A married physical education teacher accused of sexually abusing teenage boys has dismissed questions about the allegations as details about more new charges are revealed.
Flanked by her parents and sister, Tayla Brailey, 30, kept her head down and hugged her sister tightly as she walked to Campbelltown Local Court on Wednesday.
Brailey has been out on bail since she was charged in August with allegedly sexually abusing two students, aged 16 and 17, whom she met while working at a school in Sydney’s southwest.
She remained silent as she entered court, and her mother put a protective hand on her back as the media peppered her with questions about the allegations.
Brailey was initially arrested over allegations about the 17-year-old, before being charged with new crimes ten days later, when police allegedly discovered messages relating to the 16-year-old on her phone.
According to police documents filed in court, Brailey allegedly sent the 16-year-old boy videos of herself performing sex acts in the shower and writing, “I’m horny for you.”
He also allegedly told her not to tell anyone about their conversations because she was worried her husband would find out.
In another incident, she allegedly masturbated the teen in her classroom and then tried to lure him into having sex with her by pulling down his pants and underwear.
Tayla Brailey is pictured arriving at court with her family on Wednesday.
Tayla Lee Brailey, 30, has been charged with allegedly sexually touching teenage boys.
In court on Wednesday, Brailey’s lawyer, Abbas Soukie, asked magistrate Rana Daher for a four-week adjournment.
The defense said it had yet to receive the prosecution’s brief of evidence despite “repeated attempts to contact the officer in charge.”
Soukie also said he intended to file an application to modify Brailey’s bail, but the documents could not be submitted without consulting with prosecutors.
Magistrate Daher adjourned the case and granted Mr Soukie’s request that his client not have to be present at the next court hearing.
As reporters left court, Brailey’s father waved his hand as his mother scoffed: “Here go the superstars.”
Brailey was arrested by her first alleged victim, a 17-year-old, on Aug. 6 and charged with sexual touching, sexual intercourse with a person in care and aggravated sexual assault.
Brailey married her partner in September last year after getting engaged in December 2021.
According to police documents filed in court, Brailey allegedly had sex with the teen in a car near the school before going to a pharmacy to buy the morning-after pill.
She also allegedly sent him sexually explicit videos and performed a sex act on him at her marital home in West Wollongong in front of one of the boy’s friends.
According to court documents, he also allegedly sexually abused the 16-year-old boy at around the same time.
Police will allege that the classroom sex incident with the 16-year-old boy occurred on July 25, a day before she had sex with the 17-year-old boy in the car.
In total, she has been charged with six offenses related to the 16-year-old: attempting to incite sexual intercourse with a person in care, sexually touching a person in care, inciting a person in care to sexually touch and soliciting, accessing and possess or control child abuse material.
At a court hearing following his second arrest, his former lawyer, Patrick Schmidt, told the court that his client strenuously denied the allegations.
He held his sister’s arm and did not answer reporters’ questions as he entered the courtroom.
Brailey is pictured during an outing with his parents in Wollongong in August.
He said she had seen a doctor and been given a preliminary diagnosis of bipolar disorder, which he said sometimes carries traits of “hypersexuality.”
Brailey’s arrest came just 11 months after he married his long-term partner in a lavish ceremony at The Grange Golf Club in Wollongong.
Under her strict bail conditions, Brailey must live at her parents’ home in Wollongong, leave the residence only if accompanied by one of her parents, comply with a curfew from 9:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. and report to the police three times a week.
He is also prohibited from accessing social networks, entering Lurnea, contacting his alleged victims or prosecution witnesses, being in any educational center or being in the presence of a minor unless the child is in the company of a parent or guardian.
Brailey will next face Campbelltown Local Court on October 30.
