Maths teacher ‘preyed on schoolgirl’

A teacher sexually abused a teenage pupil, a court heard. Sean Bettinson, 48, is accused of five counts of indecent assault with a girl under 16 and four counts of abuse of position of trust between July 2000 and July 2003. The offences, which relate to a single complainant, allege that he engaged in multiple incidents of sexual activity with her. Bettinson is yet to enter any pleas to the allegations. According to his online profiles Bettinson was a maths…