Former teacher at St Anne’s Catholic School and Sixth Form College charged with multiple sex offences against three students

An investigation has been launched into non-recent sex offences at St Anne’s Catholic School and Sixth Form College, in Carlton Road, Southampton, over a five year period.

As a result, Leo Norman, of Peartree Avenue, Southampton, has been charged with four counts of abuse of position of trust, sexual activity with a girl, one count of abuse of position of trust and causing or inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity.

The 45-year-old is a former teacher at the school and the charges relate to offences that are alleged to have taken place between 2014 and 2019 against three teenage girls.

Norman is due to appear at Portsmouth Magistrates’ Court on Monday, July 7.

The investigation comes following enquiries of child sexual abuse by those in a position of power against former pupils at St Anne’s Catholic School and Sixth Form College.

Multiple teachers who previously worked at the school have been charged with sexual offences including James Edwin Rouse, a former headteacher, who was charged with sexual activity with a child. A trial date has been set to start for Rouse on November 3 and he has been released on conditional bail until then

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