When he was interviewed by police, Shotton said he only knew the boy vaguely and he had been sent to him on one occasion when he had been naughty.
Shotton, of The Twitten, Albourne, near Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex, said he was shocked by the allegations and denied being alone with the boy during lunchtimes.
After an article about the teacher appeared in a local newspaper, two other victims came forward separately and independently to report similar allegations.
Prosecutor Patricia Lees told the jury: “Was it either an enormous coincidence or three people recalling very similar events from their past?”
She said the second boy had told a friend what had happened to him nearly a year before the newspaper article was written, the jury heard.
Likewise, the third boy had told his girlfriend what had happened to him before the story was published.
More Suspect Teachers from the so called Good Old Days12
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School Discipline References10
Employed at Montem Primary in Hornsey Road, London, N7 was slipper-mad Mr. Jarvis. Does anyone remember Mr Jarvis a...
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Cane and Parents Watching5
I don’t recall any kid at my primary getting whacked with their Dad or Mum there. Parents weren’t all...
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Corporal Punisment Memories School6
It was called Secondary Modern Discipline by Richard Farley, and though (at that stage) Farley certainly believed the cane had a...
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Mrs Wilkins51
All during church, the two boys had warm bottoms to remind them what had just happened and what was...
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Corporal Punisment Memories School23
The school I did my first teaching practice at routinely violated the regulations that did apply to the strap...
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The Discipline of Females25
We left unmarked! She however was summonsed and presented with the evidence. That oh so obvious choice.. expulsion or...
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From Icy to Hot2
On my way home from school one day with my friend Hanna, we passed the frozen pond. I really...
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An Abusive Act1
Having experienced formal CP in school on one occasion(now notorious no doubt)and also seen several instances of ‘informal’ CP...