Private school matron 'gave 12-year-old pupil Mars bars in exchange for sex'

Incident in 1980s allegedly covered up by the school

St Andrew’s Prep School, East Sussex (Google Maps)

A private prep school matron conducted an illicit sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy in which she gave him Mars bars in exchange for sex, a court reportedly heard.

Tiffany Carter, 46, allegedly got into bed with the pupil at St Andrew’s Prep School in East Sussex in the 1980s, when she was a 17-year-old junior matron at the boarding school.

Lewes Crown Court heard the liaison was discovered at the time by the child’s mother after he called her to say he was worried about the possibility of having contracted Aids.

But it was claimed the school tried to cover up the scandal and did not inform the police.

The pupil’s mother told the court the school put pressure on her not to contact the police, according to MailOnline.

“'I didn't get the name of the woman. The school wanted to keep it confidential," the boy’s mother said.

“They said it was best for it not to be expanded any further or legal proceedings taken because my son was about to go to college.”

Pia Abbott, the wife of a former house master at the school, told the court the pupil claimed he had had sex with Carter in exchange for chocolate.

She said: “The boy's mother called me and said she's had him on the phone saying he's 'done something bad’.

“Then she just came out with how he said 'he's been having sex with a junior matron and she's been paying him in Mars bars and I want it to stop'."

The victim began a civil law suit against the school in 2015, the court heard.

Carter was arrested in 2014 for the alleged offences. She denies three counts of gross indecency with a child, and two charges of indecent assault of a boy aged under 14, which are alleged to have occurred between September 1986 and April 1987.