THE MUM of a teenage boy alleged to have become a teacher's lover told a jury of her shock after being told her 'baby' was having sex with the woman.

The mother, who cannot be named for legal reasons, confronted Hapton support teacher Zoe Morgan after her son told her he was sleeping with the woman, a court heard.

The pair met in the car park of a working men's club in Burnley and sat in Morgan's car, the boy's mother told the jury.

She said: "I asked her what had been going on and she said 'it just happened, I fell in love with him. I found him very attractive.'

"I asked if she had slept with him, but did not go into details because I was shocked.

"I said how can you fall in love with a boy?"

She added: "She said she had left her boyfriend for him and I told her she had taken by baby away.

"She replied he was not a boy, he was a man and that she wanted to be with him."

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 was a series of meetings, with Morgan taking the youth and his friends to her home where 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.

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