A wicked married instructor who sexually abused a troubled inmate at a Kentucky juvenile detention heart — after which requested him to kill her husband — will spend greater than a decade behind bars.
Elena Bardin, 27, was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in jail after a jury convicted her of first-degree sexual abuse and illegal transaction with a minor for having express sexual contact with a 17-year-old boy on the Adair County Juvenile Detention Middle, the place she taught English, in line with Court docket TV.
Bardin — mom to a five-year-old lady — was additionally accused of asking the teenager to homicide her husband, however the jury acquitted her of that cost.
The twisted instructor was busted in April when a routine search of the teenager’s room on the lock up uncovered about 193 sexually express letters and pictures she had allegedly despatched to him, in line with authorities.
The choose famous that Bardin admitted to having sexual contact with the inmate in certainly one of her letters.
“The letters you despatched, which they have been juicy, they have been belongings you’d see in a triple-x film, and utterly inappropriate, clearly, and I feel that for a younger man that age,” Circuit Decide Samuel Spalding mentioned at Thursday’s sentencing.
“And for an educator, it was incumbent upon you to set a greater instance. I’ll say although, the 193 pages of letters, footage, every thing else, it depicts a really clever and articulate younger lady who was clearly articulating her ideas and needs to this child.”
Spalding added that Bardin’s supervisor testified that she had been warned to finish the connection and steer clear of the teenager, who at one level was additionally moved to a different part of the detention heart.
“And ma’am, not solely did you not heed that recommendation and cease, it appears to be like to me such as you truly doubled down on the conduct after that, and that’s regarding,” he charged.
Authorities mentioned the perverse letters revealed the deviant educator additionally subjected the teenager to sexual contact and schemed to have him homicide her partner.
The juvenile sufferer testified at trial that he by no means deliberate to observe by with the alleged killing, in line with the Lexington Herald-Chief.
He advised the courtroom their illicit relationship was only a “approach to kill time whereas he was locked up.”
Bardin, who didn’t testify through the two-day trial, shall be required to register as a intercourse offender for 20 years.
