Mum Distraught Over 13-Year-Old Affair With Teacher

A mum told a jury she was left "distraught" after discovering her 13-year-old son had allegedly been having sex with a married teaching assistant.

Louise Aspinall, 36, is accused of having sex with the boy on three separate occasions while she was working at Swinton High School in Salford.

She denies seven counts of sexual activity with a child.

The boy told a friend he as "happy and proud" to have lost his virginity to Aspinall and claimed she was pregnant with his child, Manchester Crown Court has heard.

Today his mother told the jury she had had "suspicions" something was not right.

She was called into school by the head teacher in December 2013, after rumours began circulating about Mrs Aspinall and the youngster following the alleged offences over a number of weeks, earlier that year in February and March.


The boy's mother said at first her son denied anything had happened but later, after going to police, said he had been having sex with the teaching assistant, who was having marital difficulties at the time. The boy and his mother cannot be identified for legal reasons.

"I was in quite a bit of shock. I knew something was weird but I did not know exactly what," the teenager's mother told the jury.

"It was a shock to find that out, even though I knew something was not right. I was distraught.

"I was confused and I was upset but from the suspicions I had, soon as I heard what was going on I knew, 'Oh God, this was why I felt it was so weird."'

Earlier, prosecutor Andrew MacKintosh told the jury Mrs Aspinall and the complainant had sex on three separate occasions and she also performed sex acts on him.


The secret liaisons included sex in Mrs Aspinall's marital bed at her home in Salford and on St Valentine's Day, it is alleged.

The jury heard that the boy said Mrs Aspinall never forced him to have sex but told him to keep quiet.

Aspinall told police the claims were false and malicious and said she had never kissed or had sex with the complainant and had only been alone with him once.

Under cross-examination from Marsha Myers, defending Aspinall, the boy's mother said her son had undergone counselling and had disciplinary problems.

Miss Myers told the jury a psychological assessment of the youngster stated he had a "lack of emotional self awareness" and a "lack of awareness of the full impact of his behaviour on others."




Culled From Mirror