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| Teacher jailed for sex with boy | |
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| A religious education teacher who admitted having an affair with a teenage boy from her school has been jailed for 32 months. | |
| Madeleine Martin, 39, had pleaded guilty to 10 counts of engaging in sexual activity with the 15-year-old pupil in February this year. | |
| Martin, of Grassfield Way, Knutsford, Cheshire, was sentenced at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court. | Martin, of Grassfield Way, Knutsford, Cheshire, was sentenced at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court. |
| The teacher was employed at a school in Tameside, Greater Manchester. | The teacher was employed at a school in Tameside, Greater Manchester. |
| The affair became so intense, a police spokesman said, she drove her victim to a tattooist and paid for him to have initials relating to her name etched on him. | |
| Having first met the boy in September 2008, the pair began communicating via a networking website and during later months it escalated into a sexual relationship. | |
| After their visit to the tattooist on 9 February, Martin drove them to a secluded area where she had sex with him in the back of her car. | |
| Martin's actions will leave emotional scars on her victim and his family and have also impacted on the wider community Det Sgt Dave Moores | |
| The affair lasted for a number of days, but a week later they met and the boy told her their relationship was over. | |
| He eventually told his mother about the affair and she immediately reported the matter to police on 20 April. | |
| Martin admitted 10 counts of causing a 15-year-old boy to engage in sexual activity between 9 February 2009 and 16 February 2009, of which she received 32 months per charge to run concurrently. | |
| Det Sgt Dave Moores said: "Martin's actions will leave emotional scars on her victim and his family and have also impacted on the wider community. | |
| "I would like to praise the bravery of the victim in speaking out and ensuring justice was done for him. | |
| "I am satisfied that she has been given the sentence she deserves and hope this will send a strong message that this abusive behaviour will not be tolerated." | |
| Martin has been made to sign the sex offenders register and will remain on it indefinitely. |