A TEACHER who repeatedly had sex with a pupil in her car called the girl “bubs” in love texts and sent her lewd videos, a court heard.
Ellie Pattison, 29, is accused of tricking the “vulnerable” 14-year-old into believing they were in love.
Ellie Pattison called the teen pupil ‘bubs’, the court heard
The teacher allegedly twice had sex with the girl in her car and in two of her friend’s homes.
Pattison also allegedly repeatedly touched the teen and kissed her after they began meeting outside her school.
Hove Crown Court heard how the East Sussex teacher sent the girl a lewd video where she performed a sex act on herself.
The pair had set up cameras in their bedrooms so they could see each other at night, jurors were told.
Pattison also allegedly sent the girl a string of texts after they formed an “intimate” relationship.
In one, she said she was looking forward to “lying in your arms feeling you breathing”.
Pattison also wrote about sorting out a hotel room “if we can find someone who will say you are staying at theirs”.
The girl later replied: “You are my world, my life, my Beyonce. I can’t wait to spend the rest of my life with you, get married to you, have kids with you….my wifey for lifey”.
The teacher also allegedly expressed her love for the girl, who called her “baby girl”.
In return, Pattison allegedly replied: “I’ve got who I want…..bubs.”
Pattison, who worked as a teaching assistant in East Sussex, was 23 at the time of the alleged offences and in a relationship.
Jurors heard she had the added responsibility of looking after children who were in care while at the secondary school.
Giving evidence today, the pupil – now aged 20 – broke down as she told how she believed Pattison loved her.
She told jurors the teacher convinced her they were in a serious relationship and would regularly meet outside school and have sex.
She said: “We done it more in the car than anywhere else. Most of the time it was in the car because she wanted to hide it.
“She didn’t want other people to know what was going on between us because she knew it would get her into trouble.”
But James Oliveira-Agnew, defending, put her claims down as a “fantasy”.
The court heard the alleged abuse came to light when a friend of the girl saw the pair kissing in the car and raised the alarm.
When bosses at the school discovered Pattison had been meeting the vulnerable girl, she was suspended.
Her partner Naomi Tregear reported the “inappropriate relationship” to police when she also found out.
She said in her evidence how Pattison told her “too far” when she asked how far sexually she had gone with the girl.
Ms Tregear added: “There was also conversation about another teacher form another school who was sentenced for sexual charges with a student.
“It was mentioned he got sentenced to eight years. Ellie then texted me saying: ‘Eight years, I won’t come out alive’.”
Pattison denies three counts of penetrative sexual activity with a girl aged between the age of 13 and 15.
She has also pleaded not guilty to two further charges of non-penetrative sexual activity with the child at various locations.
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