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A former teacher jailed for four years for sex offenses against a schoolboy will make a bid for bail today as he appeals the sentences.
Noel Strap, 39, was found guilty of sexually assaulting and sexually assaulting the girl when she was 16 and he was her teacher and athletic trainer at Roncalli High in Avondale.
Strap was convicted in February of crimes committed between 2014 and 2016.
But he is appealing the convictions, arguing that the trial judge favored the victim’s evidence over his own to the extent that it was “unreasonable, disproportionate and unfair”.
The court heard that Strap and the girl had about 100 sexual encounters at school, Strap’s home and in his car.
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