A TEACHER from the Isle of Wight has been jailed for sex offences against two boys he met through an online dating app.
Thomas Goodey, 27, of Daniel Street, Ryde, who took one of the boys to a hotel and gave him vodka, and invited the other to his mother's house while she was away, was sentenced to four years in prison when he appeared at Portsmouth Crown Court.
He had previously admitted five counts of sexual activity with a child and one of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
Goodey met the boys on the dating app Grindr and later became aware they were underage, the court heard.
According to the BBC, Judge David Melville told him: “You should have said no. You weakened when you should have resisted.”
The school said the performing arts teacher was dismissed shortly after the allegations emerged.
The court heard Goodey invited the first boy to his mother's house in September last year. The teenager reported it in February, when Goodey was arrested.
In a statement read out in court, the boy said: “My life has suffered. I have been unhappy, less patient and I have issues with trusting people.”
Goodey admitted spending the night with the second boy at a hotel in October 2016.
The judge imposed a sexual harm prevention order and placed Goodey on the sex offenders' register.