A teaching assistant who sent explicit pictures to a teenage pupil has left her job.
Elaine McKay, 58, who worked at the 1,700-pupil Clacton Coastal Academy in Essex, admitted sending a string of explicit photographs to the 15-year-old schoolboy, including provocative images of her sucking a cucumber and posing topless.
But she denied claims that the relationship escalated to the pair having sex, saying that the boy told a lie which got out of control.
Jurors found her not guilty of intentionally touching a boy aged 15 by having full sex with him and inciting a child to engage in sexual activity after just over an hour of deliberation at Chelmsford Crown Court earlier this month.
She had been suspended since the allegations came to light and today a spokesman for Academies Enterprise Trust, which runs the school, confirmed she had now left.
The school would not comment on whether she was sacked or resigned.
The spokesman added: “I can confirm that Elaine McKay, a former teaching assistant at Clacton Coastal Academy, has left our employment with immediate effect.”
McKay, from Clacton, is due to be sentenced next month.
