Illinois substitute teacher had sex with boy at 'playdates': cops
Disgraced sub Alley Bardfield, 34, also exchanged messages and explicit photos with the boy over SnapChat and sent him hundreds of dollars through CashApp over several months, a police statement alleges.
The sixth-grade victim's mother discovered $700 in CashApp payments from Bardfield when she checked her son's phone after noticing his behavior had changed following a stayover at the teacher's house in Mount Zion, according to a sworn police statement obtained by WCIA.
Illinois substitute teacher Alley Bardfield, 34, had sex with her 11-year-old student during 'playdates' at her house, cops say.
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The mom confronted her son, who told her he had unprotected sex with Bardfield, the document said.
Bardfield, who pleaded guilty to predatory criminal sexual assault this past week, had been the boy's teacher at the Hope Academy public school in Decatur at the time of the abuse between 2023 and 2024, the outlet said.
The substitute teacher invited the boy to multiple 'play dates' at her home in 2023 and then twice in March 2024, during which time the pair had two sexual encounters, according to a lawsuit filed by the child's parents and seen by WCIA.
The 34-year-old woman faces up to 40 years in prison.
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In a police interview, the disgraced educator claimed the child had made sexual advances toward her first the night they had sex, WICS reported.
She was fired by Decatur Public Schools when the abuse came to light in April last year.
The pervert appeared in court in Macon County on Thursday for a disposition hearing at which she reached a partial plea deal with prosecutors.
Bardfield faces up to 40 years in prison, although the exact sentence has not been agreed upon yet.
Predatory criminal sexual assault is punishable by up to 60 years in prison, but the state agreed to cap its recommended sentence for Bardfield to 40 years as part of the plea deal.
She will be sentenced Sept. 25.
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