Teacher, 56, called pupil a sex goddess' in social media messages

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"Between May 2022 and October 2022, he exchanged text messages with the pupil, in which he described her as a temptress, referred to their conversations as juicy and asked for her to send him a photo of her in a towel. After creating a TikTok account to follow her, he asked her to go hiking together and told her about his dreams of kissing her all over her body, cuddling with no clothes on and having sex with her."

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