A former Auckland teacher who admitted grooming one of her teenage students and then performing a sexual act on him can now be named.
27-year-old Myah Adams sobbed as Judge Brooke Gibson announced he was sentencing her to two years and one month imprisonment.
She had previously admitted a representative charge of sexual conduct with a 15-year-old student when she was 25.
Adams’ lawyer, Emma Priest, then appealed the sentence, and in a decision released to Stuff, Justice Gerard van Bohemen quashed the jail term and replaced it with 10 months' home detention.
The judge also refused to grant permanent name suppression, and Priest confirmed that no appeal would be filed.
The public interest in knowing the identity of the teacher who committed the offense considerably outweighs the impact of publication on Adams.
The judge says that public interest is not diminished by Adams leaving the teaching profession, which is a likely outcome, even if Adams had not taken that decision herself.
[Source: Stuff.co.nz]
