A schoolboy groomed over Facebook by a teaching assistant has claimed they had sex up to 50 times and he has been left ‘scarred for life’.

Last week the MEN exclusively revealed how teaching assistant Caroline Berriman had avoided jail after coming clean about the relationship with the teenage boy at Abraham Moss Community School in Crumpsall last year.

Berriman, 30, pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual activity with a child - and a further charge of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust.

The disgraced teaching assistant, of Manor Close in Chadderton, Oldham, was handed a two-year sentence, suspended for two years at Minshull Street Crown Court, having pleaded guilty to all three charges at an earlier hearing.

She was also ordered to carry out 250 hours of unpaid community work - and pay a £100 victim surcharge.

But the teenage victim has now broken his silence saying they did not have sex until five months into the relationship.

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He said Berriman groomed him over Facebook and they went on to have unprotected sex.

The boy also claimed Berriman told him she was pregnant.

He said: “It must have happened over 50 times in the space of those few months.”

The teenager, who is no longer at the school, also claimed Berriman introduced him to her two-year-old daughter and she told him she was pregnant.

He said: “Stuff like that has scarred me for life.”

The victim said the pair regularly texted and called each other and he spent a lot of time at her Berriman’s home.

His mother eventually found out about the relationship and threatened to go to police if it was not ended.

Berriman was suspended by the school when they were alerted to the allegations of a relationship and she is no longer employed there.

Abraham Moss, on Crescent Road in Crumpsall, has 1,600 students aged five to 16 and was Manchester’s first ‘through school’ with primary and secondary pupils.

Ofsted bosses downgraded it to ‘requires improvement’ from good last year.

Headteacher Gillian Houghton told the MEN last week: “Safeguarding pupils is a number one priority for us and we take it extremely seriously.

“This person was suspended as soon as the allegations came to light and no longer works at the school.”