{"id":313648,"date":"2026-03-05T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/313648\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T04:00:09","slug":"australian-teacher-admits-having-sex-with-teenage-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/313648\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian teacher admits having sex with teenage student"},"content":{"rendered":"

A disgraced teacher has pleaded guilty to having sex with a 17-year-old student and sexually touching a younger student while they were both under her care.<\/p>\n

Tayla Lee Brailey was arrested last August at a school in southwest Sydney, accused of having sex with the 17-year-old during class hours near the high school where she taught.<\/p>\n

The 32-year-old was also charged with sexually touching a 16-year-old student and inciting to have sex with her.<\/p>\n

More than 18 months after she was charged, Brailey pleaded guilty in Campbelltown Local Court on Wednesday to having sex with the 17-year-old student and sexually touching the younger student in separate incidents.<\/p>\n

Information tending to identify either child cannot be published for legal reasons, preventing media from naming the school where Brailey worked.<\/p>\n

The former teacher also pleaded guilty to using a carriage service to access child abuse material and transmit child abuse material to herself.<\/p>\n

Five other charges, including inciting the 16-year-old to have sex with her and aggravated sexual assault of a victim under her authority, were withdrawn by the prosecution.<\/p>\n

Brailey will be sentenced in the NSW District Court on a date that will be decided when she returns to court later in March.<\/p>\n

She remains on bail under strict conditions which prohibit her from entering any educational institution or being in the company of a child unless a carer is present.<\/p>\n

\"Where<\/p>\n

Where to get help for sexual violence. (Source: 1News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A disgraced teacher has pleaded guilty to having sex with a 17-year-old student and sexually touching a younger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":313649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[85,67,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-313648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-australia","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313648","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=313648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}