Lurnea school teacher Tayla Brailey has bail conditions relaxed on student sex charges
Lurnea High School teacher Tayla Brailey notched up a small win in court after a magistrate agreed to relax one of her bail conditions. See why.
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A married Sydney high school teacher accused of sexually abusing two of her teenage male students has had her bail conditions relaxed to attend a treatment program.
Lurnea High School teacher Tayla Brailey, 30, was charged in August 2024 over the alleged sexual abuse of a teen male student and granted conditional bail.
Less than a week later, she was hit with further charges relating to the alleged sexual abuse of a second male student after police combed through her mobile phone, which they had seized as part of their investigation.
During an earlier court appearance, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions green-lighted the charges it will proceed with at trial, including sexual intercourse with a child under authority, sexually touching a child under authority, and using a carriage service to access child abuse material.
In Campbelltown Local Court on Wednesday, Brailey’s legal team sought a variation to her strict bail conditions to allow her to leave the house on her own to attend an outpatient program.
The nature of the program was not revealed in court, however Brailey’s previous bail conditions prohibited her from leaving her home unless in the company of her parents.
Documents previously tendered to the court and sighted by The Daily Telegraph reveal police will allege a newly wed Brailey added the first student on Snapchat before engaging in sexually explicit conversations with him, including exchanging photographs and videos of her performing sexual acts.
She allegedly invited the teen to her North Wollongong apartment where she masturbated him in an upstairs bedroom.
It is further alleged Brailey was on duty at the school about a week later when she contacted the boy and arranged to meet him off site.
Police will allege they had unprotected sex in the back of Brailey’s car, before she went to a pharmacy to buy the morning-after pill.
Brailey is further accused of masturbating the second teen in her classroom, before attempting to incite him into having sex with her, which did not occur.
Police allege she “spontaneous admissions” about her conduct when she was arrested by detectives at her work.
At the time, a Department of Education spokesman confirmed Brailey was suspended without pay and support was being provided to students and staff at the school.
Brailey was supported in court on Wednesday by family.
Her other bail conditions, which include a prohibition on her using social media or contacting anyone under the age of 16.
The matter is next listed for mention in May.
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