Paedophile Kandice Barber's speaks out after she is banned from classroom
The ex-partner of a paedophile teacher banned from the classroom for life after being jailed says her ban is “no more than she deserves”.
Kandice Barber, now 38, was jailed for six years and two months in 2021 after being convicted of grooming a 15-year-old and having sex with him in a field. Yesterday the Teaching Regulation Agency handed out a lifelong ban as they ruled her preying on a young boy had demonstrated a “callous and selfish disregard for her pupil’s well-being” and “the public would rightly be appalled by her behaviour”.
Barber's behaviour came to light when a topless picture she had sent her victim was seen by so many people it ended up on the head’s desk. The supply teacher from Wendover, Buckinghamshire, even threatened her victim she would “take him down” if he told her bosses what had been going on. The trial judge blasted the mum of three as 'beyond despicable' for seducing the boy with topless photos and explicit messages while teaching him at Princes Risborough School.
Her ex-husband Danny Barber told MailOnline : “Her disqualification from teaching is exactly what any parent would expect to happen, no other outcome would have been tolerated.
"If she had continued her path in teaching as she started it I'm sure she would have gone on to have a very good career, but she did something unthinkable that devastated so many lives.
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“Now you can only say she is no loss to the profession after what she did to that young boy, his family and the repercussions it has brought on her own family.”
Barber was banned for having sex with a pupil (Facebook)
The disgraced teacher arriving in court with her ex partner, Danny (PA)Susanne Staab, who chaired the Teaching Regulation Agency hearing, said: “In 2018, Ms Barber was 33 years old and working as a form tutor and cover supervisor at the School. In 2019, police investigated an allegation that she had groomed a 15-year-old male pupil, had sex with him, and sent him sexual communications.
“The sexual communications included a video of her engaging in sexual activity, and a message containing a sexual innuendo sent while they were both in school, during which Ms Barber referred to teaching him. Ms Barber was charged with three offences and pleaded not guilty. After the trial, she was convicted and sentenced to a total of six years and two months in prison and was the subject of an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.
(PA)“In sentencing her, the trial judge noted that she had made threats to the child in order to prevent him from disclosing what had happened, and had sought to manipulate him. The child had become withdrawn and confined himself to his room as a result. She communicated with him in an inappropriate and sexually suggestive manner during the school day, while in class, sending him a message saying ‘You cannot make me blush while I am teaching now, poker face lol’.
“The panel had no doubt the public would have perceived Ms Barber as her victim’s teacher, and that her conduct towards him constituted a gross breach of trust and abuse of position. Her grooming and sexual exploitation of him was followed by threats and manipulation, demonstrating a callous and selfish disregard for her pupil’s well-being. The public would rightly be appalled by her behaviour.”
Sarah Buxcey, for the Education Secretary, added: "The panel decided the public interest considerations outweighed the interests of Ms Barber. Her conduct was so egregious and harmful as to be fundamentally incompatible with her being allowed to teach in future.”
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