Avici, his perverted interests were on the Internet for public consumption BEFORE he was employed as a teacher at the independent school. That alone was reason enough for him to NOT have been allowed to work as a teacher with minors.

The public has every DUTY, as opposed to right, to ensure that at least from here onwards, schools vet current and prospective members of staff thoroughly. That cannot happen with sweeping last week’s tragic incident under the carpet simply to protect the adult teacher responsible for it.

Like Erin Tanti, I am a teacher. Like him, I have huge responsibilities towards my students.

However, unlike Erin Tanti, I’m currently sane enough to understand my responsibilities and I can control my actions.

I do not believe that you can judge or condemn a person who has attempted suicide. The human mind is great has to have gone to great lengths before it arrived at such a point. But if it does arrive to such a point, what reasoning powers does it have left?

My only wish is, let the police and the judiciary system do the judging. Let them give the sentence. Is he guilty of some immorality? Was he capable of reasoning or controlling himself? Maybe Yes, maybe not.

Till than. .. none of us are in a position to judge his doing over his actions, as wrong as such actions might be.

Force of habit.

Exactly.

By extending condolences to the family of the girl, as well as wishing Erin a speedy recovery is a sign of good human nature. We all have our biases and opinion on what happened Ms Daphne but let’s take into account that at the end of the day, we are all human and we are one in the same. No one knows what happened, so as supposed to idle speculation on what happened, I ask that you wait till you get the full story before you keep posting these articles. I have seen most of them and I must say it has become some sort of obsessive mission to bring him down rather than sharing news. Please leave that to the Police as well as the Times to give us the information on what truly happened.

[Daphne – Experience and common sense tell me that when the full facts do emerge, if they do, they will be much worse than what we know so far, and that far from exculpating Stewart Tanti as his supporters hope, they will make it clear that anyone who supports him is most ill[-advised.

Your rational mind should tell you that quite apart from it being a really major transgression for a teacher to keep a pupil out all night while the police were looking for her, and to drive her to a dangerous place at 4am, there can be no possible good motive for doing so. There can only be less bad motives, but all of them, given that this is a 15-year-old we are talking about, are terrible.]

No, John. But you can rest assured that the school authorities were always well aware of this person’s history which is unavoidable.

Rest assured that there is nothing untoward in this particular case and that my concerns were of a totally other kind, perhaps even dating back to the days when I myself was being educated.

Yet now, knowing that this school has employed the like of Messrs. Tanti and Vella Gera, has me grievously concerned as to whether my children will one day face dangers that are inherent in a system that appears not to be sufficiently discriminating when selecting teachers.

If the girl wanted to commit suicide would a responsible teacher take her to where she could easily do it? If he tried to save her, he is very lucky that he did not meet the same fate as her.

Frankly I think the school’s administration should be investigated. Screening and monitoring teachers’ behaviour is surely a top priority for any school head.