A TWENTY-TWO-YEAR old male teacher of a private school on East Bank Demerara, who is being accused of rape, reportedly, gave the 14-year-old female student birth control pills after he had unprotected sex with her.

During an exclusive interview with the Guyana Chronicle Monday afternoon, the teenager, who is not a Guyanese, said she and her teacher had oral followed by penetrative sex on the school premises.
She said the man is her Mathematics and Information Technology teacher but, when contacted at his home last week, the man told this newspaper that the girl was 17 years old although he did not admit they had sexual relations.
However, a birth certificate which was seen by this publication and confirms that the teen was not born in Guyana verified that she is 14 years old.
Asked how the actual intimate connection began between her and the teacher, she said, when she first started out at the school in January, it was pointed out that she was weak in the two subject areas the teacher teaches.

Extra lessons
She said he offered to assist her with the two subjects and that assistance was going to come through extra lessons.
The teenager explained that there would be times when she alone would be attending the lessons and, at other times, there were other students. But, on most occasions, she is, usually, the only one with the teacher.
This newspaper was told by the girl, in the presence of her guardian, that, at one time in the class, the teacher reached and began touching her legs and she protested and he stopped.
But the following day he repeated the action and she allowed him to continue and, a week after, she and the teacher had unprotected sexual intercourse following which she was given the birth control pills.
According to her, when they were finished and she ventured out from where the act took place, her clothes were not properly fixed and another student questioned her about her condition and what she was doing with the teacher.
She said the schoolmate then cautioned her that she should be careful and, when she enquired the reason for her colleague’s advice, she was told that the same teacher tried to have sex with her in the past and she refused.
The 14-year-old said she, immediately, attempted to report the matter to the headteacher but the other child did not want her to do so, because her name would be part of the complaint and she was afraid of her parents finding out about her encounter with the teacher.
Kept secret
The ordeals were then kept secret until the guardian of the 14-year-old observed that each time she went to pick the girl up from school, she and the teacher were having eye contact and she suspected the two were too close.
The suspicion was raised with the headteacher and discomfort of the guardian was investigated.
The student said she then confronted the teacher about the allegations which were being made and he denied them before admitting that he did make advances to the girl sometime ago.
He then called them together and asked them if they had a problem with the fact that he was interested in both of them to which they responded in the negative.
However the two girls are no longer friends.
Asked what would have caused her to have sex with the teacher, the confessing student said the man would, usually, listen to her problems and was kind to her. She said she was not looking to have a kind of relationship he wanted since he has a girlfriend working at one of the commercial banks on Camp Street, something she was able to verify by scanning his mobile phone and another gadget.
She said she is embarrassed by what has happened but her parents who reside out of Guyana are not aware of the developments, neither is the diplomatic office here which represents the interests of persons from her country.
Meanwhile, the Police who have been investigating the alleged statutory rape since last week, have not reported it to the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security nor the Child Care and Protection Agency.
Earlier Monday, though, the student was taken to a counselling centre where she was tested for HIV.

(By Leroy Smith)