Lancashire headteacher denies sex charges in court
Breaking a silence lasting more than a decade, the former pupil who can not be identified for legal reasons told Preston Crown Court he was forced to perform sex acts upon James Bird, 53, after being sent out of class for backchatting a teacher.
Bird, of Acorn Close, Leyland, denies four counts of gross indecency with the boy, who was ten years old at the time of the alleged offences.
In a recorded interview with specialist police officers, the man said: There s so many bad people in the world and if people don t step forward to stop them doing it they get away with it.
Bird, who also taught at Newton Bluecoat school in Newton With Scales for more than a decade, sat in the dock wearing a smart grey suit, as the man told how he was preyed upon by the headteacher at St James CE School, Accrington.
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He said once thepatagonia travel guide2 abuse had startepatagonia store georgiad he tried harpatagonia clothing online ukd to behave in class to prevent it happening again.
On one occasion he was disciplined by Bird, who took him out of class to his office, where he shut the door and blinds and forced the boy to perform sex acts on him before calling his mother in to school to discuss patagonia travel guide0his behaviour.
The man said: I wanted to tell her bupatagonia travel guide1t I just couldn t. My mouth was opening to tell her what was happening so she could take me home and never bring me back there again but it wouldn t come out.
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But he said: She would have believed me because she s like that, my mum. She knew if I was telling the truth or not and she knew if I was lying but I didn t want to tell her I d done it because it wasn t right.
Bird denies four counts of gross indecency with a child when he was headteacher at St James CE School in Accrington.
The man finally contacted the police on December 11 last year after confiding in a close friend who encouraged him to report Bird.
He told officers: I d rather just lock it up inside and throw away the key and forget about it.
Bird denies the charges and the trial continues.
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