A 15 year old schoolgirl who sparked an international manhunt after eloping with her 31 year old maths teacher Jeremy Forrest is now said to be 'ridiculously happy' after falling for a 20-year-old PE teaching assistant and part-time security guard, while teacher Jeremy is currently serving a five-and-a-half-year sentence for abducting her.
The Sun on Sunday reported girl,' who cannot be named for legal reasons', posted a picture showing the new man giving her a kiss on the cheek while she sticks her tongue out.
And her mother is understood to wholeheartedly approve of the relationship, telling the newspaper: 'He is really nice and we have welcomed him into our family and I am very happy for my daughter.'
It is believed that because the girl is now 16 and the new teacher does not work at her current school, their relationship is not illegal.
Friends of the teenager are also said to be keen on the new man and see him as a positive influence.
The pair who reportedly spent two nights together are said to have connected over a shared love of music and exchanged a series of flirty tweets before things became more serious in mid-February.
Last week she posted on Twitter that she was annoyed when people said that when someone moves on it meant they did not love the person they were with before.
The news is expected to come as a devastating blow to Forrest who was arrested in September 2012 when the runaways were spotted in Bordeaux after spending a week on the run.
Just last month it was claimed the girl had written to him in prison to say she still loved him and wanted to rekindle their relationship when he has served his sentence.
It was gathered that Forrest, whose wife left him after his betrayal, was not allowed to read the letters and has been transferred to tough Dartmoor Prison after making a complaint.
Forrest, who taught at Bishop Bell School in East Sussex, first kissed the girl when she was 14. The pair had sex after she turned 15.
When police were alerted they fled to France by ferry, travelling under false names.
He was spotted and arrested eight days later. Last June at Lewes Crown Court he was convicted of sex offences and abduction, and jailed.
Afterwards the girl said: ‘I love Jeremy so much. I want to spend the rest of my life with him and maybe once he’s out, we can marry and have children.
Forrest began his relationship with the girl on a school trip to Los Angeles when she was 14 and was seen holding her hand on the plane – something she claims he was doing to comfort her as she was struggling with bulimia.
She opened up to him about the break-up of her parents’ marriage before he kissed her in a classroom. She said they would have sex in his Ford Fiesta or hotels, which they would check into as Mr and Mrs Forrest.
They were on the run for eight days before being found in Bordeaux where he was arrested in front of her.
He was convicted of child abduction and five counts of sexual activity with a child at Lewes Crown Court last June.
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