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| Head teacher Anne Lakey guilty of underage sex with boys | Head teacher Anne Lakey guilty of underage sex with boys |
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| A nationally-acclaimed head teacher has been found guilty of having underage sex with two boys. | A nationally-acclaimed head teacher has been found guilty of having underage sex with two boys. |
| Anne Lakey, 55, from Stanley, County Durham, had denied 13 counts of indecent assault on two teenagers in the 1980s. | Anne Lakey, 55, from Stanley, County Durham, had denied 13 counts of indecent assault on two teenagers in the 1980s. |
| But a jury at Teesside Crown Court found her guilty of all charges after a two-week trial. | |
| The court heard how she carried out the assaults over a three-year period. She will be sentenced on Wednesday. | The court heard how she carried out the assaults over a three-year period. She will be sentenced on Wednesday. |
| Some of the offences took place when Lakey was a history teacher in her late 20s, the court was told. | |
| Lakey, described by prosecutors as a "sexual predator", targeted a 15-year-old boy and another victim aged 13 or 14. | |
| During her trial, one of the victims told jurors the mother-of-one took his virginity after letting him watch her bathe. | |
| Lakey went on to have a successful career and was praised for turning a failing school into one of the country's most improved. | |
| But in 2012, one of her victims emailed her school, which led to her being suspended and subsequently reported to police. |