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Child abusers, drug dealers as teachers in
Britain!
Wednesday March 28, 2012 11:19:09 PM,
IANS
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London: A number of convicted paedophiles, drug
dealers and violent thugs were among over 4,000 criminals who
applied for jobs in Britain as school teachers in one year.
The Criminal Records Bureau tipped off schools after running
checks - but there is no record of how many were hired, the Sun
reported Monday.
Over 50 of the offences uncovered were sex crimes. They included
four for indecent assaults on children. Eight other convictions
were for gross indecency, 12 for indecent exposure and 19 involved
prostitution.
Violent offences totalled 830. Of the 550 drug convictions among
would-be teachers, 14 were for supplying class A drugs like heroin
and cocaine. The list included 11 arson offences and two for
making threats to kill.
The bureau has insisted that many of the 4,098 applicants for
teaching posts who were red-flagged last year would have been
automatically barred.
Siobhan Freegard, founder of parenting website Netmums, said: "It
is shocking thousands of offenders are applying to work with
children when they have convictions for child sex attacks,
violence and drugs."
"Parents will be appalled," she added.
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