HEADTEACHER WHO DESCRIBED SEXUALLY ABUSING A CHILD TO MOTHER ON FETISH WEBSITE DURING SCHOOL HOURS IS BANNED
The head of a primary school who discussed sexually abusing a child with a mother he met on a fetish website has been banned from teaching for life.Paul Brown, the safeguarding lead at Bransgore Church of England school in Christchurch, Hampshire, left in April 2024 due to 'personal reasons'.
It has emerged he was arrested in July 2023 as a suspected paedophile, though he was not charged.
Brown used a BDSM website Fetlife between June and July 2023, sometimes during school hours, exchanging messages with a woman claiming to be a mother of two young daughters.
In these messages, Brown graphically described sexually abusing a child.
He asked if she had given her daughters 'special mummy time' and had access to 'her toys', also discussing if the girls had watched porn, and said they could be introduced as a 'friend from work'.
Brown spoke about sexually abusing the children while the mother would 'watch/support/encourage' them.
He told this woman about previous involvement with another mother and her children.
After police arrested him, Brown claimed he thought it was 'all fantasy' and that the children didn't exist.
He said he made up the story to 'encourage' the woman to open up and later decided to stop contact after hearing 'real children' in the background.
He told police he had fabricated parts of his conversations and claimed he would never consider harming a child.
A device search revealed no evidence of other similar conversations.
The misconduct was found by the Teaching Regulation Agency in November, but character witnesses claimed he had helped children and acted unwisely without intent to harm.
Despite the allegations, the panel heard that he was a 'good man' whose life's work was taken away.
The school stated that safeguarding is a top priority and followed all procedures by reporting the incidents to the TRA, which conducted its own investigation and confirmed the seriousness of his conduct.
