Primary school worker fired for vile Snapchat messages to two 12yo's

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4 days ago

A child support worker has been struck off after calling a young girl a 'sl*g' and a 'stupid fat w***e' over vile messages on Snapchat.
Gillian Sorbie, 41, who previously worked at a primary school in Fife, Scotland, was removed from her job after sending the disgusting texts to two 12-year-olds between March and October 2023.
She also offered to buy vapes and 'dish them out' to kids at the school – having used pupils' details to find them and add them on Snapchat, The Sun reported.
In one of the shocking messages sent to the young girl, she told the pupil to 'go to f*****g hell' and even threatened to 'hurt her'.
The messages were published following a hearing by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC), unveiling the vile behaviour of the former school support worker.
Sorbie sent messages which read: 'Go suck a f**k, that's what w****s do, so anytime you feel like it.'
She also verbally abused the pupil further, telling her to 'go to f**king hell' and 'just you wait till tomorrow you stupid fat w***e'.
Sorbie also threatened to hurt the same young girl, saying: 'F**k you, you're gonna hurt when I see you tomorrow.'
She then went on to shockingly ask: 'Are you dead yet?'
In messages to another 12-year-old student, Sorbie arranged to buy them a vape, the Daily Record reported.
She wrote: 'I'm going to get yours in the shop round from me before I head down.
'Any particular type or flavour you want?'
Sorbie also instructed the young child to get into her car before exchanging the vapes for cash.
Telling the pupil about her plans over Snapchat, she wrote: 'What to do is, all of you give all the money to one person, then that person can jump in my car and I'll hand over all of the vapes and they can dish them out after I've gone.
'Don't want to be seen selling you vapes in public so gotta be subtle. xx'.
Shockingly, Sorbie then joked that she couldn't 'have folk know' she was 'selling vapes to 11-year-olds'.
She told the pupil that it has 'to be kept quiet' and also asked them how many other students wanted vapes.
Sorbie was convicted of selling a nicotine product to a person under the age of 18 at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court in September last year.
During a hearing at the SSSC last week, a panel heard how the child support worker tried to delete the messages after the parent of one of the children attempted to save them.
She ultimately failed in her bid to conceal any wrongdoing and was banned by the safety watchdog from working in social care indefinitely.
'Abusive and inappropriate content'
The SSSC ruling on the case read: 'You provided two former pupils of the primary school where you worked with your contact details and then repeatedly contacted them both on a social media messaging application.
'This was further aggravated by the abusive and inappropriate content of the messages.
'You offered to sell nicotine vape devices to a child. This is an abuse of the trust placed in you by your employer and the parents of the children you were entrusted to care for.'
It added: 'You attempted to delete messages as the parent of one of the children was trying to save them in an attempt to conceal your wrongdoing.
'A warning would not be appropriate as the behaviour is extremely serious and a warning would give no protection to service users or the public.
'A condition would not be appropriate because the type of behaviour at issue is not the type of behaviour which conditions would rectify.'