December 17, 2009
Teacher Jailed On Sex Charges Granted Retrial
Australian Associated Press - The AgeA former Melbourne teacher found guilty of making a 17-year-old student pregnant and paying for her abortion has been granted a retrial. Stephen Peter Morrow, 56, who worked as a physics teacher at an inner Melbourne girls' school, was last year jailed for a maximum of six years after he was convicted of nine counts of penetrating a 16- or 17-year-old child under his authority in the late 1990s. In a unanimous decision in the Victorian Court of Appeal, justices Robert Redlich, Geoffrey Nettle and Lex Lasry today quashed Morrow's convictions and ordered a retrial.
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