French teacher given suspended sentence for affair with girl of 14

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A 31-year-old maths teacher who had a sexual relationship with a pupil aged 14 has been handed a suspended jail sentence and ordered to undergo counselling, just days after President Emmanuel Macron declared he was in favour of classifying an adult's sexual intercourse with a minor below the age of 15 as rape.

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A school teacher in France was handed a suspended sentence for sleeping with a 14-year-old pupil yesterday as the country grapples with changing the rules on underage sex, reports The Telegraph.