Lewd teacher's Facebook shocks schoolchildren

DOZENS of students as young as 11 stumbled across steamy images of their male teacher during an innocent web search.

The teacher's Facebook site carried an image of a hand down the front of one man's pants and a link inviting users to suck the teacher's "lollipop", according to a witness.

Parents who complained to the school said the principal blamed them for the children's shock find.

The Department of Education is being urged to warn teachers against posting lewd images of themselves online.

The furore is the latest in a string of cases that test the boundaries between teachers' classroom roles and their private lives.

Child protection advocate Bernadette McMenamin said students entered their teacher's name into a search engine and clicked on the results - a Facebook page.