{"id":253802,"date":"2026-01-27T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/253802\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T07:49:09","slug":"perth-teacher-has-a-baby-after-sexually-abusing-12-year-old-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/253802\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth teacher has a baby after sexually abusing 12-year-old student"},"content":{"rendered":"

A teacher who is believed to have given birth to a 13-year-old student’s baby has admitted sexually abusing the boy for more than a year.<\/p>\n

Naomi Tekea Craig, 33, on Tuesday pleaded guilty to 15 counts of indecently dealing with the youth, including sexual penetration of a child in late 2024, when he was 12 years old.<\/p>\n

Police believe Craig, from Mandurah south of Perth, gave birth to the boy’s child following the alleged incidents between 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n

She appeared in the Mandurah Magistrates Court via audio-link and entered guilty pleas to all the charges before her case was “fast-tracked” to the district court for sentence mention on March 27.<\/p>\n

The magistrate extended Craig’s bail with strict conditions, including no contact with the boy and no unsupervised contact with any children other than her baby, born on January 8.<\/p>\n

The court heard that Craig was excused from appearing in court in person on Tuesday due to a medical condition, but magistrate Clare Cullen told her this could not be extended to her next appearance.<\/p>\n

Western Australian Police previously said Craig engaged in persistent sexual conduct with the student.<\/p>\n

“At the time of the commencement of the alleged offending, the woman was a teacher at a school in the Mandurah District, and the male youth was a student,” a spokesman said.<\/p>\n

\"Where<\/p>\n

Where to get help for sexual violence. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n

Craig was initially charged with four offences in December before prosecutors laid an extra four charges last week.<\/p>\n

An additional eight charges were laid before she appeared in court on Tuesday, including five counts of sexual penetration of a child under 13.<\/p>\n

The offending started in August 2024 and continued until Craig was charged in December.<\/p>\n

Other charges include a person who persistently engaged in sexual conduct with a child under the age of 16 years and possessed child exploitation material.<\/p>\n

Western Australian Police Commissioner Col Blanch has said a DNA test had been conducted after Craig gave birth and it was believed the victim was the father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teacher who is believed to have given birth to a 13-year-old student’s baby has admitted sexually abusing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-253802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-crime-and-justice","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}