College sex scam exposed

 By FRANKIY KAPIN

A female student assaulted by a teacher’s wife after exposing a teacher-student sex scam has agreed to an out-of-court settlement, police said.

According to the student, the assault stemmed from an alleged sexual abuse by a male teacher. 

Police in Kokopo said the incident happened at the Kokopo Business College in East New Britain and was  reported to the station on April 24. 

Kokopo police confirmed that the matter had been reported to them and both parties agreed to an out-of-court settlement.

Police said the alleged sexual abuse had been referred to the school administration and board to deal with.

The student told police she had given her assignment to the teacher to check but he told her later that the only way she would get the assignment back was to have sex with him.

Students at the college were aware of the practice by some teachers, alleging that male students were sometimes asked to pay K50 or more to get their exam results.

A lecturer at the college has confirmed the incident report has been prepared and a copy forwarded to the principal after the incident occurred. 

A concerned parent said the reason his son had to redo a subject this year was not because he failed academically but because he refused to pay a K50 to attain results of the exams. 

The father said: “I have paid my sons school fee and on top of that, his tutor wants K50 in order for my son to get his exam results, I don’t see any relevance in that.”

He said he had two receipts for school fee and the K50 transcript with him. 

He said that was what happened to male students and the females were requested for sex for their results by their tutors.

When approached last week and this week for comment, college principal Gabriel Pamel said he was not aware of the incident and had not received a formal notification of the  sexual abuse.