Gaye Grant, who is now in her late 70s, was jailed for six years in late 2022 for abusing boy in 1970s
The NSW court of criminal appeal has upheld Gaye Grant’s appeal and quashed her conviction for historical child sexual abuse.The NSW court of criminal appeal has upheld Gaye Grant’s appeal and quashed her conviction for historical child sexual abuse.A former NSW teacher has had a historical child sex abuse conviction quashed, becoming the second person to successfully argue women could not be legally responsible for the crime under laws in place at the time.
Gaye Grant, who is now in her late 70s, was jailed as a paedophile in December 2022 for abusing a boy in the 1970s after pleading guilty to maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship with a child.After the boy tried to distance himself from the teacher in the late 1970s, she wrote to him saying she loved him.
The allegations against Lam were thrown out in a landmark judgment that said women could not be legally responsible for abusing boys under previous laws that only covered male offenders.She was previously released on bail after a court found the ex-teacher could likely overturn her conviction because of the Lam judgment.
The appeal win voids her district court conviction which led to a six-year jail sentence being imposed. That sentence had been due to expire in September 2029.
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