Teacher Clayton Page jailed for child sex offences after online chats with child

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A South Australian teacher, who blamed his child sex offending on being 'bored', has been sentenced to more than four years in jail.

Former Adelaide schoolteacher Clayton Page has been jailed for sexual communication with a child on social media.

In August 2023, Page engaged in a conversation on social media with an undercover police officer, who was posing as a female child.Police then uncovered prior messages, from May 2022, of Page communicating with a child who had told him she was 12 years old. "You described role playing, with you playing the role of the school teacher … and the women playing the role of a less dominant and younger, more sexually-naive female," Judge Alexandrides said.He said Page told Dr Lim that "the conversations were likely to have occurred when you were unwell … or working from home during the COVID-19 pandemic".

"You said that normally you would stop if you were told the person was underage, but you believe that you did not this time because you were likely bored."

 

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