Two teachers accused of serious misconduct with a 13-year-old pupil, who has since died, can now be named.
Samuel Nicholas Back, 42, and his partner Angela Maree Mepham, 33, both of Gisborne, were found guilty at an Education Council Disciplinary Tribunal hearing last month of serious misconduct.
Back was censured and struck off the teaching register Mepham was also censured, but because of her health, other stresses and her partner's influence, she retained her teaching register, however had conditions imposed on her practicing certificate.
In 2013 and 2014, Back, a former Gisborne Intermediate School teacher, "engaged in prolific text messaging and emailing" with the 13-year-old girl, communications that became "increasingly intimate and intense", the hearing in Wellington heard.
The girl stayed at the teacher's house five times, three times when Mepham was home and twice when she was away.