Teachers are fighting back again the worrying trend of students “upskirting” teachers in the classroom in Northern Ireland.
It comes as the NASUWT welcomed the guilty verdict against a secondary pupil who took covert upskirt photos of two of its members at a school in Co Fermanagh.
The pupil was aged 14 and 15 at the time he captured the footage of two female teachers in 2015 and 2016. He was found guilty on all counts of committing an act of a lewd, obscene and disgusting nature and outraging public decency.
The NASUWT had pressed for the Public Prosecution Service to take action against the pupil. While welcoming the verdict, the case highlighted the inadequacy of current legal protections in Northern Ireland, the union said.
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