She has been charged with three counts of aggravated sexual intercourse with a child.<\/p>\n
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St Augustine’s College in Brookvale, in northern Sydney. (Nick Moir)<\/p>\n
Clements also faces one count of intentionally sexually touching a child.\u00a0<\/p>\n
St Augustine’s principal Jonathan Byrne said the college notified police after becoming aware of the allegations and immediately stood Clements down from her role.<\/p>\n
Her employment has since been terminated.<\/p>\n
“We continue to work with police and relevant authorities and, in the meantime, our focus is on ensuring the privacy and well-being of the student and family,” Byrne said in a letter to parents.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The judicial process must be allowed to run its natural course.<\/p>\n
“However I believe that the former teacher has betrayed the trust placed in them by the college and families.”<\/p>\n
He acknowledged the investigation would cause anxiety and be an “incredibly distressing time” for some but cautioned against harmful speculation about those involved.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“If you have not been contacted, your son is not currently part of the active investigation,” Byrne told parents.<\/p>\n
“Please respect that in this instance we are legally limited in what we can share, and have a primary consideration to protect the safety and wellbeing of the student.”<\/p>\n
Clements remains behind bars despite being granted bail yesterday by Manly Local Court.<\/p>\n
A magistrate granted her release under strict conditions including that she abstain from social media use.<\/p>\n
But the police prosecutor made a rare application to stay the bail decision so a detention application can be heard in the NSW Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The move means Clements will remain behind bars on remand until the application is heard or until 4pm on Thursday, whichever is first.\u00a0<\/p>\n
She has not yet entered pleas to the charges.<\/p>\n
An interim apprehended domestic violence order is in place to protect the student.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Support is available from 1800 RESPECT (1800 737 732), National Sexual Abuson 1800 55 1800 (for people aged five to 25).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A female teacher has been sacked by an elite Catholic boys school after being charged with sexually abusing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-180545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}