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Miklos Bolza

Teacher denies duty 'not to have sex with students'

Ex-teacher Helga Lam claims she had no obligation to refrain from sex with students in the 1970s. (Paul Braven/AAP PHOTOS)

A female teacher accused of molesting four boys in the late 1970s has argued there was no duty under societal standards of the time that prevented her having sex with students.

Helga Lam taught languages at a school in Sydney's eastern suburbs almost five decades ago and was arrested in 2021 over the alleged historical child sexual abuse of multiple students.

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