Teacher Eppie Sprung Dawson has moved the teenager, now 18, into her home despite being on the sex offenders' register
A
teacher caught having an affair with her 17-year-old pupil is now
living with him in her marital home, two months after being placed on
the sex offenders’ register.
Eppie
Sprung Dawson, 27, lost her job and her marriage after being discovered
half-naked in a layby with teenager Matthew Robinson.
She narrowly escaped a prison sentence and is now working behind a bar in Dumfries.
But
she has moved the boy she was caught with into her house, to the
distress of his parents who are appealing to him to come home.
Matthew,
now 18, left his parents’ farmhouse last week after a row with his
mother over failing to tidy his room. He is now living with his former
teacher and they fear he may not return.
The
teenager’s mother, Sheree Robinson, said: ‘We had a normal family row
about his room being untidy and he just left. He rang Eppie to come and
pick him up.
‘We don’t know what she is after and what is in her mind.
‘I think the whole family are still in shock. You send your child to school and you expect them to to be safe.
'She is a sex offender - she has abused her power and her position to gain the trust of a child and to do this.
‘Given he was 17 when this happened, she should have gone to jail.’
The young teacher’s affair was exposed when they were caught together in her car following a school dance last December.
The
pair were half-naked when police knocked on the window and she pleaded
guilty to sexual activity with a person under 18 while she was in a
position of trust and his teacher.
Sprung
Dawson escaped being jailed at the court case in July but was ordered
to sign the sex offenders’ register for six months and given a six-month
community payback order.
She
lost her job at St Joseph’s College in Dumfries and separated from her
husband of two years, Ranald Dawson, also a teacher and the son of
former Solicitor General for Scotland Lord Dawson.
But
just minutes after appearing in the dock, Matthew’s father, Jonathan
Robinson, revealed the disgraced teacher telephoned his son.
The pair have stayed in close contact and she has showered the youngster with expensive Xbox computer games and rugby tops.
Engineer Mr Robinson, 45, said: ‘She’s just generally keeping him there by buying him things.
‘She has got her hooks into him at the moment. She just can’t let go.’
Matthew’s family fear they will become a couple, although he has insisted to his parents that they are just friends.
The
pair are currently living together in Sprung Dawson’s house in an
upmarket area of Dumfries, which she shared with her husband before he
walked out.
Mrs Robinson, a
mother of six, said she and her husband had begged the teacher, who
they knew from parents’ evenings, to end the relationship following the
trial.
She said: ‘We asked
her to our farmhouse to talk to her and we thought it was resolved
because she said she was happy to leave him alone and it was Matthew’s
choice.
‘We now know she
went and rang him shortly afterwards. She didn’t do what we asked her
and she was devious. It is clear she wants more out of the relationship
than Matthew but he has no chance to meet a girl his own age while he is
living there.’
Instead of backing off from Matthew, Mrs Sprung Dawson is said to have bombarded him with text messages and phone calls.
She grew close to Matthew after giving the dyslexic schoolboy extra lessons to help him with his studies.
Sprung Dawson's marriage to husband Ranald ended
after the affair was revealed and the student is now living in their
former marital home in Dumfries
During their secret affair, she
took him to a hotel in Carlisle for a romantic trip and attended
parties with his teenage friends.
His
parents had no suspicions and Matthew told them he was playing rugby.
The first they knew was when the police turned up at their door last
year.
Their son, now a
carpentry and joinery student at Dumfries College, has given no
indication he will return home and his parents say he has become
isolated from friends his own age.
Mrs
Sprung Dawson, who is undergoing psychosexual counselling after telling
Dumfries Sheriff Court she had been molested by an older man at the age
of 13, was not at home yesterday.
The
owner of the Slipstream bar, where she now works, said she had been
given as much time off as she needed following the renewed attention
over her relationship and had gone to Edinburgh.
No one was available for comment at the house she shares with Matthew.
The
family of Matthew Robinson have said they have ‘no clue’ what to do
next, and have refused to visit him at Sprung Dawson’s home.
Mrs
Robinson said she believed the teenager had been pursued by his
teacher, adding: ‘He is a teenage boy and what teenage boy would not
have done what he did?
‘We are still in shock over everything that has happened.
‘My son’s future is at stake and we feel that she has got away with it. I just hope that he comes home.’
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