Educating Cardiff teacher given suspended sentence after sexually assaulting teenager
Summary
Gareth Ritter, a 44-year-old former teacher featured in Educating Cardiff, received a 33-month prison sentence suspended for 30 months after admitting sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl in 2015. The judge said Ritter abused the teenager’s trust; Ritter must complete 250 hours of community service and will be on the sex offenders’ register for life.Key Facts
- Ritter changed his plea to guilty during his trial in October.
- The assault took place after Ritter offered to drive the teenager home from an event in Cardiff.
- The court heard that Ritter took the teenager to a flat he owned in Cardiff Bay, where he touched and kissed her.
- Ritter had also admitted two counts of making an indecent image of a child and one count of distributing such an image.
- Police found intimate images of a young woman under 18 on Ritter’s phone and tablet while investigating an unrelated incident.
- The victim told police about the assault after they contacted her about the images.
- The judge said he had grave reservations about Ritter’s remorse and described the assault as an abuse of trust.
- A further hearing will consider court costs, a restraining order and a sexual harm prevention order.
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