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   From: losers@dnc.org   
      
   A former teacher at a prestigious high school in Adelaide has   
   been jailed for at least two years for sexually exploiting one   
   of her students.   
      
   Key points:   
   Teacher Sonia Ruth Mackay wept as she was sentenced for sexually   
   exploiting a student   
   Judge said Mackay's offending was "unforgivable"   
   She said the teacher breached the trust of the boy, her employer   
   and the community   
   Sonia Ruth Mackay, 43, pleaded guilty to persistent sexual   
   exploitation of a child in September.   
      
   The District Court heard she groomed a 17-year-old boy before   
   having unlawful sex with him numerous times including at her   
   house, at his family's home and in public areas including in a   
   lift and in a city car park.   
      
   Judge Liesl Chapman said Mackay drank alcohol and smoked   
   cigarettes and cannabis with the victim and bought him expensive   
   presents.   
      
   "In light of what you were doing and the way you were doing it,   
   it is evident to me that you could not have been thinking   
   straight," Judge Chapman said.   
      
   "You seemed to have lost touch with reality and were living in   
   some sort of fantasy land."   
      
   Judge Chapman said Mackay's offending had a devastating impact   
   on the victim and his family.   
      
   "The victim's mother said she does not pity you because you are   
   a grown woman, a teacher, a mother and a wife who she says   
   manipulated her son's emotions to meet your own selfish needs,"   
   she said.   
      
   "Your behaviour causes a feeling of outrage, quite rightly, in   
   the community.   
      
   "Your behaviour was manipulative and unforgivable."   
      
   Student should have been 'safe' at school   
   Mackay wept as she was sentenced to four years and five months   
   in prison.   
      
   The court heard a psychiatric assessment found Mackay was at a   
   low risk of sexual reoffending and that she was sorry for the   
   pain and suffering she had caused her victim and his family.   
      
   However, Judge Chapman said suspending the sentence would not   
   adequately deter others from engaging in such behaviour.   
      
   "It was an emotionally charged and sexually intense month, I   
   take into account that your victim was at the upper end of the   
   age range for this offending… and it was close to end of his   
   time at the school."   
      
   "Nevertheless, he had been your student that year… he should   
   have been safe at school, there to develop and mature in his own   
   time."   
      
   She said Mackay's offending was a gross breach of trust.   
      
   "You breached the trust of him as a teacher, you breached the   
   trust of his parents and siblings… you breached the trust of   
   your employer, you breached the trust of the school community."   
      
   Judge Chapman said she understood "jail would be difficult and   
   crushing" and imposed a non-parole period of two years and one   
   month.   
      
   "In all of the circumstances I think you would benefit from a   
   long time on parole," she said.   
      
   As she was taken into custody, Mackay told her family who were   
   visibly upset, that she loved them.   
      
   Dreams 'shattered' and 'stolen'   
   During a pre-sentencing hearing, the court heard emotional   
   victim impact statements from the teenager and his parents.   
      
   The boy's mother told the court Mackay had asked for her son's   
   mobile phone number under the guise that she was helping him   
   with his school work.   
      
   She said Mackay exploited her son and stole his innocence.   
      
   "He didn't return home for days at a time. I had no idea where   
   he was sleeping or who he was with, was he safe, or worse," she   
   said.   
      
   "When he attempted to come home she bought him expensive   
   underwear and gifts so he had no excuse but to stay with her."   
      
   The court heard Mackay had sent the victim sexually explicit   
   text messages and that his DNA was found on sheets at the home   
   she shared with her husband and young children.   
      
   In a statement read to the court, the victim said he felt   
   ashamed and embarrassed about what happened and felt like he had   
   lost two years of his life.   
      
   "My dreams were shattered and stolen from me… and I can now see   
   how I was purely being used," he said.   
      
   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-12-12/adelaide-teacher-jailed-   
   for-sex-with-student/10609748   
       
      
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