Nine years for ballet teacher who used ‘fame and respectability’ to sexually abuse dancers

An English National Ballet teacher who sexually abused four teenage dancers was jailed for nine years. Yat-Sen Chang, 50, established himself as an internationally renowned dancer with leading roles in The Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty, Swan Lake and Romeo and Juliet. But he had a darker side and used his ‘fame and respectability’ to target girls who looked upon him in awe. Perverted Chang groomed and sexually assaulted four ‘starstruck’ girls between December 2009 and March 2016. Chang would ‘switch into…