Tutor ‘slapped student’s bare bottom’

A private tutor sexually assaulted an eleven year-old girl by spanking her bare bottom for being naughty, a court heard. Stephen Bell, 62, bent the child over his knee and slapped her three times during the two-hour lesson at her home in north London. When the girl complained to a staff member at her school, Bell told police that he only smacked his pupils’ bottoms with their parents’ consent and denied it was sexual. But a search of his laptop…