Update in schoolteacher Tayla Brailey’s sex abuse case

A Sydney high school teacher accused of sexually abusing two teenage male students has been hit with new charges, while police have dropped a number of others as negotiations continue.

Tayla Brailey (right, foreground) at Campbelltown Local Court with supporters in October 2024. Picture: NewsWire/Simon Bullard

A Sydney high school teacher accused of sexually abusing two of her teenage male students has been hit with new charges as negotiations between prosecutors and defence continue.

Lurnea High School teacher Tayla Brailey, 30, was charged in August last year over the alleged sexual abuse of a teen male student.

Less than a week after her initial arrest, police laid further charges relating to the alleged sexual abuse of another teenage male student after combing through Brailey’s phone as part of ongoing inquiries.

The Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions has now finalised which charges will proceed to the NSW District Court either for trial or sentence.

Brailey is facing charges of sexual intercourse with a child under authority, sexually touching a child under authority, and a new charge of using a carriage service to access child abuse material in respect of the first student.

Tayla Brailey (right). Picture: NewsWire / Simon Bullard

A charge of aggravated sexual assault of a child under authority was withdrawn.

In respect of the second student, Brailey is charged with sexually touching a person under special care, inciting a person under care to have sexual intercourse, a related offence of inciting a person under care to sexually touch, and a new charge of using a carriage service to transmit child abuse material to herself.

Tayla Brailey (centre) at her wedding, months before the charges were laid. Picture: Instagram

Three other charges relating to alleged solicitation, access or control of child abuse material were withdrawn.

Brailey is yet to enter any pleas.

Police documents previously tendered to the court reveal Brailey is accused of adding the first student on Snapchat, before an incident at her North Wollongong home where she allegedly masturbated the child in a spare bedroom.

On a subsequent occasion, Brailey allegedly had unprotected sex with him in the back of a car.

Tayla Brailey. Picture: Instagram

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.

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.

The matter is next listed for a committal mention at Campbelltown Local Court on May 21.

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