Another Paedophile School Teacher put away

Peter Carne

Threesome teacher jailed
February 25, 2005
From: AAP
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12366631-26618,00.html

A MELBOURNE teacher who had a three-way relationship with two teenage female students was sentenced to seven years' jail in the Victorian County Court today.

Peter Donald Carne, of Hennessey Way, Dandenong was an English and drama teacher when he began a relationship with a 16-year-old student after he started counselling her over her behaviour, the court heard.

After they started their affair, the 45-year-old father of three and the girl became involved in a three-way relationship with another student at the school, then aged 15.

At the time Carne was teaching at a public school in Melbourne's east in 2002.
Carne was given a minimum sentence of five years' prison after pleading guilty to 10 charges including committing an indecent act with a 16-year-old under his supervision or care, three counts of sexual penetration with a 16-year-old under his supervision or care, three counts of sexual penetration with a child under 16 years old, committing an indecent act in the presence of a child under 16 and transmitting and possessing child pornography.

Judge Carolyn Douglas said Carne's conduct undermined the public's confidence in the teaching profession and the trust of his teaching colleagues.
She said Carne was a well-educated man in a position of authority who knew the girls were vulnerable.

She said she had taken into account Carne's remorse and the fact that he would have to live with the embarrassment and the humiliation of his fall from grace.