Music teacher Helen Goddard jailed for lesbian affair with pupil

The Times (London) ^ | September 21, 2009 | Times On Line Story Monkey

[Owl_Eagle]

A public school mistress who was “pressured” into a lesbian affair by a 15-year-old pupil will be allowed to continue see the girl after she is released from a 15-month jail term.

Helen Goddard - a music teacher nicknamed “the jazz lady” by pupils - befriended the teenager over coffee after lessons and their relationship eventually became sexual.

Goddard wept as she was jailed today at London’s Southwark Crown Court and placed on the sex offenders' register.

But Judge Anthony Pitts decided not to grant a prosecution request that she be banned from seeing the teenager for five years.

[SNIP]

“She describes the pair having feelings for one another, and that that was not planned or expected,” said counsel.

“This developed into them flirting with each other and sending text messages to each other. They went for a walk one day and she describes kissing Ms Goddard on the lips, which Ms Goddard responded to.”

The youngster also spoke of lying to her parents to stay at the trumpet teacher’s home where they shared a bed and kissed.

Further lies and more overnight stays followed as the relationship developed.

Ms Naughton said the pair also had “sexual relations” at her parents’ home.

In June, having declared they “loved each other” the girl told her parents she was going to spend a weekend with a relative in France, the girl and her teacher caught a plane to Paris.

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[Owl_Eagle]

[Owl_Eagle]

But when I wrote that story where almost the exact same thing happened, YOU said it was “unbelievable”.

[swain_forkbeard]

Not guilty.

[MNlurker]

FREE GODDARD NOW!

[GeorgiaDawg32]

NOT GUILTY (and where the heck was she when I was in high school??????????)

[gimme1ibertee]

Sooooo....let me get this straight...
A registered sex offender is allowed to continue contacting the victim.
Just...damn.
The UK is spinning out of control faster and faster,isn't it?

[JRios1968]

Not guilty by any meaning of the term

[Candor7]

Definitely Not Guilty. All she needs is some sex therapy.

That should lick the problem she has.

She will still be allowed to see the student after serving time? Such is the kindness of the lib courts these days.

[Dallas59]

Thank gawd the victim wasn’t 14./s

[xsmommy]

are you a lezbean? LOL!

[Nonstatist]

Not guilty.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I wonder if her supervisor called her on the carpet?

[numberonepal]

Not so guilty.

[rintense]

Sounds like beating around the bush to me.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Helen Goddard - a music teacher nicknamed “the jazz lady” by pupils

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I’m betting that she’s accumulated a few other nicknames by now.

[Snurple]

Id hit it.

[avacado]

Flat as an 11 year old boy: GUILTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[tet68]

well, they say playing trumpet is all in the lip.

[Sender]

Trumpet is difficult to teach. It’s all in the lips and the tongue.

[GQuagmire]

Schwing!

[Sender]

You and I had the same naughty thought.

[Frantzie]

Gee how old is she? Not guilty. I think she just need corporal punishment and a spanking. Well multiple spankings.

[pissant]

Innocent as the driven snow

[headstamp 2]

With the signing of the Lisbon Treaty this stuff should not be a concern anymore.

Signed,

Emily Litella

[Snurple]

Point of fact...I think I did hit that. lol

[HIDEK6]

Not guilty.

[ryan71]

Poor thing. Did they have to cuff her? Let her go.

[SERKIT]

She could go to work for this fine company when released.

[Moose4]

She looks like Melissa Ethridge’s younger sister.

(That’s not a bad thing, btw...ME was pretty cute when she first got famous.)

}:-)4

[MEGoody]

Guilty as heck. She has admitted it.

[ankh]

Release her NOW

[RichInOC]

[roll that beautiful Alex Van Halen drum solo...]

[b4its2late]

That should lick the problem she has.

You are bad! I love it!

[gimme1ibertee]

LOLOL!!!! Don’t you mean “beating around the butch?” :P

[Oldpuppymax]

She is a dyke? What a waste!

[sand lake bar]

A total travesty of justice!

[gimme1ibertee]

ROTFL! From Strap-on to Snap-On!!

[GeorgiaDawg32]

close, I’m a guy who likes women..does that count???

[xsmommy]

i have seen pix of trav and he doesn’t look a thing like this lesbean! ; )

[Candor7]

So many licks to see, and so little time. LOL.

[windcliff]

LOL

[xsmommy]

just checking bc i am a woman who likes men and she looks scary-dykey to me!

[Liberty Valance]

A public school mistress ...
Helen Goddard - a music teacher nicknamed “the jazz lady”



There's your trouble.
We didn't have public school mistresses when I was in school.



There were more Lutherans than Lesbitarians ;o)

[PapaBear3625]

Sooooo....let me get this straight... A registered sex offender is allowed to continue contacting the victim.

When Goddard gets out, the girl will be over 16, which is the age of consent in the UK, and Goddard will not be her teacher any more.

[MHGinTN]

You need to use illustrations with your astute quips, especially when you reference a brilliant comedian:

[Hegewisch Dupa]

As Arthur Fonzarelli would vote: “Not Guilty Amundo!!!”

[ari-freedom]

here's another pic I found:

[andy58-in-nh]

Aside from the blonde hair, she is rather masculine-looking.

[ichabod1]

She really got called on the carpet for that one.

[Owl_Eagle]

C’mon fellas, I like ‘em curvy too, but lesbians are supposed to be skinny.