Pupils from a Far North college are being taunted after a disgraced deputy principal pleaded guilty to abusing primary school boys.
James Parker had taught at Pamapuria School but pleaded guilty last week to 49 charges of sexually abusing schoolboys. He is due to be sentenced on November 15.
Since then, it has emerged police investigated an earlier complaint in 2009 but did not have enough evidence to lay charges. They did, however, warn the school.
Others have claimed they had concerns about Parker when he first started teaching 16 years ago.
Yesterday it emerged that Parker's actions have now affected pupils in the wider Northland community. Kaitaia College principal William Tailby said he believed former Pamapuria pupils now at his college had been taunted after the case blew up nationally.