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A teaching assistant who booked a hotel bedroom for sex with a schoolboy had seduced him in just a matter of weeks, the ECHO can reveal.

Lydia Beattie-Milligan - nicknamed "Mrs Robinson" from the film The Graduate by a friend - targeted a vulnerable pupil .

The 43-year-old intended to spend a Saturday night alone with her victim, who suffered from anxiety issues, in Haydock.

The married mum-of-two tried to talk her way out of sordid text messages during a shocking trial at Liverpool Crown Court .

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A jury heard her texts to a friend about buying sexy underwear and giving him a lap dance, ahead of "major f***ing".

Beattie-Milligan, of Kingsley Close, Lydiate , was found guilty of arranging to meet a child following sexual grooming.

Here is how the pervert manipulated the boy's emotions, but ended up being hit with two years in jail and a likely costly divorce.

Trained masseuse offered massage

Beattie-Milligan had worked in education for 25 years, but was also a trained masseuse, and soon offered the boy a massage.

She befriended the student, changed the way she dressed to catch his attention, and they exchanged mobile phone numbers.

Beattie-Milligan told the jury she knew it was against school policy to do this, but she took the boy’s number to "support him".

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Kissing emojis

Judge Gary Woodhall said: "This then allowed you, as you did, to communicate with him privately and outside of school.

"From the very beginning that communication was inappropriate, including sending kissing emojis, signing off with kisses, within a day offering to give him a massage and referring to him as 'babes'.

"It is clear you were infatuated with him, indeed, changing the way you dressed when going to work."

She groomed him into what he believed was a relationship, with what the judge described as "sexual connotations and undertones".

Asked about sending him a message saying "Can’t wait to see you tomorrow.xx", she claimed to "give everyone a kiss on texts".

Beattie-Milligan said: "I didn't think I was doing anything wrong. With hindsight, yes, it was completely inappropriate."

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"OMG I cannot stop thinking about you"

After she texted that she cared about him and he replied that he cared about her too, the boy asked if she loved him.

She replied: "OMG I cannot stop thinking about you but I know it is wrong. You do batter my head, so maybe."

Beattie-Milligan said she realised "the lines were getting blurred" but was "all over the place at the time".

Giving evidence, she confessed the boy made her happy, but said she would say "can't wait to see you tomorrow" to anyone.

Beattie-Milligan said texting him "I have got all these feelings, so wrong, but I can't help it" didn't mean "I wanted to jump into bed with him".

Judge Woodhall said: "When he asked you whether you loved him you told him that you could not stop thinking about him, you told him that you had 'all these feelings for him'.

Lap dance in sexy underwear

"He told you he felt the same way. It is clear to me you were sexually attracted to this boy, you were infatuated with him and you were encouraging similar feelings within him.

"As the adult and more particularly as his teacher, it was your duty to stop such discussions and to end communication, but you did not, you continued to communicate inappropriately with him."

Beattie-Milligan told the child they "were good together" and talked about how they would drink beer and Prosecco at the hotel, while the boy referred to the fact that he wouldn't be going home.

But it was in text messages to a friend - who wrongly believed Beattie-Milligan was talking about an affair with an adult - that she revealed her sick intentions.

Judge Woodhall said: "You referred to trimming your body hair, you said you were going to make sure you were looking amazing, that you were going to do a lap dance for him and get some sexy underwear and in your words - not mine - in one text saying "major f***ing going on".

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"Getting really turned on"

Beattie-Milligan claimed comments made to a colleague about "getting really turned on" related to a learning facilitator at the school - not the boy.

She insisted she only planned to spend a limited time with the boy in the room "in order to have a conversation" about ceasing contact.

Quizzed why she told him "all booked babes in Haydock", she told the court: "Babes is a word I used lightly, it has no meaning."

The judge said she was "fully aware" that what she was doing and arranging was wrong, but nonetheless, ploughed ahead.

The pervert even referred in messages to the fact she couldn't collect him from his home, knowing it could lead to her arrest.

She insisted "I have 100% no interest in children in a sexual way", but both the jury and the judge rejected these claims.

Bonus points in class

Another staff member noticed Beattie-Milligan "acting too familiar" with the boy and giving him bonus points in class.

When they joked with the child that he must be her favourite, the victim revealed incriminating text messages on his phone.

She was suspended, but the court heard the boy's vulnerabilities meant he struggled to deal with what she had done to him.

His health and behaviour was affected and he was left "mistrustful of professionals", making it more difficult to get help.

Judge Woodhall said: "In short he has not been able to deal with what you did to him and has threatened to take his own life."

A psychologist assessed Beattie-Milligan as having low mood, anxiety and stress connected with issues in her past, for which she was on medication.

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Husband seeking divorce

Judge Woodhall said a report included details of how her past relationships with pupils had also "crossed appropriate boundaries", though not sexually.

The judge said these appeared to be part of a "need to feel valued" - noting she was undergoing counselling and had expressed remorse.

But he said her husband was seeking a divorce, she now had difficulty seeing her children, had lost her career and could also lose her home.

Judge Woodhall said: "In your letter you refer to unresolved issues, which made you make bad decisions.

"You pray in aid the fact that you have worked all your adult life with children, looking after and caring for them.

"I am afraid I take the view that that exacerbates the breach of trust.

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"Boys like him sometimes need protecting"

"You of all people must have known what you were doing and why it was so wrong.

"Boys like him sometimes need protecting not only from others but also from themselves, lacking the maturity and skills to make appropriate decisions.

"You were employed to protect him and help him, and for your own benefit, fulfilment and reward, you breached that significant trust which had been placed in you."

He made a Sexual Harm Prevention Order, which he said was necessary because her problems were not yet resolved, adding: "There is no guarantee they ever will be."

Under the terms of the 10-year-order, she isn't allowed any unsupervised access with any male under 16, save for in specific circumstances, subject to stringent rules.

Sex offender for a decade

Beattie-Milligan must also sign on the Sex Offenders Register for a decade, meaning she cannot move home or change her name without informing the police.

Judge Woodhall said she had no history of poor compliance with court orders, there was a prospect of rehabilitation and she had "strong personal mitigation".

He said this included the significant harmful impact on her young children if she was jailed - a factor judges must take into account when sentencing.

However, he concluded she still posed a risk to the public and only jail was appropriate.