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1 day agoTeaching assistant who spat at pupil is jailed for child cruelty
A teaching assistant was jailed for four years after being convicted of child cruelty involving spitting and pinching pupils.
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A former learning mentor who sexually abused five vulnerable teenage girls who came to him for support at school has been jailed for eight years. Emem Udaw, 51, touched the girls in intimate areas, made one of them touch him intimately and kissed another between 2002 and 2005 while he worked at Holland Park School in Kensington, west London.