A teacher will be in court today charged over the alleged grooming and indecent assault of a 15-year-old schoolboy at a high school in the Hunter region.
On Wednesday (13 February 2019), officers from Lake Macquarie Police District were told a 26-year-old female teacher had allegedly been sending explicit images of herself to a student at a high school where she was employed.
Following inquiries, the woman was arrested at a home in Wyee at 11pm yesterday (Thursday 14 February 2019), and taken to Toronto Police Station.
She has now been charged with,
• Groom child for unlawful activity
• Aggravated indecent assault – victim under the age of 16
• Aggravated sexually touch another person (three counts).
The woman has been refused bail to appear in Toronto Local Court today (Friday 15 February 2019).