The Daily Mail reports:
A Teacher who grabbed a flight attendant’s groin and demanded sex after downing almost a pint of whisky was spared jail yesterday so she can keep her job.
Katherine Goldberg, 25, groped the airline steward during a flight from Johannesburg to London.
Goldberg was given a community order after the judge was told any prison sentence would mean she would not be allowed to teach again.
In court: Katherine Goldberg avoided a jail sentence despite admitting to sexually assaulting an air steward during a return flight to the UK
In mitigation, Isleworth Crown Court was told that Goldberg from Ealing, west London was convinced that the man was her boyfriend as a result of her ‘alcohol-induced illusion’.
‘I would be wrong to impose a lifetime punishment by preventing you working in a profession where you clearly have talent,’ said Judge Andrew McDowall at Isleworth Crown Court, West London.
A prison sentence or a community order longer than 12 months would have meant Goldberg would have had to sign the sex offender register – meaning she could not work with children.
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The preferential treatment of women in courts is widely out of fashion among the readers of the Daily Mail, I guess.
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