A teacher’s conviction for raping and sexually assaulting a family member affects his fitness to teach, a panel has heard. Tuesday’s inquiry heard the offences occurred primarily in the family home, over 20 years ago when both the teacher and his victim were children. At the time of the offences, the teacher was in his mid-to-late teenage years while the family member was in their preteen and early teenage years. The sexual misconduct consisted of incidents of sexual touching, oral rape and an anal rape. In his submission Mr O’Sullivan said that “on any analysis” the convictions against the teacher affects his fitness to teach.
