A former dance teacher has been jailed for at least two years over the "brazen" sexual assault of his 14-year-old student.

Bruce Lawrence Henries was 50 years older than the teenager he sexually assaulted in 2004.

He was driving her home from a dance class, where he had recruited her to serve as his assistant teacher, when he made a detour.

Henries took the girl to the house he shared with his elderly mother in Sydney's west, sexually assaulting her in a granny flat on the property.

In a panicked call to another dance teacher, Henries later asked them to inquire about whether the teenager was pregnant.

The sexual assault came after Henries indecently assaulted her on "many occasions," the court was told.

NSW District Court Judge David Arnott noted the "significant age gap" and relian

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