Teacher ‘had sex with pupil after telling him she looked like porn star’
Teacher ‘had sex with pupil after telling him she looked like porn star’
Telegraph reportersWed, August 12, 2026 at 5:00 PM UTC
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Sally-Anne Bowen is accused of having had sexual relationships with two boys in the 1980s, when they were around 15 and she was in her mid-20s - Callum Cuddeford/Centrak news
A female teacher had sex with a male pupil after telling him she looked like a porn star, a court has heard.
Sally-Anne Bowen, 65, is on trial at Harrow Crown Court accused of eight counts of indecent assault against two boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, in the 1980s.
She is alleged to have entered into sexual relationships with both boys in the late 1980s, when they were around 14 to 15 and she was in her mid-20s, the court heard.
Ms Bowen, who denies the charges, taught at Christ’s College school in Finchley, north London, when the offences were alleged to have taken place.
The teacher, of Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, had sex with one of the boys “about 20 or 30 times”, jurors heard.
Madeleine Wolfe, prosecuting, said: “The prosecution do not suggest that Sally-Anne Bowen forced herself on either boy, and accept that, viewed superficially, they may have appeared to have been willing to participate in the sexual acts with Ms Bowen.
“By flirting with them, by sexualising her relationships with them and by encouraging them to engage in sexual conduct with her, she exploited that position for her own sexual gratification.”
Ms Bowen reportedly had sex with one of the boys ‘about 20 or 30 times’, jurors heard - Callum Cuddeford/centrak news
The first complainant told police that Ms Bowen made him feel “special” by spending lunchtimes with him in a cafe near the school, the court heard.
Ms Wolfe said: “As far as [he] was concerned, as their relationship evolved both physically and emotionally, he looked on her as his girlfriend and felt that he had fallen in love with her.”
The boy remembered a specific lunchtime when he and some friends were flicking through a pornographic magazine and Ms Bowen took it from them.
He expected her to confiscate it, but Ms Wolfe said: “In fact, what Ms Bowen did was open the pages and pointed to an image of a naked woman and said that woman’s ‘p----’ was similar to her own.”
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This led to the boy taking the bus home with her to Golders Green, where they kissed in her flat, jurors heard.
‘Goaded’ into kissing
During a period of several months, the boy regularly visited Ms Bowen at her home and the two had sex, jurors were told.
The boy’s mother, having grown suspicious of his relationship with Ms Bowen, raised her concerns with the school. She was told Ms Bowen no longer worked there, but “wasn’t given any explanation as to why that was”, said Ms Wolfe.
Ms Bowen told the boy she was moving to Israel to stay in a kibbutz, leaving him “completely lost” and “heartbroken”, Ms Wolfe added.
The second complainant also recalled spending lunchtimes in the café with Ms Bowen, the court heard.
Jurors were told that he recalled being “goaded” into kissing Ms Bowen by the other boys and remembered touching her breasts while they were in the cafe.
On several occasions, Ms Wolfe added, the “besotted” boy walked the teacher home and the two kissed before parting ways.
‘She was not their peer’
“The prosecution suggests that this sexual behaviour towards a pupil was something that Sally-Anne Bowen should have put a stop to and it was an indecent assault on her behalf,” said Ms Wolfe.
“Young as she was, she was not their peer, and she was not entitled to treat them as if they were adults capable of entering into sexual relationships with her.
“She was a teacher, entrusted with the care and welfare of pupils, and the prosecution say she abused that trust for her own sexual gratification.”
“The issue in this case is not whether these boys appeared flattered, willing or besotted, as she describes it at the time. It is whether Sally-Anne Bowen, knowing her position and their vulnerability, crossed the boundaries that existed to protect them at that school in the 1980s.”
The trial continues.
Source: “AOL Breaking”
