A northern beaches family’s policy of phones on the table led investigators to discover an “inappropriate relationship” between a 15-year-old and his drama teacher, police will allege in court.

Ella Clements, a 24-year-old drama teacher at St Augustine’s College, Brookvale was arrested on September 16 and this week faced court charged with a raft of sex offences against one of her students.

The Herald can reveal that the father of the victim – whose identity is protected by law as a child victim of crime and cannot be named – allegedly discovered text messages between Clements and his 15-year-old son as the boy’s phone sat on the dining room table.

Clements is now facing three counts of aggravated sexual intercourse with a child between 14 and 16 years old, and intentionally sexuall

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