Teacher Kisses 13-Year-Old Girl and Walks Free

Music teacher, Sam Webb admitted charges of sexual activity with a thirteen year old girl. The teacher did not serve active jail time for his crime.

Webb was a highly respected music master who worked in schools in the Kent area. He also worked as a special needs counselor who discusses personal problems at Hartsdown College in Margate.

Directing school plays and giving music lessons put Webb in the midst of hundreds of students. Thousands more children were exposed to Webb after he received a job promotion as an "advanced skills teacher" in the fall of 2004.

An embarrassment to Webb's former school where he was popular with students, the case has stirred suspicion and concern in parents. Hartsdown College has deleted all links and references to Webb from the site. Since Webb's first appearance in court last year, the school's official position has been "no comment."

The thirty-four year old father of one child sent an astonishing 2000 text messages to the girl's cellular phone. His actions were discovered as a result of the increase in the girl's cell phone bill. Prosecutor Simon Clark told Canterbury Crown Court how the girl's parents were shocked by the sudden increase. The girl's mother investigated the reason her daughter's bill was over eight times higher than average.

Clark informed the court that Webb met the child last year when his estranged wife, who is also a teacher, introduced them at a drama club. Webb extended an invitation for the girl to join activities at his school and succeeded in getting the teen's cell phone number. Clark said Webb's first contact on a kids Internet chat room was "perfectly innocent." Later, text messages became "more flirtatious" when he asked the girl to clean his office.