Woman teacher, 27, spared jail for having sex with 17-year-old pupil after she tells court she was abused when she was a teenager

Eppie Sprung Dawson, 27, was told she had breached a position of trust when she had sex with the boy in a layby near the remote village of Cummertrees, Dumfriesshire. The tryst with the pupil left her career at St Joseph's College, Dumfries, in ruins and destroyed her marriage to husband Ranald. Her agent David Finnie said that she had been abused when she was between 13 and 18 by a man 29 years her senior.