Australian teacher has sex with student after school drink binge

A female teacher in Australia, who had sex with a student after a night of drinking, has been deregistered.

Ainsley Greer Gregson, who had joined students for a year 12 end-of-year function at a pub in December 2008, had made plans to stay at the house of another teacher, but ended up drinking till about 1am.

She then left the hotel with a group of students who took alcohol to a park.
 
A Victorian Institute of Teaching disciplinary panel was told Gregson and a year-11 male student returned to the hotel car park at about 3am and had consensual sex in the back of his car.

Gregson said she that she had been drunk and did not remember having sex with the 18-year-old student, but she didn't dispute his evidence.

"He told the panel that the incident affected him emotionally and socially, and he had counselling," the Courier Mail quoted a decision published by the VIT.

Gregson lost her job at the school after a staff member told the principal about "some untoward behaviour" between her and the student.

"The panel noted that it believed that the sexual intercourse was not anticipated or planned by the teacher, and was not predatory in any way," the decision said.

"She had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol resulting in vomiting a couple of hours prior to the sexual activity," it added.

The panel found that Gregson had crossed a professional boundary and was guilty of serious misconduct.