Female teacher Monique Ooms had secret sex with a 16-year old boy...but avoids ... trends now

Female teacher Monique Ooms had secret sex with a 16-year old boy...but avoids ... trends now
Female teacher Monique Ooms had secret sex with a 16-year old boy...but avoids ... trends now

Female teacher Monique Ooms had secret sex with a 16-year old boy...but avoids ... trends now

A female teacher who admitted to having sex with her 16-year-old student in the backseat of her car has avoided jail after the judge deemed she was not a predator. 

Monique Ooms, 31, of Maffra, was sentenced on Friday by County Court of Victoria Judge John Smallwood to a four year community corrections order, with 300 hours of community work for the crime.

She pleaded guilty this month in Victoria's Latrobe Valley County Court to four counts of sexual penetration of a child under her supervision and care. 

Monique Ooms, 31, of Maffra repeatedly had sex with her young student. She will not spend a minute behind bars for her crime

Monique Ooms, 31, of Maffra repeatedly had sex with her young student. She will not spend a minute behind bars for her crime 

The former teacher now works as a bricklayer

She appears to have embraced her new lifestyle

The 31-year-old appears to have embraced her new tradie life and has posted photos of herself wearing an Akubra in front of a 4WD on her social media pages

Over 30 minutes, Judge Smallwood outlined the contributions to society Ooms had contributed and the hardship she had endured in the community after being outed as a child sex offender. 

The court heard Ooms had been abused in the street by strangers and was sacked from her jobs at a pharmacy and the local pub. 

Her local Country Fire Association had given her the boot and the footy club no longer wanted a bar of her. 

Ooms had faced a maximum penalty of 10 years in jail. 

The court heard Ooms' young victim - who was just a few weeks short of turning 17 -  had snuck out in the dead of night to have sex with his then school teacher. 

The 16-year-old had been grieving the loss of a close friend who died in a fatal car crash the week before and was in a 'vulnerable situation emotionally'.

But Judge Smallwood made it clear he did not believe Ooms was a sexual predator. 

'I might say from the outset I do not find this offending was in any way, shape or form predatory,' he said. 

'It was an utterly inappropriate relationship that escalated. You were both aware of the legal wrongness of it all.'

While Judge Smallwood accepted the crime carried a jail sentence, he had difficulties in doing so because of the age of the student, he said. 

'This is a situation where the victim was within a month of his 17th birthday. Questions of the consent, the presumption of harm -  all sorts of questions are going to be answered in time,' he said. 

Judge Smallwood said he accepted Ooms had shown remorse for her offending and learnt the error of her ways. 

'I accept that you now have insight into the potential dangers to your victim, if I can put it that way,' he said. 

Monique Ooms, 31, pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual penetration of a child under her supervision and care in Latrobe Valley County Court

Monique Ooms, 31, pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual penetration of a child under her supervision and care in Latrobe Valley County Court

The former teacher (right) had reached out to the student after noticing he was more withdrawn and offered her Instagram handle, and later her phone number

The former teacher (right) had reached out to the student after noticing he was more withdrawn and offered her Instagram handle, and later her phone number

During a preliminary hearing earlier this month, Judge Smallwood said he had never dealt with a case involving a teacher where the child wasn't aged under 16. 

The experienced judge said he was concerned whether or not Ooms' victim had actually been harmed by their illicit liaisons. 

'Often in these situations the harm is what comes from other people after it becomes public,' he said. 

Judge Smallwood said while Ooms' victim was a school student, he was not a child aged under 16. 

'There has clearly been discussion between he and her about the wrongfulness of it. He nevertheless consents and makes that very clear,' he said. 

The student declined being involved with court

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