Primary teacher charged with child rape
Updated on 20 May 2009
A primary school teacher has been charged with repeatedly raping and sexually assaulting a young girl.
Robert Stringer, 56, of Hertfordshire, will appear at Uxbridge Magistrates Court on June 4 accused of raping the girl three times and touching her sexually a further eight times between June and December 2007.
Stringer also faces claims that he indecently assaulting a second girl between 1999 and 2000.
The drama and class teacher was sacked earlier this year from Canonbury Primary School in Islington, north London, whose pupils include one of London Mayor Boris Johnson's children and a child of Transport Minister Lord Adonis.
Stringer was sacked after it emerged he was being investigated for showing the film Shakespeare in Love, including sex scenes, to children at another school.
The school's headteacher Jay Henderson was sacked this month after being caught watching pornography on the internet at work.
The majority of governors at the school resigned earlier this year after claims that teachers were not properly vetted. An inquiry is under way.
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