A sex-mad teacher who avoided a jail sentence despite having sex with a 16-year-old student in her car celebrated walking free from court by having more sex and getting pregnant.
Monique Ooms pleaded guilty in March at Latrobe Valley County Court in the state of Victoria, Australia, to four counts of sexual penetration of a child under her supervision and care.
The court heard that Ooms, 31, would pick up the teenage boy in her car late at night and drive him to remote locations so they could have sex.
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Prosecutors said the teenager had been in a "vulnerable situation emotionally" after losing a close friend in a car crash when the affair began.
The boy did not appear as a witness and was reportedly “worried” about what might happen to Ooms.
However, the judge said: “The offence isn’t the penetration, it’s doing it while a teacher.”
The offence carries a potential sentence of 10 years behind bars. But the judge, taking Ooms’s “fragile mental state” into account, decided against a custodial sentence.
Having already given up teaching, she became a bricklayer.
Despite claiming during the pre-sentencing plea hearing that she was infertile it was discovered she was in fact pregnant.
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She was given a four-year community corrections order and told to do 300 hours of community work, but this is being appealed by Victoria's Office of Public Prosecutions.
But as news of her pregnancy emerged, her barrister, Jason Gullaci, has been using the pregnancy news as a way of making sure his client avoids prison.
He told the court this week: “Sometimes it can be argued that things happen at rather convenient timing. The date of conception – as we work it out – was the last week of March 2023.
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“It's about a month before the notice of appeal was served. So at that point she has just been sentenced and there's no understanding that she's going to be subjected to an appeal.
“It is a high risk pregnancy not only because of her fertility issues, but because of her mental health issues.
“She did as a consequence of the fertility issues and the appeal on foot have and did give consideration to whether she would terminate the pregnancy.”
A date for the appeal decision has not yet been made.
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