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Amanda Louise Thompson
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June 06, 2007 01:00am
BRISBANE high school teacher Amanda Louise Thompson was yesterday
ordered to stand trial on almost 230 charges of sexually abusing a
female student over a two-year period.
Despite Thompson's arrest by detectives on March 14 last year,
Queensland laws prohibited naming her until Magistrate Basil Gribbin
yesterday ruled there was sufficient evidence to order she stand
trial.
Thompson, now 26, stood stoney-faced as Mr Gribbin asked her if she
wanted to say anything before she was committed for trial or wished to
enter a plea to the charges.
In a quiet voice, Thompson simply replied: "No, thank you."
Thompson stands charged with 229 counts of indecently dealing with a
child under 16 and in her care.
In a four-day part-heard committal hearing, which started in November
and finally concluded yesterday, the Beenleigh Magistrate's Court was
told Thompson was seen by witnesses hugging, kissing, fondling and
having oral sex with the girl, then aged between 14 and 16, and plying
her with liquor.
The court was told that Thompson's then husband had become concerned
about his wife's relationship with the student when he frequently
found them lying in closed rooms or under a blanket upon his arrival
home from work.
Prosecutors allege Thompson repeatedly slept in the same bed as the
girl at her Boronia Heights home, 30km south of Brisbane, and also at
the student's family home.
Mr Gribbin granted Thompson conditional bail and remanded her for
trial in the Beenleigh District Court on a date to be fixed.
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