Teaching assistant, 32, is jailed for two years after having sexual relationship with pupil, 15, that made him consider 'mutilating' his own genitals in desperate bid to end abuse
A teaching assistant has been jailed after having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy pupil with whom she says she fell in love.
The schoolboy was so devastated by the then-25-year-old's sexual demands that he confessed to the judge he had considered sexually harming himself in a bid to become less attractive to the woman.
The shocking story of the teaching assistant's illicit behaviour towards the boy 10 years her junior was revealed in court at a sentencing hearing which saw Fay Mcrobbie jailed for more than two years.
Mcrobbie, now 32 and from Wallingford, Oxfordshire, groomed her 15-year-old student beginning in 2014, a court heard.
At his breaking point, the schoolboy ended their two-year relationship, claiming he did not love the learning support assistant anymore.
However, when Mcrobbie found out he was starting a relationship with a girl of his own age, she penned a letter threatening to kill herself.
The now 22-year-old victim stood up in crown court to express how the teacher's controlling behaviour had deeply affected him.
He said: 'Fay was relying on me emotionally. I felt responsible for her feelings.
'The relationship only got worse, arguments were getting more frequent and the reasons were getting more silly each time.
'I was becoming severely depressed as I could not speak to anyone, Fay was my only friend.
'As I was going to be leaving school and going to college, I wanted to stop talking to Fay but she was planning a future for us.
'Around New Year's Eve I told her I did not love her anymore. She broke down saying she could not continue life if we were not together.
'She told me she wanted to kill herself. She was over-burdening me with her emotions.
Fay found out about my new girlfriend and she went crazy. She made it her mission to break us apart.
'At the time I would have done anything to get her away from me, I even considered genital mutilation - I thought if I had nothing there to interest her then she might leave me alone.'
The 'wholly inappropriate' relationship began while brunette Mcrobbie was teaching the student at his school in Wokingham, Berks.
She invited the boy - to the knowledge of the school - to her martial arts training classes.
The pair would travel to the sessions together, allowing their 'friendship to flourish into a relationship,' prosecutor Robin Miric said.
Sitting at Reading Crown Court, the judge heard how the couple first kissed outside a martial arts class during a play fight which led to participating in mutual sexual touching in the training hall on at least 10 occasions.
The pupil, who cannot be named for legal reasons, explained to the judge: 'During the travel to and from martial arts she would give me a lot of attention and we were able to talk about a lot of things.
'Fay and I were getting closer, we would hug and she would rest her head on my shoulder but I was too uncomfortable to say anything.
'One day before training, we were play-fighting when things took a turn and we kissed. Before this point I did not have any interest in girls, it was unexpected for me. After this we would get to training early so we could do more sexual stuff.
'Over the summer holidays we went to a friend's house, this was the first time we had sex.
'I felt I wanted to run away, I was very much not ready, it was the first time I was naked in front of someone else.
'I felt dirty, I could not stand the sight of myself in the mirror and I felt my innocence had been taken away.'
Fay Mcrobbie, from Oxfordshire, groomed the schoolboy by inviting him to a martial arts class. The court heard when the teen ended the relationship 26-year-old Mcrobbie threatened to kill herself
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Two years? If she was a male teacher, she would have got more time behind bars.