A sex shame teacher struck off over her affair with a pupil has bagged public funding to set up a support group for fellow criminals.Eppie Sprung – who was caught in a lay-by with a 17-year-old boy – is speaking out about how being a convicted sex offender has impacted her life in a candid blog as she heads up her new organisation.Now the 37-year-old’s venture has been handed thousands from the public purse through a grant from the National Lottery Community Fund, which she says will help those with criminal records “navigate discrimination”.On her blog, Sprung writes: “I’m Eppie, mum, wife, daughter, sister, friend, volunteer, business owner and sex offender.
That’s not something that’s comfortable to write and it’s certainly not something that’s comfortable to live with.“But here we are.
I made a series of bad decisions a long time ago that hurt a lot of people and led to me living with the title of ‘sex offender’ for the rest of my life.”The former English teacher – then married and using the name Sprung Dawson – offered dyslexic Matthew Robinson help with lessons at the Catholic St Joseph’s College in Dumfries.But she was caught half-naked with him in a lay-by by police following a school dance in 2012.
The fling cost Sprung her job and ended her two-year marriage to her lecturer husband Ranald.She then moved her lover into the marital home – to the fury of his family.
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