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Cornwall-area teacher found guilty on three counts flowing from her sexual interference with 13-year-old boy
A Cornwall-area teacher was found guilty Thursday on all three counts flowing from her sexual interference with a 13-year-old boy in September 2004.
Jennifer Dorland will be sentenced on Feb. 25. She has been ordered to hand in her passport and remain in the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, where her mother resides.
The 42-year-old blonde-haired woman sat motionless for 10 minutes in her seat at the defence table in the courtroom after which she began to cry softly while being consoled by her husband.
Justice Julie-Ann Parfett said she found the testimony of the young student who is now 17 "generally credible, unlike much of Mrs. Dorland's." Mrs. Dorland was charged with sexual assault, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching.
When the suspended junior high school teacher took the stand in her own defence she admitted that she had sent inappropriate e-mails to the former student, but denied she had engaged in a sexual relationship with the young male. Mrs. Dorland told court she never kissed or fondled the student or allowed him to touch her breasts and genitals.
However, Mrs. Dorland, 42, admitted her decision to engage in suggestive and sexual e-mail discussions with the former student, whose name is protected by a publication ban, has left her "embarrassed and ashamed." "It was absolutely a terrible, horrible idea.
I have been paying for that e-mail and conversation for two years," testified Mrs. Dorland, who, in one of the e-mails, told the student she loved groans and hands on her stomach. In the other e-mail, Mrs. Dorland asked the student if he has any regrets.
The former student had earlier testified the e-mail had been sent hours after he and the teacher kissed and fondled each other on a couch in the basement of Mrs. Dorland's home in September 2004.
The two e-mails, sent Sept. 11 and Sept. 22, 2004, were evidence in the six-day trial. Mrs. Dorland testified the first e-mail was in response to questions about how to treat and touch a woman, while the second had to do with the student's breakup with one girl and his interest in another older girl.
But on cross-examination, Crown prosecutor Jennifer Burke attacked Mrs. Dorland's explanation, questioning why a dedicated teacher would risk her job, marriage, two children and social life when she knew the e-mail conversations were inappropriate.
Teacher guilty
Cornwall-area teacher found guilty on three counts flowing from her sexual interference with 13-year-old boy
A Cornwall-area teacher was found guilty Thursday on all three counts flowing from her sexual interference with a 13-year-old boy in September 2004.
Jennifer Dorland will be sentenced on Feb. 25. She has been ordered to hand in her passport and remain in the provinces of Ontario and Manitoba, where her mother resides.
The 42-year-old blonde-haired woman sat motionless for 10 minutes in her seat at the defence table in the courtroom after which she began to cry softly while being consoled by her husband.
Justice Julie-Ann Parfett said she found the testimony of the young student who is now 17 "generally credible, unlike much of Mrs. Dorland's." Mrs. Dorland was charged with sexual assault, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching.
When the suspended junior high school teacher took the stand in her own defence she admitted that she had sent inappropriate e-mails to the former student, but denied she had engaged in a sexual relationship with the young male. Mrs. Dorland told court she never kissed or fondled the student or allowed him to touch her breasts and genitals.
However, Mrs. Dorland, 42, admitted her decision to engage in suggestive and sexual e-mail discussions with the former student, whose name is protected by a publication ban, has left her "embarrassed and ashamed." "It was absolutely a terrible, horrible idea.
I have been paying for that e-mail and conversation for two years," testified Mrs. Dorland, who, in one of the e-mails, told the student she loved groans and hands on her stomach. In the other e-mail, Mrs. Dorland asked the student if he has any regrets.
The former student had earlier testified the e-mail had been sent hours after he and the teacher kissed and fondled each other on a couch in the basement of Mrs. Dorland's home in September 2004.
The two e-mails, sent Sept. 11 and Sept. 22, 2004, were evidence in the six-day trial. Mrs. Dorland testified the first e-mail was in response to questions about how to treat and touch a woman, while the second had to do with the student's breakup with one girl and his interest in another older girl.
But on cross-examination, Crown prosecutor Jennifer Burke attacked Mrs. Dorland's explanation, questioning why a dedicated teacher would risk her job, marriage, two children and social life when she knew the e-mail conversations were inappropriate.