A TEENAGER told a jury he had stopped going to a teacher's house because he thought she was a paedophile.

The 16-year-old boy, who cannot be named, told a court he had visited Zoe Morgan's house three or four times with a group of friends, including a boy she allegedly took as her lover.

The boy said he had been to the defendant's house in Hapton, where he had smoked cannabis and drunk lager and where he had seen Morgan kiss his friend with "open mouths".

The boy said: "I saw them kiss in the front room and after that I stopped going, I did not think it was right. I thought she was a paedophile or something."

The boy, a pupil at Barden High School, also told the jury during a video interview his friend had confided to him that Morgan was pregnant, but that he should not mention it to anyone else.

Morgan, 32, a mother of one, denies five counts of sexual activity with a child between September and November last year.

The jury at Burnley Crown Court heard the defendant, of Leigh Park, Hapton, was working as a support teacher and mentor at Barden High School, Burnley, when the six-week relationship began.

Kate Blackwell, prosecuting, told the court that the defendant helped with children with behavioural problems and learning difficulties.

She said the first time anything sexual happened between Morgan and the boy was when she was driving her Alfa Romeo on Disraeli Street, in Burnley, when the boy asked her for a kiss.

The court heard over the next month there were a series of meetings, with Morgan taking the youth and his friends to her home.

The teacher and the boy allegedly had sex in her bedroom, and in her daughter's bedroom.

She also performed sex acts on him in her car at a picnic site at Barley, and in the car park of TK Maxx, in Burnley, the court heard.

The boy told the court he and Morgan had sex five or six times and that the teacher gave him cannabis before each time.

Miss Blackwell said a friend of the boy's mother saw him in Morgan's car and he confessed to his mum what had been going on. The police were called in and Morgan was arrested and charged.

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