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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. | But a jury at Teesside Crown Court found her guilty of all charges after a two-week trial. |
| Judge Howard Crowson warned Lakey to expect a jail term when she is sentenced on Wednesday. | |
| He said the type of sentence handed down would be "inevitable" but granted her bail as "an act of mercy". | |
| 'Not consent by law' | |
| Lakey committed the offences over a three-year period, with some carried out when she was a history teacher in her late 20s. | |
| The teacher, 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. | 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. | 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. | But in 2012, one of her victims emailed her school, which led to her being suspended and subsequently reported to police. |
| Det Insp Aelf Sampson, of Northumbria Police, said the boys had been "vulnerable victims of sexual abuse at the hands of a woman who had some power and responsibility for them." | |
| "These boys should have been safe in her company, instead of being damaged by their experience. | |
| "Regardless of whether these boys appear to have been willing participants in the offences, they could not consent by law to what happened." | |
| Lakey had earlier admitted having a sexual relationship with the older victim when he was 18 and she was in her early 30s. |