Married mother-of-two dance teacher, 48, who bombarded boy, 13, with ‘intense sexual’ WhatsApps begging him to be ‘touchy’ around her is SPARED jail after judge hears she was in unhappy marriage
- Dance teacher Jennifer Hesse, 48, sent warped sexual texts to a 13-year-old boy
- Mother-of-two abused her position of trust and became fixated on the teenager
- The boy’s mother found out and called police on Hesse, of Bournemouth, Dorset
- Hesse was found guilty of sexual communication with a child but spared prison
A dance teacher who sent an abundance of sexual messages to a 13-year-old boy in her class containing ‘outpourings of love’ has been spared jail.
Jennifer Hesse, 48, became obsessed with the boy she taught privately in Bournemouth, Dorset.
The married mother-of-two abused her position of trust and secretly sent him ‘intensely sexual’ Whatsapp messages.
She encouraged the boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, to be ‘touchy’ around her – despite him telling her to leave him alone.
In one message she told him: ‘I need you to be touchy all the time.’
Hesse then warned the ’embarrassed’ youth to quickly delete the messages so that his parents would not discover them.
Jennifer Hesse, 48, pictured outside Bournemouth Crown Court, was found guilty of sexual communication with a child to gain sexual gratification following a trial
She told him she felt ‘an odd combination of dizziness and calm’ and that she ‘could not breathe’ when he was with her.
The exchange of messages culminated in Hesse repeatedly telling him that she loved him.
When the victim told Hesse that he had a girlfriend and wanted the ‘relationship’ to stop, she became jealous and pressured him to carry it on.
Hesse told the 13-year-old boy: ‘I want you to be able to love me exactly the way I need’
It came to a stop when the boy’s mother discovered the messages and went to the police.
Hesse was found guilty of sexual communication with a child to gain sexual gratification following a trial in which the victim was forced to give evidence and was sentenced at Bournemouth Crown Court.
Nicola Talbot-Hadley, prosecuting, said: ‘The victim gave evidence in which he rejected that he had a crush on Mrs Hesse and the jury also rejected this version of events.
‘The jury were given a great deal of messages between them. It was extremely intense and emotionally pressurising.
‘It often took place late at night and the defendant was under the influence of alcohol some of the time.
‘The messages were sexualised and there was reference to “touch and tease”. She repeatedly told him she loved him.’
The court heard that the victim eventually told the dance tutor he had a girlfriend.
Hesse was handed a suspended prison sentence as the judge chided her for treating the 13-year-old boy as a ‘romantic figure’ who she subjected to ‘outpourings of love’
Hesse then responded: ‘You are 13 and do not have the capacity for that yet.. I want you to be able to love me exactly the way I need.’
Mrs Talbot-Hadley went on: ‘This was an abuse of trust.
‘It became his “new normal” that he had to deal with such intense and pressurised messages. They left him stressed out and embarrassed.
‘It is clear that he did not want to go to the dance school through fear of meeting Mrs Hesse.’
Hesse gave a letter to the judge in which she explained she had ‘trouble understanding boundaries’.
Addressing her victim’s family in court, she said she had overstepped boundaries ‘again and again’.
She said: ‘This feels unforgivable and breaks my heart. I would like to step back in time and change what I have done. All I can do now is work on my mental health and make sure I never make the same mistake again.’
Hesse was found guilty after a trial at Bournemouth Crown Court (pictured) and given a 12 month prison sentence suspended for 18 months, with 100 hours of unpaid work and placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years
Audrey Archer, mitigating, said that Hesse was suffering from ‘unacknowledged depression and childhood trauma’ and suffered from an unhappy marriage during the period of the offending.
Judge Richard Onslow chided Hesse for treating the 13-year-old boy as a ‘romantic figure’ who she subjected to ‘outpourings of love’.
He said: ‘You were treating him as a romantic figure knowing all the while that he was 13. You bombarded him with messages and would not listen when he said, “please stop”.
‘You put a heavy burden on him to satisfy what you perceived to be your needs. Some of these messages were for the purposes of sexual gratification.’
Hesse was given a 12 month prison sentence suspended for 18 months.
She must also complete 100 hours of unpaid work and has been placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years.
Hesse was given a restraining order and a sexual harm prevention order forbidding her from contacting boys under 16 without the consent of their parents for five years.
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