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Predatory pack of male teachers groomed Sydney schoolgirls in '80s, Teacher's Pet podcast claims. On Saturday January 9, , Lynette Dawson of Bayview on Sydney's northern beaches, a devoted mother of two young children, disappeared. Source: Facebook Tweet Facebook Mail. The NSW Department of Education have refused to confirm if an investigation is underway into shocking allegations made in a popular podcast that a predatory pack of male teachers at three Sydney high schools systematically groomed schoolgirls for sex in the s.

All situated on Sydney's northern beaches, Cromer High, Forest High and Beacon Hill High closed in were named in a new true crime podcast as schools where Year 11 and 12 girls were preyed on. The explosive claims have been revealed in The Teacher's Pet , an investigation by The Australian newspaper exploring the mysterious disappearance and likely murder of young Sydney mother Lynette Joy Dawson.

Former Newtown Jets rugby league star Chris Dawson, Lyn's husband, was the last person to see her alive in January At the time his wife vanished, Dawson, a PE teacher with model looks who taught at Cromer High in the early eighties, was engaged in an intense sexual affair with a year-old student named Joanne Curtis. The Teacher's Pet alleges Dawson was just one figure in a group of male teachers, then aged in their thirties, who were known for charming and sleeping with young schoolgirls.

During the eighties, this kind of alleged unethical behaviour grew out of the bikini and beach culture championed on Sydney's northern beaches, according to the podcast. One former student claimed that at least six teachers from Cromer High in the s were sleeping with teenage schoolgirls. Another ex-pupil of Dawson's said teachers of that era at Cromer High viewed sex with Year 11 and 12 students as a "fringe benefit".

PE teacher Dawson is described in the podcast as having a "rock star" aura on the school ground.