Screen shots of messages, a suspicious boyfriend and a penis picture were all taken into consideration when extending a Queensland teacher's suspension.
The teacher, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was suspended earlier in the year by the Queensland College of Teachers after it decided he posed an unacceptable risk of harm to children.
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It was alleged the teacher had a sexual relationship with a student who attended the school at which he taught.
A tribunal heard the student's then-boyfriend became suspicious she was seeing someone else, so he looked through her phone where he found text messages as well as messages on KIK and Snapchat, and a photograph of a penis.
When he confronted the girl, he said she told him she had been messaging the teacher and that their relationship began during the fourth term of 2015.
The ex-boyfriend said she told him the relationship became sexual following after school tutoring sessions, but they put the relationship on ice when the allegations came to light in the school community.
In Facebook conversations, the girl told her ex-boyfriend she and the teacher restarted their relationship in early 2016.
While the girl denied the sexual relationship in a statement to QCAT, the boy provided screenshots of thier conversation to the tribunal.
In its decision to continue the teacher's suspension, the tribunal said the untested evidence contained significant and serious allegations,.