“He asked me to marry him when I was 16, many, many times, I always felt obligated,” AB had alleged. Judge Huggett sided with AB, finding that Dawson had groomed the teenager while she was still his pupil.ĪB said she began babysitting for Dawson when she was 16, often staying the night at Dawson’s house. The student, who can be identified only as AB, alleged Dawson had sexually abused her in 1980, when she was a 16-year-old pupil in one of his classes at Cromer High School in Sydney.ĭawson, who appeared in court via video link from Sydney’s Long Bay jail, had denied that, claiming he began the relationship with AB when she was 17 and no longer his student. He had long denied the murder, claiming Lynette had left him and their two young children before disappearing. He later married the student and had a child with her, but the pair later divorced.ĭawson was found guilty last year of murdering his first wife Lynette in a conviction that ended one of Australia’s longest-running cold cases. The charge relates to the same student Dawson began a new life with after murdering his wife Lynette in 1982. Judge Sarah Huggett of the Sydney Downing Centre District Court on Wednesday convicted Chris Dawson on a charge of “carnal knowledge upon a girl above the age of 10 and under the age of 17.” An Australian physical education teacher who murdered his wife so he could start a new life with a teenage student has been found guilty of sexual abuse.
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