A former UK Catholic school teacher who used to dress and act like she was in a “Sabrina Carpenter video” was convicted Friday for the decades-old sex assaults of two students when they were just 14 or 15 — including one who said they had sex “about 20 or 30 times.”
Sally-Anne Bowen, who taught chemistry at Christ’s College in North London, wore a blank expression as the Harrow Crown Court jury handed down majority guilty verdicts finding her guilty of seven counts of indecent assault, The Guardian reported.
Bowen denied the claims made by the men, who said they were 14 or 15 at the time while she was in her mid-20s.
One accuser said he had sex with her “about 20 or 30 times” over several months, including at her home, and that he considered her his girlfriend and believed he was in love with her.
Bowen described the allegations as a “total fabrication” and “the workings of a fantasy.”
The second accuser alleged he and Bowen kissed in a cafe after he was “goaded” into it by other boys, and said he recalled touching her breasts.
Bowen said she had no idea who the accuser was, nor why the men were bringing the allegations decades after the incidents.
One of the accusers said he kept their relationship a secret because he wanted to protect her, and said she repeatedly told him he wasn’t allowed to tell anybody.
“I never, ever spoke to anyone about it,” he said. “I was always really aware, she drummed it into me. Years she got to teach because I remained silent.”
He told police that the episode resulted in “the destruction of my education.”
Bowen’s school attire was raised during cross-examination, with prosecutors saying she had a penchant for wearing “tight tops” and “mini skirts.”
She demonstrated the length of the skirts she’d wear for the jury, placing her hands a few inches above her knees.
“They were way shorter than I’m wearing now, they were not mini skirts,” she claimed, reminding jurors she was a young woman at the time.
“I wasn’t going to dress like Margaret Thatcher,” she said of the former UK leader.
Another former student testified that Bowen would act as if she was in “a Sabrina Carpenter video” while in the classroom, and “dressed and behaved more like my teenage female friends than the other teachers,” the outlet writes.
She denied having a relationship with the first complainant. “Absolutely not, no relationship whatsoever,” she said, characterizing the relationship as strictly “student-teacher.”
One pupil recalled for the jury an incident in her classroom where a boy was reading a “sex manual” — possibly the Kama Sutra, which he claimed Bowen flipped through while extolling “the merits of different sexual positions” to the students.
“I have never in my teaching career seen boys looking at a pornographic magazine – the only magazine that I ever confiscated was a football magazine,” she said.
Bowen will remain free on bail until her sentencing Nov. 20.

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