A instructor sacked a decade after she started a sexual relationship with a pupil which concerned the trade of 6,000 Facebook messages has been recognized as a faculty principal recognised by the schooling minister in state parliament two years in the past.
Dean Grey, from Narrabri in northern NSW, was 17 and in his ultimate 12 months of highschool in 2013 when he started having sex with his teacher Annabel Doust.
Eight years later, in October 2021, the younger father-of-two dislocated his shoulder and drowned in the Namoi River on a boys’ camping trip.
His heartbroken household fought for motion to be taken in opposition to the instructor, however police stated the grievance couldn’t progress additional as a result of the sufferer was lifeless.
Greater than 10 years after Dean and his principal’s sexual relationship started, Ms Doust was dismissed by the NSW Division of Training this week.
Former faculty principal Annabel Doust (pictured in 2017) was dismissed by the NSW Division of Training over a relationship with a pupil in 2013.
It follows a 12-month inquiry by the division’s Skilled and Moral Requirements Directorate after Ms Doust was stood down from her function final 12 months, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.
It’s understood investigators discovered there was ‘adequate proof’ to help that Ms Doust crossed skilled boundaries with pupil Dean Grey whereas she was principal at Narrabri Excessive.
The investigation discovered that Ms Doust privately messaged Dean and engaged in inappropriate dialog between April and August 2013 after sending him a Fb buddy request.
She has additionally been positioned on a not-to-be-employed checklist by the division.
Ms Doust has not been charged with any prison offences by NSW Police.
She was principal of Wee Waa Excessive College when the campus was shut down in 2020 after 50 college students and employees turned unwell with signs according to publicity to mould.
Sarah Mitchell, who was then NSW schooling minister was in common contact with Ms Doust on the time and in Might 2021, declared the principal was ‘doing a wonderful job supporting her employees, college students and neighborhood throughout this time’.
The minister additionally paid tribute to the principal’s management in NSW parliament.
‘I acknowledge Annabel because the principal and pay tribute to her for her management throughout what’s an extremely difficult time – there isn’t a doubt about that,’ Ms Mitchell stated.
There isn’t a suggestion Ms Mitchell had any information of Ms Doust’s relationship with Dean Grey.
A month later, the minister visited the area to announce a brand new highschool can be constructed.
‘Some youngsters have discovered it extraordinarily troublesome,’ Ms Doust instructed the ABC on the time.
‘However youngsters are fairly resilient. I consider our Wee Waa youngsters are notably resilient.’
Dean’s mother and father welcomed the information of Ms Doust’s dismissal by the schooling division.
Annabel Doust was recognised by the then-education minister in state parliament in 2021
Dean Grey is pictured along with his mom, Cherina Grey, in 2013 – the 12 months he began having intercourse along with his instructor
‘I feel this can be a good final result – fully acceptable and that she is to not be re-employed. That’s a victory for Dean,’ his mum Cherina Grey stated.
Her husband Rob added it was ‘a little bit of justice for Dean’, however added: ‘It’s been hell for the household since 2016. And it’s been extraordinarily arduous on the household.
‘It has been an enormous rollercoaster trip for us all – we’ve had our downs. We felt just like the police had allow us to down relating to the proof we handed to them.’
It was solely after Dean’s demise that his mother and father began going by means of his cellphone and located as much as 6,000 Fb messages between him and the instructor – despatched between April and July 2013.
The texts – obtained by Each day Mail Australia – confirmed the pair enthusiastically talked about their exploits all through the course of their three-month relationship.
Each day Mail Australia has contacted Ms Doust for remark.
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