This is Sarah Pirie, a ballet teacher and television actress, who is accused of abducting a fifteen year old boy and having sex with him at various hotels in Lancashire. How desperately awful it must have been for the lad, who was allegedly subjected to three months of this sort of treatment. I can only thank the Lord that I was never abducted when I was fifteen by, say, my old chemistry teacher Miss “Pobbles” Johnson – who had done some modeling work I believe, to supplement her meager teaching income – and subjected to three months of absolutely relentless, demeaning, illegal, sordid sex in various hotels. I would have been absolutely bloody devastated. But she never did, she never did. Thank the lord. She never did.

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