Kevin Doxey: 'Why did nobody stop our abusive teaching assistant?'

A erstwhile teaching adjunct described by a justice arsenic a "persistent intersexual predator" has been jailed - 5 years aft 2 of his victims complained. In the meantime helium targeted different pupil, who tried to termination herself due to the fact that of what happened. So wherefore wasn't Kevin Doxey stopped sooner?

"One of the uniformed constabulary officers that came to my location - and I volition not hide it - said 'Sometimes students bash get crushes connected their teachers'.

"It made maine consciousness similar 'Is this my fault?' I didn't person a crush connected him astatine all, but that isn't adjacent the point. Even if I had, helium was the idiosyncratic successful authority."

Charlotte* was conscionable 14 erstwhile she raised concerns astir Kevin Doxey, a teaching adjunct astatine her schoolhouse successful Derbyshire.

Doxey had started talking to her connected societal media, and the messages seemed guiltless astatine first.

However, Charlotte knew thing was incorrect erstwhile helium asked her to reply questions connected a enactment questionnaire.

"There were questions specified arsenic 'What's your bra size? Are you a virgin?' He asked whether I masturbated and however and when," she said.

"And whenever I said I didn't privation to reply these questions helium was precise persistent and said that I had to."

She complained to a teacher the adjacent day, backmost successful May 2018.

"As I was explaining it, different pupil successful that schoolhouse said 'Are you talking astir Kevin Doxey? He has done the aforesaid to me'," she said.

The schoolhouse past contacted police, Charlotte passed connected immoderate of the messages arsenic evidence, and Doxey was arrested.

However, she was yet told nary enactment would beryllium taken against him.

Doxey had told constabulary his relationship had been hacked and helium had not sent the messages - but Charlotte knew helium was lying.

"A batch of the messages were things lone helium would know, talking astir the play people we'd had the time earlier and things similar that," she said.

"It wouldn't conscionable beryllium idiosyncratic who had hacked his account."

Charlotte said she felt infuriated by the police's nonaccomplishment to bring charges - peculiarly arsenic she was not the lone pupil astatine Anthony Gell School that Doxey had been communicating with sexually.

She has since recovered retired helium had done the aforesaid to different pupil astir a twelvemonth before, betwixt April and August 2017.

Shortly aft that, helium targeted different girl, Bethany, betwixt September 2017 and May 2018. She was the pupil who spoke up astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic Charlotte.

Bethany, who was 15 astatine the time, said that arsenic good arsenic sending her intersexual questionnaires, Doxey utilized to hold extracurricular her house, which terrified her.

"He would hold by the alleyway adjacent my location and connection maine asking if helium could travel successful oregon if I could spell retired and conscionable him, but I ne'er did," said Bethany, who is present 21.

"I didn't consciousness harmless astatine location immoderate more.

"I would perpetually beryllium astatine the model peaking done the curtain making definite determination was nary 1 there. Who is going to prevention maine if thing happens here?"

When Charlotte spoke up it prompted her to accidental thing too.

"I sent the screenshots [to the school]," Bethany said.

"That was it, thing other happened, that was conscionable the extremity of it. I had nary update, perfectly nothing, truthful I don't cognize what happened aft that."

The BBC has asked Derbyshire Police wherefore Doxey was not charged backmost successful 2018. The unit said an probe was conducted and helium was interviewed.

"He gave an mentation that his relationship had been hacked and that helium had not sent the messages," constabulary said successful a statement.

"As a effect of method issues relating to the societal media accounts, the investigating officers were incapable to disprove Doxey's account."

When asked, the constabulary failed to specify what the method issues were.

The police's nonaccomplishment to enactment near Doxey escaped to people different pupil - Daisy.

She aboriginal tried to termination herself arsenic a effect of his actions.

Daisy said his messages connected societal media were "friendly" to statesman with, past helium sent her the intersexual questionnaire.

"I would ever disregard him erstwhile helium sent it to me," said Daisy, who is present 18.

"He was pressuring maine to talk to him and reply his questions. But I didn't."

This went connected for immoderate clip until Doxey sent her a photograph of his genitals successful August 2019, during the summertime holidays.

She was astatine a sleepover astatine a friend's location erstwhile it happened.

"Kevin was snapping maine connected my Snapchat and helium was asking maine what I was doing," she said.

"I told him I was sleeping astatine my mate's house, and helium said helium could travel and prime maine up and I could enactment astatine his for the nighttime and my parents would deliberation I was astatine my friend's location erstwhile truly I would beryllium with him."

Daisy said she ignored him, and that was erstwhile helium sent the photo.

"I retrieve it now, it's benignant of scarred successful my head," she said.

"He was lying successful furniture and helium had a stripy duvet connected his bedsheets.

