The Sydney teacher charged with multiple sex offences against a 15-year-old student allegedly breached the trust of the private boys’ college, the school’s principal has said, as he prepares for the allegations to send shockwaves through the community.

Ella Clements, 24, was charged on Monday with three counts of aggravated sexual intercourse with a child between 14 and 16 years old, and intentionally sexually touching a child between 10 and 16, two weeks after she was arrested following allegations she engaged in an “inappropriate relationship” with a student in her care at St Augustine’s College, Brookvale.

St Augustine’s principal Jonathan Byrne said the college’s focus was on ensuring the “privacy and wellbeing” of the student, and warned against harmful speculation as the school com

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