- Kelly-Anne Jennings was charged Wednesday and faces 18 little one intercourse expenses
- Dad and mom had been shocked, describing the 40-year-old as somebody ‘everybody liked’
A 40-year-old feminine instructor described as somebody ‘everybody liked’ at a Catholic college in Canada is charged with over a dozen little one intercourse offenses.
Kelly-Anne Jennings was charged Wednesday with sexual assault, sexual interference, luring kids and possession of kid pornography after being arrested weeks earlier on comparable counts.
Police began to analyze Jennings final month after one pupil at St. Anthony Catholic Elementary College blew the whistle on her.
They mentioned the sufferer was at the moment a pupil of Jennings on the college after they spoke to authorities.
Jennings was initially arrested and charged with one rely every of intercourse assault and sexual interference on August 29.
Kelly-Anne Jennings, 40, was charged Wednesday with sexual assault, sexual interference, luring kids and possession of kid pornography after being arrested weeks earlier on comparable counts
Police began to analyze Jennings final month after one pupil at St. Anthony Catholic Elementary College blew the whistle on her
Her arrest prompted no less than three extra victims to come back ahead, native police mentioned and a search warrant was ultimately positioned.
Jennings was once more arrested at her house in Ontario on September 4 and was charged with 16 extra counts on these comparable expenses in opposition to the scholars, who had been solely recognized as ex-students.
Dad and mom of present college students actually cannot stifle their disbelief after the arrests went public.
They described Jennings as an ideal instructor universally appreciated inside the neighborhood earlier than the kid intercourse allegations got here out.
‘You simply by no means know. She was a instructor everybody liked,’ one nameless father or mother advised Metroland.
‘It is a stunning and a stark reminder that predators will be anybody and will be somebody that everybody is aware of and trusts’.
‘It is a unhappy actuality, however we have to maintain the dialog open with our youngsters and that we ought to be monitoring their units.’
Jennings, who taught on the college on a component time foundation in 2008 earlier than taking a full-time place in 2016, was positioned on administrative depart.
Dad and mom of present college students at St. Anthony’s actually cannot stifle their disbelief after the arrests went public. They described Jennings as an ideal instructor universally appreciated inside the neighborhood earlier than the kid intercourse allegations got here out
‘We take all allegations of employees misconduct very significantly and board employees have been co-operating totally with the police all through their investigation,’ the varsity board mentioned in an announcement.
‘We all know conditions like this may be distressing and we need to guarantee households that extra psychological well being help might be accessible.’
Jennings is at the moment free after her husband made $10,000 bail.
