A NEWPORT teacher who used photographs of another woman’s baby to fool her ex-boyfriend into thinking he was a father was banned from teaching for two years yesterday.

Victoria Jones was suspended for the maximum term possible after the General Teaching Council for Wales (GTCW) heard she e-mailed Daniel Barberini more than 80 pictures of Aliyah Lovell, taken from Facebook, over a 17-month period.

Speaking after the two-day tribunal ended, Aliyah’s mum Sarah Jensen said it should have been longer.

The mum-of-one was forced to move home after Miss Jones, a former classmate, spun a web of deceit using pictures she could only access as a Facebook friend of Miss Jensen.

Miss Jensen still has trouble leaving Aliyah, now three, in the care of others after Miss Jones claimed she had given birth to the toddler after moving to Australia.

In fact she was childless, single and teaching at Ringland Primary School.

“I am glad something’s been done and she hasn’t got away with it, but she could have got longer,” Miss Jensen said.

“Whether it was in her school life or private life, she still did something no teacher should ever do.”

The GCTW said although Jones sent the emails privately it had impacted adversely on her standing as a teacher.

The Machen resident resigned weeks after she was exposed by a national newspaper in February 2010 and is no longer a registered teacher.

Meanwhile Miss Jensen and her partner Justin Lovell, 31, were told police could not bring charges and moved from Abercarn to another area in Gwent to escape local gossip.

“I didn’t want to be living in that house knowing she knew where I was,” Miss Jensen said.

“You don’t expect someone on your Facebookwhois your friend to steal pictures of your child, especially someone you haven’t spoken to for so long.”

In Miss Jones’s defence Colin Adkins, from the National Association of Schoolmasters / Union of Women Teachers, told the Cardiff hearing teacher training ‘did not stop human beings making mistakes’.

But tribunal chairman John Collins said, while her behaviour did not occur during school hours, it was not an ‘isolated lapse’ either.

“This was serious misconduct taking place over a long period of time and involving deception,” he said