Monica Young pleads guilty to sexually assaulting student
A teacher has been told she faces jail after coming clean to a sexual assault of one of her students just months before she was due to get married.
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A young female schoolteacher has admitted sexually assaulting a teenage male student on multiple occasions only months before her planned wedding to her long-term partner.
Monica Young, 24, spent weeks behind bars on remand in July last year when she was charged with 10 sexual offences against a student at a Sydney high school.
Initially the Greenacre woman strenuously denied the allegations and was due to face trial at Sydney District Court in September.
Now, after negotiations between her high-profile counsel Margaret Cunneen SC and the Crown, Young has pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated sexual assault and one count of intentionally sexually touching a child.
The court has heard custody is now the only option for Young, but police decided against making a detention application so Young can seek a sentencing assessment report in the community.
She will remain on strict conditional bail akin to house arrest and continue living with her grandmother in Yagoona ahead of her sentence.
Some grave details of Young’s offences were unveiled at previous court appearances, where police said she communicated with the teen via Snapchat.
“When it was identified that Snapchat was being used to communicate with the complainant, (Young) continued her use of that service by presenting herself under an assumed name so she could continue to have sexual interactions with the complainant,” the police prosecutor said at Bankstown Local Court in July 2020.
“We can see in the interactions her becoming aware of the circumstances and she has continued to attempt to communicate with the complainant.”
Police previously said a review of Young’s computer had revealed evidence of their relationship, along with CCTV footage of the pair together.
Young was due to wed her partner of six years and the pair had celebrated their engagement before the shocking charges and her time behind bars.
The court will also consider three additional sexual offences in its assessment of an appropriate sentence for Young.
Young returns to Sydney District Court for a sentence hearing before Judge Kate Traill on June 24.
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