Former teacher Tayla Lee Brailey pleads guilty to sexual abuse of students
Former teacher Tayla Brailey has pleaded guilty to four sexual offences involving students. (Facebook)
In short:
Former teacher Tayla Brailey was arrested twice in 2024 and charged with sexual offences involving students.
The 32-year-old today pleaded guilty to four charges, while three others were dropped.
What's next?
She will be sentenced in the Campbelltown District Court later this month.
A woman who once taught at a Sydney school has pleaded guilty to the sexual abuse of two students.
Tayla Lee Brailey, 32, admitted to four offences, including one count of sexual intercourse with someone 16 years old under special care, one count of sexual touching, and two counts of using a carriage service to solicit or transmit child abuse material.
Magistrate Peter Thompson told the Campbelltown Local Court on Wednesday that the remaining three sexual abuse charges, including sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old under special care, would be withdrawn.
Tayla Brailey (2nd from left) has been on conditional bail since August 2024. (ABC Illawarra: Brooke Chandler)
Brailey was arrested in August 2024 and charged with four sexual abuse offences relating to a 17-year-old male student.
She was granted conditional bail but arrested again less than two weeks later at her Wollongong home over the abuse of a 16-year-old male student and charged with another seven offences.
The matter was moved from Wollongong to Campbelltown Local Court last year. (ABC Illawarra: Brooke Chandler)
Brailey has been on strict conditional bail on seven certified charges since, with the case subject to repeated delays.
Neither the victim's name, the school Brailey taught at or the locations of her offending can be revealed for legal reasons.
The court heard on July 25, 2024, Brailey sexually touched a male student aged 17 and that month used a carriage service to transmit child abuse material to herself.
"Guilty, your honour," Brailey told the court as Magistrate Thompson read the two charges aloud.
The court heard Brailey also had sexual intercourse with a 16-year-old male student in a different NSW suburb the day before and used a carriage service during that same month to access child abuse material.
Defence lawyer Abbas Soukie appearing at Campbelltown Local Court in October. (ABC Illawarra: Brooke Chandler)
Brailey's defence lawyer, Abbas Soukie, told the court the agreed facts of the case were yet to be tendered.
"There are still some disputed facts," he said.
Magistrate Thompson told the court the matter would proceed to sentencing at Campbelltown District Court on March 26.
Brailey left the courtroom with her parents immediately afterwards.