Teacher denies tying boy to her bed and blindfolding him

A teacher accused of repeatedly abusing a pupil denied tying him to the bed and blindfolding him today (mon). Deborah Franklin, 65, is accused of eight counts of gross indecency with a boy under 14 between 1991 and 1995 at a preparatory school in Hertfordshire. The complainant, now in his 40s, said he was nine when he joined Franklin’s class and she became his private tutor. In a video recorded interview he described ‘countless’ sexual encounters in which married Franklin…