A teacher caught having an affair with her 17-year-old pupil is now living with him in her marital home, two months after being placed on the sex offenders’ register.
Eppie Sprung Dawson, 27, lost her job and her marriage after being discovered half-naked in a layby with teenager Matthew Robinson.
She narrowly escaped a prison sentence and is now working behind a bar in Dumfries.
But she has moved the boy she was caught with into her house, to the distress of his parents who are appealing to him to come home.
Matthew, now 18, left his parents’ farmhouse last week after a row with his mother over failing to tidy his room. He is now living with his former teacher and they fear he may not return.
The teenager’s mother, Sheree Robinson, said: ‘We had a normal family row about his room being untidy and he just left. He rang Eppie to come and pick him up.
‘We don’t know what she is after and what is in her mind.
‘I think the whole family are still in shock. You send your child to school and you expect them to to be safe.
‘She is a sex offender – she has abused her power and her position to gain the trust of a child and to do this.
‘Given he was 17 when this happened, she should have gone to jail.’
The young teacher’s affair was exposed when they were caught together in her car following a school dance last December.
The pair were half-naked when police knocked on the window and she pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a person under 18 while she was in a position of trust and his teacher.