Gaye Grant is appealing in the Court of Criminal Appeal for her conviction to be quashed.
Having pleaded guilty to maintaining an unlawful sexual relationship with a child, a former teacher now wants the conviction overturned on the basis she cannot be held legally responsible due to her gender.
Boland said while it was open for the court to return Grant's case to the District Court for the purpose of a new trial, the preferred course was for the conviction to be simply dismissed. After the boy tried to distance himself from the teacher in the late 1970s, she wrote to him saying she loved him.
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