A HIGH school teacher who confessed to grooming a teen can now be named.
The sick former teacher performed sexual acts on a 15-year-old boy after repeatedly flirting with him on Snapchat .
Myah Adams, 27, from Auckland, New Zealand , hoped to remain anonymous – but a judge has ruled to lift the anonymity order and unmask her.
He ruled that it was in the public interest to expose her – and that it outweighs her suffering from a bad rep.
He said there was a significant breach of trust in this case given Mrs Adams was a teacher.
But her other wish was granted.
The perv – whose reputation now lies in tatters – sobbed as the judge sentenced her to two years and one month of imprisonment.
But Mrs Adams was let off the hook – almost. Her sentence was swapped for 10 months of home detention.
It was partly because of the impact imprisonment would have on her young daughter.
The teacher gave the underage boy vapes, booze and even her credit card to manipulate him.
She showered him in compliments and flirted heavily online.
The teacher even took grooming to a new level by taking him out of school to the hairdresser’s.
They went to the cinema, where she performed a sexual act on him.
After driving him to a secluded car park for more action, Mrs Adams tried to hush up what she’d done.
She asked the unnamed boy to keep it “on the low down” then started sending him nudes on Snapchat.
The pervy teacher’s lawyer argued that the risk of re-offending was low, and the age gap apparently wasn’t very big.
But the victim’s mental health had already taken a hit. His grades fell behind his peers as he spiralled into psychological turmoil.
Despite this, the court agreed to take her off the Child Sex Offenders Register. They decided she poses no future threat to children.
The victim and his family opposed her being allowed anonymity.
Judge Brooke Gibson said: “The public interest in knowing the identity of the teacher who committed the offending considerably outweighs the impact of publication on Ms Adams.
“That public interest is not diminished by Ms Adams leaving the teaching profession, which is a likely outcome, even if Ms Adams had not taken that decision herself.”
