Twitch Teacher Banned Indefinitely for 'Trolling' Minors
A former teacher in Greater Manchester has been banned from teaching indefinitely after using Google Translate to ask a child to remove their shorts on the gaming platform Twitch. Liam Quinn, 32, was an IT and Computing teacher at Audenshaw School when he created a secondary account on Twitch to talk to a child.
The misconduct panel heard that Quinn used the platform to 'troll' and engage in 'being an idiot in the chat.' He claimed that his actions were initially treated as a 'stupid joke' and an attempt to provoke a reaction and be banned from the platform.
Quinn was given a conditional caution by Greater Manchester Police for causing or inciting a child under 13 to engage in sexual activity. The panel found that Quinn's behavior may lead to pupils being exposed to, or influenced by, such behavior in a harmful way.