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To: E. Charters who wrote (81304)	1/30/2002 6:35:41 PM
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OK, I get it now, why wo many people "love" living in Canada: Sex case teacher ‘too drunk’ Michelle Nichols Mnichols@scotsman.com A TEACHER told police she could not remember if she had sex with a schoolboy because she had been too drunk at the time, a court heard yesterday. Amy Gehring, 26, told officers her encounter with the 15-year-old boy in a lavatory at a New Year’s Eve party was a "blur". She denies five counts of indecent assault against three schoolboys at the Surrey comprehensive where she was working as a supply teacher. The jury at Guildford Crown Court were yesterday read transcripts of police interviews with the Canadian teacher. She admitted being drunk at the party - which had taken place at a pupil’s parents’ house - behaving "inappropriately" and shutting herself in a toilet with the teenager. When WPC Mandy Smith, the arresting officer, asked if she had sex with the teenager, the biology teacher replied: "To be honest, I can’t remember. We talked about it later and thought that it could have been a possibility. I said that if anything happened, I’m sorry. He said, ‘I’m the one that’s sorry, I really shouldn’t have, we were drunk.’" Gehring also admitted "kissing and cuddling" another 15-year-old pupil she was "close" to, but denied having sex with him. When asked if she found him attractive she said: "If we were older, I think we would probably be a couple. "It’s a feeling I had, I probably shouldn’t have but you can’t help the way you feel." The teacher, who is said to have seduced pupils within six weeks of starting at the school in November 2000, gave her account to police of how she began socialising with the schoolchildren. She said: "The kids just kind of took me on. At the time it was hard. I’d been really lonely and it was hard to make friends here because I had moved all over teaching. I got attention, especially from the girls, I really liked that. I’ve never had girls like me before." During the interview on 16 February last year, after her arrest at her home in Hampton, west London, Gehring told how she was used to teachers in Canada being more relaxed with their pupils. She said: "Teachers are much friendlier at home, they’ve more contact with the kids. I’ve gone to teachers’ houses for dinner parties and hot tubs." But she said teachers did not sleep over at pupils’ houses as she acknowledged doing on a number of occasions. The trial continues. thescotsman.co.uk