teeth<\/span> started chattering.<\/p>\n\u201cI could barely comprehend what I was being told \u2014 that my wife was being suspected of child abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n
Police searched the family home taking away any computers and phones before social services called to arrange a visit.<\/p>\n
After Kandice was questioned by police, Danny drove to the station to collect his wife.<\/p>\n
I couldn\u2019t find the words to tell her what my ex had done, but one day, she Googled me and found out.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe drove in total silence until I demanded answers,\u201d Danny says.<\/p>\n
\u201cKandice swore it was \u2018all lies\u2019 and insisted that she hadn\u2019t had sex with the boy and started to cry.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe kept repeating she was innocent, and wanted to live a normal life for the kids.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted so much to believe her. She was my partner, someone I got into bed with every night.\u201d<\/p>\n
Danny admits that he couldn\u2019t ignore the niggles at the back of his brain that something was very wrong.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I picked my daughter up from school I found myself looking at the boys and wondering if they were my wife\u2019s type,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t completely squash my doubts.\u201d<\/p>\n
The family tried to continue life as normally as possible and for the time being they didn\u2019t hear anything from the police.<\/p>\n
\u201cStrangely, to me Kandice didn\u2019t seem fazed by what was going on,\u201d Danny says.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen, eight months later, I was at work when I got a phone call from Kandice, sounding distressed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kandice explained that she had been charged on three counts of causing or inciting a child aged under 16 years to engage in a sexual act, one count of sexual communication with a child, one count of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activities while in a position of trust, and one count of causing a child to watch a sexual act by a person in a position of trust.<\/p>\n
But Danny says the teacher continued to protest her innocence, implying that the victim had invented the incident.<\/p>\n
During the trial at Aylesbury Crown Court, Danny appeared as a witness for her defence and was quizzed on every aspect of their sex life.<\/p>\n
The trial was a huge burden on Danny.<\/p>\n
He says: \u201cI read humiliating details in the paper, such as one of my wife\u2019s text messages, which read: \u2018You have a bigger p**** than my husband.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAs I tried to make sense of the evidence, it seemed to me that the times we\u2019d had a rough patch in our sex life had coincided with the dates she was accused of sleeping with the 15-year-old pupil.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kandice was convicted on two sex offence charges relating to sending topless Snapchat pictures and a video, but the jury was unable to reach verdicts on the charges of causing or inciting a child aged under 16 to engage in a sexual act.<\/p>\n
In time, Kandice, 35, appeared at the same court for a retrial, where she denied causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.<\/p>\n
The court heard how Kandice added herself to the victim's Snapchat account and exchanged messages with the boy, which became sexual.<\/p>\n
She also sent the victim pictures, including a topless image and a live video of a sexual act.<\/p>\n
The court heard how Kandice later asked the boy to meet her, going to a private field and having sex with him.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was gruelling and shameful to go through it again and hear the lurid allegations,\u201d Danny says.<\/p>\n
\u201cTwo weeks later, she was found guilty of one charge of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity but found not guilty of two further counts of the same offence.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt emotionally drained and terrified for her because I knew she would be locked up the next<\/span> day.<\/p>\n\u201cI made spaghetti Bolognese for her last night of freedom and then Kandice talked to each of her kids in turn.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was so torn, part of me wondering how she\u2019d cope in a cell, away from our creature comforts.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut another part thought: You've been found guilty of sleeping with a child. I'm embarrassed. I married you \u2014 I gave you my last name and you've shamed it in the darkest possible way.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sentencing Kandice to six years and two months in jail, Recorder Bal Dhaliwal said Barber had 'acted in gross breach of trust' and had taken 'advantage of a child in your care and groomed him for your own sexual gratification'.<\/p>\n
She told Kandice: \u2018You had control and authority over him. He felt drawn in by you due to the compliments, you caused him to engage in sex with you while he was a pupil in your care. You threatened to take him down with you if he reported it. You already had authority over him by virtue of your position but to use threats is beyond despicable.'<\/p>\n
The court heard a statement from the victim, who said he faced stress and anxiety as a result of the incidents and two trials.<\/p>\n
In the weeks following the trial, Danny struggled with the enormity of crime.<\/p>\n
I could barely comprehend what I was being told \u2014 that my wife was being suspected of child abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cKandice called me from prison and told me that she\u2019d only serve three years,\u201d Danny says.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe told me that we would get through it together, I felt totally lost and didn\u2019t know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
It was when Danny faced further tragedy, he says, that he finally saw Kandice\u2019s true colours.<\/p>\n
\u201cA month later, my stepdad died, followed a few months later by my sister,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was going through the darkest time of my life and the person who should have been there for me \u2014 my wife \u2014 was in prison.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was hard because I was standing by her, and people thought I must be a paedophile, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe said she was suffering but she was in a cell and just had to survive.<\/p>\n
\u201cI felt I was dealing with all the backlash.<\/p>\n
\u201cThen one evening, she called, wanting to be romantic, I didn\u2019t want to and started to distance myself from her.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe never wavered from saying she was innocent, and I was still trying to believe her.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut then I wondered why the boy would make everything up.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt didn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen she filed for divorce, I was relieved. I just couldn\u2019t support her any more.\u201d<\/p>\n
Free of Kandice, Danny has finally been able to move on and find love once again.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn time, I met someone new, Charlotte,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn\u2019t find the words to tell her what my ex had done, but one day she Googled me and found out.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was tough and there were lots of tears, but we worked through it.<\/p>\n
\u201cNow, we\u2019re expecting a baby and I\u2019m the happiest I\u2019ve been in years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve been through hell and wouldn\u2019t wish it on my worst enemy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve chosen to walk away from Kandice, so my actions show I don\u2019t believe her any more.<\/p>\n
\u201cI just wish I could find out what she actually did.<\/p>\n
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