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BARRIE -- Stories of steamy sexual encounters between a high school teacher and her teenaged student who is claiming $2.5-million in damages are unfounded, a lawyer said yesterday.
The student, now 22, happens to be the twin brother of the boy whose allegations brought another teacher, Laura Sclater, to trial for similar charges five years ago.
"These are serious allegations," said Toronto lawyer Bill Markle. "It has been very tough on my client."
His client, Amy Mullins, a teacher at St. Peter's high school in Barrie, is accused of luring the twin brother into sexual encounters while he was a 16-year-old Grade 11 student and also during his first year of college.
"Mullins and the plaintiff had sex ... throughout the plaintiff's high school years," says a statement of claim filed against the teacher and the Simcoe Muskoka Catholic District School Board.
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"Mullins' classes were taught in a portable and she would often lock the ... door and perform oral sex on the plaintiff during school hours," the document says.
It also alleges the teacher invited several teens to her apartment where she gave them alcohol and encouraged them to have sex in her washroom while she had sex with the teen in her bedroom.
But a statement of defence filed with the court flatly denies the accusations.
"Mullins denies that she made sexual advances toward the plaintiff, induced him to engage in sexual touching ... or any conduct of a sexual nature of any kind," it says.
The incidents are alleged to have begun while the twin was a student at the school in September 2000 -- the same time that his brother was part of the prosecution against Sclater.
Barrie police are investigating the complaints, but no charges have been laid. The Simcoe Muskoka school board has removed Mullins from the classroom.