fit to teach again.’
