Monday, November 17, 2025 - A married teacher who s£xually abused a troubled inmate at a Kentucky juvenile detention center and then asked him to k!ll her husband will spend more than a decade behind bars.
Elena Bardin, 27, was sentenced to 14 years in prison after
a jury convicted her of first-degree s£xual abuse and unlawful transaction with
a minor for having explicit sexual contact with a 17-year-old boy at the Adair
County Juvenile Detention Center, where she taught English, according to
Court TV.
Bardin, mother to a five-year-old girl, was also accused of
asking the teen to murd£r her husband, but the jury acquitted her of that
charge.
The twisted teacher was busted in April when a routine
search of the teen’s room at the lock-up uncovered about 193 sexually explicit
letters and photos she had allegedly sent to him, according to
authorities.
The judge noted that Bardin admitted to having s£xual
contact with the inmate in one of her letters.
“The letters you sent, which they were juicy, they were
things you’d see in a triple-x movie, and completely inappropriate, obviously,
and I think you know that for a young man that age,” Circuit Judge Samuel
Spalding said at Thursday’s sentencing.
“And for an educator, it was incumbent upon you to set a
better example. I will say though, the 193 pages of letters, pictures,
everything else, it depicts a very intelligent and articulate young woman who
was clearly articulating her thoughts and desires to this kid.”
Spalding added that Bardin’s supervisor testified that she
had been warned to end the relationship and stay away from the teen, who at one
point was also moved to another section of the detention center.
“And ma’am, not only did you not heed that advice and stop,
it looks to me like you actually doubled down on the behavior after that, and
that is concerning,” he charged.
He told the court their illicit relationship was just a “way
to kill time while he was locked up.”
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