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Dr Jonas Green, who worked at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School in Elstree, admitted accessing the indecent images in a letter to a Teaching Regulation Agency panel in 2022.
The agency ruled the former theology and philosophy teacher is “prohibited” from the profession indefinitely.
He will not be able to apply to restore his ability to teach.
Dr Green, 48, began working at the Hertfordshire school in 2007.
In January 2020, police in the region attended Dr Green’s home in Colney Heath after they received intelligence an IP address connected to him had been used to access “online child sexual abuse and exploitation material”.
“A number of devices were seized by the police,” agency decision maker John Knowles said.
“Dr Green’s laptop was triaged on scene and discovered to have the TOR network – also known as ‘the dark web’ – downloaded.
“Dr Green was asked why he had this downloaded and he replied that he used it to see what could be accessed, and whether it was possible to download child abuse on there.”
According to the agency, two images in Category B were found, which would have featured “non-penetrative sexual activity”.
Three images in Category C – the least severe of the three categories – were also found.
Dr Green’s employment at the school – now known as Haberdashers’ Boys’ School – ended on July 13, 2020, and he was convicted of two offences of making an indecent photograph or pseudo-photograph of children in December the same year.
He appeared at St Albans Crown Court on February 9, 2021, where he was handed two 12-month community orders which ran concurrently, given a sexual harm prevention order, and placed on the sex offenders’ register for five years.
Dr Green apologised for his behaviour in his letter to the Teaching Regulation Agency.
Mr Knowles said: “He stated that it was with deepest regret that he admitted to the allegation…
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