Ballet teacher sentenced for abducting boy
Sarah Pirie, 27, committed a “serious breach of trust” when they met and she gave him a lift in her car a week after she was banned from having any contact with him.
The defendant was also accused of having sex with the boy but prosecutors decided in November to offer no evidence on those allegations. Her victim, Reece Washington, claimed in an article that they had sex on the backseat of her car.
Sentencing her at Preston Crown Court, Judge Michael Byrne accepted there was no sexual activity between the pair –— who met at Clifton Dance Academy in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire — but told her she “went past the boundaries of your employment”.
Pirie, who now lives in Luxembourg, was jailed for 35 weeks, suspended for two years, after she admitted a charge of child abduction.
Her conviction will effectively make a ban from working with children permanent.
