A married gym teacher accused of sexually assaulting teenage boys has dismissed questions about the allegations as details of further new charges against her emerge.
Flanked by her parents and sister, Tayla Brailey, 30, kept her head down and held her sister tightly as she walked into Campbelltown Local Court on Wednesday.
Brailey has been on bail since she was charged in August after sexually assaulting two students aged 16 and 17, whom she met while working at a school in Sydney’s south-west.
Her mother placed a protective hand on her back as the media bombarded her with questions about the allegations.
Brailey was initially arrested on charges relating to a 17-year-old boy, before being charged with further offenses ten days later when police allegedly discovered messages on her phone relating to a 16-year-old.
According to police documents submitted to the court, Brailey allegedly sent the 16-year-old boy videos of herself performing sex acts in the shower, writing: “I’m horny for you.”
She also allegedly told him not to tell anyone about their conversations because she was afraid her husband would find out.
In another incident, she allegedly masturbated the teen in her classroom and then tried to entice him to have sex with her by pulling down her pants and underwear.
Tayla Brailey arrives at court with her family on Wednesday
Tayla Lee Brailey, 30, has been charged with sexually touching teenage boys
On Wednesday, Brailey’s lawyer Abbas Soukie asked magistrate Rana Daher for a four-week adjournment.
The defense said it had not yet received the prosecution’s evidence despite “repeated attempts to contact the officer responsible.”
Mr Soukie also said he intended to apply to vary Brailey’s bail, but the documents could not be submitted without consultation with the prosecutor.
Magistrate Daher adjourned the case and agreed to Mr Soukie’s request that his client not have to attend the next court hearing.
As reporters left the court, Brailey’s father waved his hand as her mother mocked, “There go the superstars.”
Brailey was arrested on August 6 for her first alleged victim – a 17-year-old boy – and charged with sexual touching, sexual intercourse with a person under treatment and aggravated sexual assault.
Brailey married her partner in September last year after getting engaged in December 2021
According to police documents filed in court, Brailey allegedly had sex with the teen in a car near the school before going to a pharmacy to get the morning-after pill.
She also allegedly sent him sexually explicit videos and performed a sex act on him at her marital home in West Wollongong, in the presence of one of the boy’s friends.
She also allegedly sexually assaulted the 16-year-old boy around the same time, according to court documents.
Police will allege the sex incident with the 16-year-old boy in the classroom took place on July 25 – a day before she had sex with the 17-year-old in the car.
In total, she has been charged with six crimes relating to the 16-year-old: attempting to incite sexual intercourse with a person under care, sexually touching a person under care, inciting sexual contact with a person under care, and soliciting, accessing, possessing or controlling child abuse material.
During a hearing after her second arrest, her previous lawyer Patrick Schmidt told the court that his client strongly denied the allegations.
She linked arms with her sister and did not answer questions from reporters as she walked into court
Brailey is pictured on an outing with her parents in Wollongong in August
He said she saw a doctor and was given a preliminary diagnosis of bipolar disorder, which he said sometimes involves features of “hypersexuality.”
Brailey’s arrest came just 11 months after she married her long-time partner in a lavish ceremony at The Grange Golf Club in Wollongong.
Under her strict bail conditions, Brailey must live at her parents’ home in Wollongong, only leave the home when accompanied by one of them, adhere to a 9pm to 7am curfew and report to police three times a week.
She is also prohibited from accessing social media, entering Lurnea, contacting her alleged victims or prosecution witnesses, being at an educational institution or in the presence of a minor unless the child is in the company of a parent or guardian.
Brailey is due to appear in Campbelltown Local Court on October 30.