Married teacher forced student, 11, to touch her, send explicit pics
A married primary school teacher has been jailed after she committed 'violent acts of a sexual nature' against one of her students and forced the boy to touch her breasts.
Anna Plaksyuk, 27, also made the 11-year-old child kiss her on the lips and 'stroked' his genitals 'through his clothes,' when she kept him behind after class and locked the door, a court in the Leningrad region of Russia was told.
She also sent explicit nude pictures to the boy and demanded he send her photographs in return, the New York Post reports.
Plaksyuk, who was 25 at the time of the abuse, has since been locked up for nine years after the 'violent acts of a sexual nature committed against a person under 14 years of age' were exposed.
She was also banned from teaching for a further year after her release, according to reports in RuNews24.
The 'popular' teacher's abuse came to light after her victim's mother found explicit messages and photos between the pair on her son's WhatsApp.
She accused the teacher of 'systematic flirting, stroking and kissing,' and reported her to the school's principal in the town of Toksovo in the northern outskirts of St. Petersburg.
The primary school educator blamed the boy for instigating the sick abuse in November 2023, which was going on for four months before she was caught.
Plaksyuk claimed the boy had 'shown signs of attention' and 'made compliments to her' in the months before the abuse started, she told police.
The boy did not go to school for some time after Plaksyuk was arrested, his mother told local reporters.
Many parents were said to be shocked by the revelations and didn't believe the allegations about her, according to local reports.
She was described as a 'dream teacher' by one parent, while colleagues said there were no signs of her 'dark side,' local reports said.
Plaksyuk has spent the past year in pre-trial detention following her arrest in February last year.
Her husband has not commented on his wife's conviction, and it's unclear whether the couple is still together.
Plaksyuk's social media accounts have been made private but one status is still viewable.
'You can't hold a man back with anything — not with children, not with youth, not with your stomach, not with blackmail, not with hysterics,' it reads.
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