A FORMER Bendigo school teacher yesterday pleaded guilty to having a sexual relationship with one of his students.Craig Robert Beaumont, 48, of Huntly, pleaded guilty in the Bendigo Magistrates Court yesterday morning to one count each of gross indecency with a person under 16 and indecent assault.Beaumont was a teacher at White Hills Technical College – now known as Weeroona College – when he entered into a relationship with the teenage victim.The court was told the offences occurred between October 1988 and July 1989 when Beaumont was in his mid-20s.A summary of the charges was not heard before magistrate Richard Wright yesterday.Beaumont’s bail was extended, with the one condition that he not contact the victim or any of the prosecution witnesses.He will next appear in the Bendigo County Court on March 21.
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