A teacher who forced two young girls to send him explicit pictures, had sex with them at his home and touched one at the back of class, has been jailed for 10 years. 

Father-of-one Tobias Yates subjected his two pupils to ‘manipulative and depraved’ sexual abuse at the Chellaston Academy in Derby. 

The 31-year-old filmed himself having sex with one of his victims, kept sex toys in his desk and made one hide in his car footwell as he drove her to his home for sex.

He also touched one of the girls at the back of the class while a trainee teacher taught the other pupils in the same room, and gave one victim children’s underwear.

Yates also made one of the girls call him ‘Daddy’ and ‘Sir’, Derby Crown Court heard. 

Father-of-one Tobias Yates, who subjected his two pupils to 'manipulative and depraved' sexual abuse at the Chellaston Academy in Derby, has been jailed for more than ten years

Father-of-one Tobias Yates, who subjected his two pupils to ‘manipulative and depraved’ sexual abuse at the Chellaston Academy in Derby, has been jailed for more than ten years 

Jailing him for 10 years and six months, Judge Robert Egbuna said Yates’s victims were ‘seeking help at a vulnerable time in their lives’, but he, ‘robbed both children of their innocence.’

The court heard he exchanged 250,000 messages with one victim and threatened to take his own life if the girls did not reply to him, or if they revealed he was a paedophile.

He also groped one of the victims at her parents’ home.  

The judge added: ‘You portrayed yourself as a friend and companion but preyed on them time and time again.

‘You are an astute man that had an armoury which you used to abuse and groom their frailties.

‘And you made these girls feel they were to blame for your behaviour. You knew what you were doing was wrong, you knew they were vulnerable and you simply did not care.’  

Yates worked as a maths teacher and form tutor at the Chellaston Academy for eight years when the first allegations were made known to the police.

The publicity from that saw the second victim come forward to describe what happened to her, the court heard.

One victim said the abuse started ‘with hugs as I left the classroom’ and later led to Yates touching her intimately.

She added: ‘I was so scared of doing something wrong.’

In her victim impact statement, the first victim said: ‘I have lost my carefree childhood.

‘It started in the classroom a place where I should have been safe. I truly believed he loved me and it was okay.

‘But it was not okay because I was a child and he was a paedophile.’

Yates worked as a maths teacher and form tutor at the Chellaston Academy (pictured) for eight years when the first allegations were made known to the police

Yates worked as a maths teacher and form tutor at the Chellaston Academy (pictured) for eight years when the first allegations were made known to the police

Yates worked as a maths teacher and form tutor at the Chellaston Academy (pictured) for eight years when the first allegations were made known to the police

Reading out her statement, the second victim said: ‘I feel completely betrayed and broken.

‘I lost two stone in weight and hours of sleep because of nightmares. I feel disgusted with myself and I have a fairly negative view of myself.

‘It all happened during my GCSEs and I think about what my results would have been if I had the chance to focus instead of being consumed by him.’  

Prosecutor Jonathan Straw told the court the two young girls were subjected to ‘protracted grooming, manipulation and extensive control.’

He added: ‘[Yates] preyed on the innocence of teenage vulnerability and, having gained their trust, he began to control each girl, infiltrating their everyday lives over time expressly for his own sexual gain.’

Yates pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to counts of engaging in sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15; sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 17 when he was abusing a position of trust; causing or inciting sexual activity with a girl aged 13-17; possessing extreme pornographic images, and making indecent images of a child.

In August last year, he pleaded guilty to inciting a girl to engage in sexual activity while he was in a position of trust.

He also admitted three counts of making indecent photographs of children.

He had two of category A, the most serious type, two of category B and 83 of category C.

James Varley, mitigating, said: ‘As unpleasant and disturbing as case this is, he is not going to be in this kind of position again.’  

Yates, from Stenson Fields in South Derbyshire, was also handed a sexual harm prevention order and placed on the sex offenders register for life.

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