A former principal in Tasmania is sentenced to a home detention order over the persistent sexual abuse of a student in the 1980s.
David Billing was sentenced to a home detention order in the Hobart Supreme Court , for the persistent sexual abuse of a student.David John Billing, 76, was a teacher and boarding house master at a Tasmania n public school when he met his victim who he sexually abused 10 times when she was aged 16.
David John Billing, 76, was sentenced in the Hobart Supreme Court today after pleading guilty to the offence which occurred over 10 separate occasions in the 1980s.The offending occurred when she was aged 16 and he was aged 34 or 35.The court was told they appeared to have a consensual "relationship" that continued after she turned 17 years of age, but that the victim later realised she had been groomed by Billing "under the guise of being a caring teacher".
The court heard the matter was reported to Tasmania's Education Department, but Billing remained employed.
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