A former teacher from Wollongong has pleaded guilty to charges of sexually abusing two male students. Tayla Lee Brailey, 32, appeared in Campbelltown Local Court on Wednesday, where she admitted to four offences, including sexual intercourse with a 16-year-old under special care, sexual touching, and two counts of using a carriage service to solicit or transmit child abuse material.
Three additional charges, including sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old under special care, were withdrawn by the prosecution. Magistrate Peter Thompson confirmed the remaining charges would be dropped.
Brailey was first arrested in August 2024 and charged with four offences involving a 17-year-old student. She was granted bail but arrested again less than two weeks later at her Wollongong home over the abuse of a 16-year-old student, facing seven further charges.
The court heard that on July 25, 2024, Brailey sexually touched a 17-year-old male student and used a carriage service to transmit child abuse material. The day before, she had sexual intercourse with a 16-year-old student in a different suburb and accessed child abuse material via a carriage service.
Brailey's defence lawyer, Abbas Soukie, said the agreed facts of the case had not yet been tendered. Magistrate Thompson adjourned the matter for sentencing at Campbelltown District Court on March 26. Brailey left the courtroom with her parents.
