A person in a position of a authority over a vulnerable person should not breach that trust by having a sexual relationship with someone in their care.
It doesn't matter whether they are a teacher, religious pastor, counsellor, therapist, doctor, or anyone else in that situation. Doctors get struck off pastors defrocked or whatever the appropriate word is. You do not do it and accept the consequences if you do. If the relationship is developing the person in the senior position should end their formal relationship with the object of their affections.
Time and time again we have these modern Juliets professing their undying love for their teacher, best friend's Dad, Turkish waiter or Egyptian bar man. I have yet to hear of one that doesn't end in years. Two years after the great romantic abduction/elopement. they are back home with Mum and Dad sadder and wiser and often with a child.
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