"And it had the caption connected it saying 'Wish you was here', with the wink emoji and kisses."

Because the photograph was sent connected Snapchat it would person automatically disappeared, meaning determination would person been nary evidence.

However, Daisy - showing large beingness of caput - utilized different telephone to instrumentality a photograph of the telephone screen.

She told her parents erstwhile she got home, and her dada contacted police, who arrested Doxey.

However, it took 3 and a fractional years for Doxey to beryllium convicted and sentenced.

Daisy said she had continued to consciousness scared, knowing helium lived adjacent her.

Doxey had been suspended by the schoolhouse during the people of the investigation.

"I went to Morrisons and I really saw him moving there," she said.

"I had a panic attack. It did impact however harmless I felt erstwhile I went out.

"It was conscionable truthful scary for maine to spell retired and cognize he's inactive retired determination surviving his life."

In 2023, Doxey was jailed for 2 years aft pleading blameworthy to 4 counts of engaging successful intersexual connection with a child, with 1 offence for each of the victims.

Derbyshire Police said the archetypal 2 complaints were reopened erstwhile Daisy complained, and a 4th unfortunate was besides identified.

"While caller accusation had not been discovered successful narration to the offences that had been reported successful 2018, the similarities betwixt the cases provided the wide other grounds to enactment the claims and demonstrated Doxey's signifier of offending," the unit said successful a statement.

"The lawsuit was subsequently submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service."

Police blamed a backlog successful forensic probe for the hold successful Doxey being prosecuted.

"During the probe of the 2019 study determination was a important hold which was arsenic a effect of a backlog successful the forensic probe of devices seized from Doxey," the connection said.

"These lines of enquiry were perfectly indispensable to the case.

"However, we perfectly recognize the interaction that delays person connected victims and endeavour to update those progressive arsenic the enquiries continue."

The 3 young women who spoke to the BBC each judge Doxey was trying to groom them into intersexual enactment erstwhile they were underage.

Although they did not person immoderate carnal intersexual interaction with him, the offences person had superior and lasting effects connected each of them.

Bethany has moved distant from wherever she grew up but inactive feels excessively frightened to permission the location connected her own, unless she has her extortion canine with her.

Charlotte has terrible issues with her assemblage image, and has not been capable to signifier a narration successful her big life.

"I don't spot that radical aren't trying to instrumentality vantage of me, similar him," she said.

"I conscionable deliberation it's intersexual each the clip and that it's power, and trying to instrumentality power of my vulnerability, due to the fact that astatine specified a young property that's what happened and I've not been capable to get retired of that mindset."

She besides feels blameworthy due to the fact that her ailment did not forestall him from targeting Daisy.

"It conscionable feels horrible due to the fact that it makes maine consciousness similar I should person done more, but determination was thing much I could person done," she said.

"I can't alteration what the constabulary did, I can't unit the constabulary to analyse further."

As good arsenic her termination attempt, Daisy said what had happened had affected her acquisition and aboriginal prospects.

"My learning conscionable went truly downhill," she said.

"I did utilized to sometimes skip lessons if I had a antheral teacher due to the fact that I conscionable couldn't go.

"I felt similar I couldn't spot them.

"I wouldn't privation to spell backmost into acquisition due to the fact that it's inactive going to impact maine forever."

Derbyshire Police said: "As a unit we recognize that the interaction of crimes similar those committed by Kevin Doxey tin person a life-long interaction connected victims.

"We apologise that those affected by his crimes person not received the work they expected and we volition beryllium contacting them to recognize however our work to aboriginal victims tin beryllium improved.

"As a unit we instrumentality each reports of this quality seriously, nary substance erstwhile they person occurred, and volition analyse them thoroughly."

Charlotte said she wanted to marque it wide she did not blasted the schoolhouse for what had happened.

However, Bethany does consciousness the schoolhouse was partially responsible.

"The schoolhouse were expected to beryllium looking aft us," she said. "At the extremity of the time we were successful their attraction astatine that clip and they were not keeping america safe."

She believes the schoolhouse should person fixed them a mode to speech to idiosyncratic professionally, specified arsenic a counsellor oregon a teacher they could trust, and encouraged different pupils to travel guardant and archer idiosyncratic what was happening.

Anthony Gell School said successful a statement: "Keeping our students harmless is astatine the centre of our work, and schoolhouse leaders volition not hesitate successful responding decisively to immoderate concern.

"As with each our members of staff, his recruitment had followed each of the nationally recognised safer recruitment protocols, and his induction had included each the indispensable safeguarding training.

"We afloat cooperated with and assisted successful a elaborate investigation, moving intimately with the constabulary and safeguarding authorities."

*Names of the victims person been changed to support their identities.

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