Married teacher allegedly blindfolded and tied 10-year-old student to bed to have sex

A married UK teacher allegedly blindfolded and tied a 10-year-old boy to a bed before tickling him with a feather and having sex with him, her now-adult accuser tearfully testified this week.Deborah Franklin, now 65, was “young, energetic and approachable” when she groomed and then abused the boy more than 35 years ago, according to prosecutors who charged her when the accuser came forward in 2024, according to the Sun.The accuser, now in his 40s, tearfully told jurors that he was just 9 when he developed a “strong friendship” with his “very gregarious” teacher who also became his private tutor in Hertfordshire, England, in the early 1990s — one that quickly turned to inappropriate “whispering” and “inside jokes.”“She spoke about drugs, cigarettes, sex.

Very adult things,” the alleged victim testified through tears, “I was the perfect candidate” for grooming, he said.“I was interested to know those types of things.”Franklin then took it beyond words after the boy won a bet against her – and she teased him for picking “something childish” for his prize, he alleged.“She said ‘I’m very surprised that’s what you want.’I would have thought you wanted to see me without my clothes on,” Franklin’s accuser testified.While he now realizes he was the victim of a “ton of manipulation,” he said that “at the time it was like, ‘I am in a relationship.

I’m your girlfriend.” We have to be cautious,” he said.'”He claimed she kissed him on the lips for the first time in his garage — and soon “I remember her clothes were off and she was teaching me how to touch a woman.”“I remember her just telling me what to do and I would just do it,” he testified.He claimed they had sex when he was just 10, both in his brother’s bedroom as well as the teacher’s own home.“She asked me to come on the bed.I think it was her marital bed.

I remember her tying me.Tying my arms down,” he said.“She had a feather.

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