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The Sydney Morning Herald
· collected 2026-09-28 · by Daniel Lo Surdo
Deandra Kontou, a 32-year-old former teacher at Newington College in Sydney, has been charged with nine sexual offenses, including rape and grooming a student under the age of 16 using an electronic device. Kontou left her position at the prestigious school in 2019 after two years. She appeared before Sutherland Local Court on Wednesday where she was granted conditional bail pending further legal proceedings set for November 25.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-28,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
Deandra Kontou, a 32-year-old former geography teacher at Newington College in Sydney, has been charged with nine sex offenses including rape and grooming a student under 16. The charges stem from alleged incidents between May and September 2019, both during school hours and on a school trip to Fitzroy Island near the Great Barrier Reef. Kontou left Newington in late 2019 but continues to receive pay from the Department of Education while suspended without teaching duties at Georges River College Senior Campus, where she taught until her arrest last week. She will appear next on November 25 at Burwood Local Court under strict bail conditions that bar her from entering any school or contacting the alleged victim.
Written for “Newington Teacher Rape Case” on 2026-10-05,
grounded in this article and the 4 other(s) covering the same event.
A former teacher at Sydney’s Newington College has been charged with the rape of a student and four counts of aggravated sexual touching after allegedly using an electronic device to groom her young victim before carrying out the attack.
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Deandra Kontou, 32, was last week charged with nine sex offences, after an investigation by the Inner West Police Area Command into allegations the teacher sexually assaulted and groomed a student in her care.
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Kontou worked at Newington College for two years, leaving the prestigious school in 2019.
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Kontou’s charges include inciting a person to partake in an aggravated sexual act, four counts of sexually touching another person, and inciting another person to sexually touch them, and have sex with them.
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They also include aggravated sexual assault, which under NSW law is an offence equivalent to rape.
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Police believe the alleged victim was under 16 at the time of the attack.
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A Newington College spokesperson confirmed Kontou’s former employment when contacted by the Herald.
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“Newington College does not tolerate conduct by individual teachers that is in conflict with our professional standards or the law,” the spokesperson said.
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“As this matter is before the courts, we are not able to provide any further comment at this time.”
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Kontou appeared in Sutherland Local Court on Wednesday, where she was granted conditional bail to return to her home in Sydney’s southern suburbs.
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She is banned from entering any school or undertaking teaching jobs that require contact with children, contacting the alleged victim and any prosecuting witnesses, or being in the company of a child without another adult present.
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Kontou is required to report to Sutherland Police Station weekly, surrender her passport and not enter an international point of departure from Australia.
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She will next appear at Burwood Local Court on November 25.
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The school, founded in 1863, started accepting girls into its classrooms this year following a highly contentious decision that led to courtroom showdowns and a broader culture war over the merits of all-boy schools and toxic masculinity.
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