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A teacher in Australia faces multiple charges after allegedly sexually assaulting a student on campus and during an overnight field trip.

Deandra Kontou, 32, has been charged with nine child abuse-related offences, including aggravated sexual assault, four counts of sexual assault and using an electronic device to groom the victim, The Sydney Morning Herald and Nine.com.au reported.

Kontou went by her birth name Haralambidis and was teaching at Newington College, a private school in Stanmore, a suburb of Sydney, at the time of the alleged offences. Per Nine.com.au, she was employed at the school in 2017 and is believed to have left in 2019.

The alleged abuse spanned six months, beginning with the teacher allegedly showing the student, a boy, indecent material to make it easier to “procure the child for unlawful sexual activity,” the Herald reported.

It’s claimed that she then began grooming him through messages, twice coerced him to sexually touch and carry out a sex act on her without his consent and twice sexually touched him.

These alleged offences all took place during school hours in or near the school’s campus.

A few months later, the abuse is alleged to have continued at an overnight field trip to Fitzroy Island, in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park. There, she was accused of twice sexually touching him during the day before sexually assaulting him between 10 p.m. and 11 p.m. that evening, the Herald reported.

Kontou was arrested on Monday, Sept. 21, and appeared at Sutherland Local Court later that day, per the newspaper. She was granted bail on the condition that she would surrender her passport, report to police daily and not contact the alleged victim or witnesses.

She is also banned from entering any school grounds, teaching children or being in the company of any child without their parent or guardian, per the Herald. She is set to appear at Burwood Local Court on Nov. 26, Nine.com.au reported.

Kontou left Newington College shortly after an allegation relating to the field trip was made to other staff members, with parents told she was on an “approved leave of absence” when she failed to return to school after the camp.

She began a permanent role at the Georges River College Senior Campus in Oatley, another Sydney suburb, in 2024, after several casual teaching jobs, per the Herald. None of the charges she faces relate to her time at the school or her time employed by NSW’s Department of Education.

NSW Deputy Premier and Education Minister, Prue Car, ordered an urgent review into the department’s hiring of Kontou, and is expected to look at any correspondence between the department and the police before she was hired, the newspaper reported.

Georges River College Senior Campus principal Anna Girginis called pupil care and wellbeing the school’s “highest priorities” in a letter to parents on Wednesday, Sept. 30, via the Herald, and she encouraged students to seek counseling if they are affected by the news.

PEOPLE reached out to the New South Wales Police, Sutherland Local Court, Burwood Local Court, Newington College and Georges River College Senior Campus for comment but did not immediately hear back.

omoredia:
Abeg leave her she is good looking and she set.

omoredia:
Dey play. The truth is what makes things good. Fact

Jakumo:
My goodness, this woman is really sexy and fit, despite being 35 years old. Aged 15, I would have been delighted and eternally grateful if a woman with these good looks decided to share carnal knowledge with me.

Too bad she tried to get a minor to mount her, because there would have been no shortage of men over 18 who would gladly do the honors.

Kobicove:
It is always Caucasians.

Anyway, white people are so shameless,

Kobicove:
It is always Caucasians.
Anyway, white people are so shameless,

nairalanda1:
That's why you guys dont have good government in nigeria, with attitudes like these.

Lalami3232:
Na man wey never mature and get experience na go think say women no like sex more than men.
Wetin dey underage wey dey sweet una? Anyways she's a nonvirgin and they're the same worldwide. It's either a politician or a force man is dying ontop of them in a hotel or dem dey open leg for something cheap or dem dey use toys/cucumber or dem dey take advantage of minors. Unforgiving and bandit preeq dey here for free but they won't want to come and get it, rather they go for the yeye ones. Tufiakwa!!!
If you were lucky to meet your wife as a virgin, oga take her out tonight and give her a treat because she's special. But if the door was wide open by unforgiving carpenters like us before you took full ownership, oga DNA should be your first location next week.


What do I even know sef aside enlightening my fellow men nationwide with the good news of DNA test

buygala:
Lucky lad


If I had been assaulted as a teen by someone so fine, I won't be here supporting Tinubu and Remi

nairalanda1:
It's still violation of the law. Law does not respect feelings. Law exists to protect the vulnerable from being exploited, and to impose order so that anarchy does not result.

buygala:
If I was the teen supposedly sexually abused, the law will need my testimony to convict her

No testimony from me, she walks free from all charges pertaining to me

nairalanda1:
If the case is at the level of charges, you probably have given some verbal evidence to a parent or to law enforcement.

Also, they may have gotten digital evidence, and other evidence from the teacher.

They don't just need your 'testimony' , and they may not need it.

Also, don't excuse her wrongdoing. It may not affect you, but others have been affected by being sexually molested by the beautiful teacher in their lives. And to be honest, I find your attitude wroong and insensitive, and lacking knowledge of sexual abuse and its effect on a large majority of children

And you won't want this happening to your child.

Jakumo:
My goodness, this woman is really sexy and fit, despite being 35 years old. Aged 15, I would have been delighted and eternally grateful if a woman with these good looks decided to share carnal knowledge with me.

Too bad she tried to get a minor to mount her, because there would have been no shortage of men over 18 who would gladly do the honors.

buygala:
I am a lawyer

You obviously aren't

You are well in over your head on this..let it rest

And no, I am speaking for myself, not for all victims..so I dont know where all your extra balablu is coming from ..

Is it by force to admit being sexually abused?

Jakumo:
Too bad she tried to get a minor to mount her, because there would have been no shortage of men over 18 who would gladly do the honors.

spinna:
I just knew she'd be hot. Strangely most of these cases in the West, the female teacher is attractive.