In extracts from messages read to the jury, the mentor told the teenager: 'I can't have you and you know why,' later suggesting the pair could 'go for drives' together.Īs their 'relationship' progressed, Cadman-Smith told the boy: 'OMG, I'm falling for you and thinking about things I probably shouldn't ' The jury heard the mentor had texted the boy from her personal mobile and the pair initially shared 'emotional and supportive messages.'īut 'within an-hour-and-a-half,' Cadman-Smith began telling the boy she had been 'thinking about him non-stop,' the court was told. 'She told the boy she 'had feelings' for him but that she couldn't 'have him.'' they thought they were in some kind of relationship. They were covering up their behaviour at school. Prosecuting, Mary Aspinall-Miles said she had been working at the school since 2017 and was a 'progress mentor'. They began meeting in her car, but hid their 'relationship' when they were in school. The court heard she and her victim developed a connection after she started supporting him.
Instead, a rare 'trial of issue' case was held in her absence in which the jury was asked to decide whether or not she had done 'the act.'Īfter just three minutes of deliberation, a jury decided that she had.
The mentor was charged with engaging in sexual communication with a child.īut, now aged 24, Cadman-Smith, who suffers from 'extreme anxiety', was deemed 'not mentally fit enough' to enter a plea or stand trial. Cadman-Smith was a mentor at the Cowes Enterprise College (pictured) responsible for supporting pupils' 'behaviour, mental health and learning difficulties', the court heard
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