BOY TRIED TO PERS ‘OUGAT ONNIE’ AF

THE Harvester Primary School onnie charged with sexual grooming was “blackmailed” by her Grade 7 victim, the Mitchells Plain Magistrates Court heard on Monday.

The juffrou was back in the dock for a bail application and faces charges of sexual grooming of a child and exposing a child to explicit material.

But after she allegedly sent a video of herself with her breasts exposed to the boy and realised her “life was over”, the laaitie demanded R500 to delete the dirty video. 

The court heard testimony from the investigating officer in the matter, Warrant Officer Roland Peters, who told the court that the 35-year-old accused had allegedly instigated conversations on TikTok with the 13-year-old laaitie.

Peters says: “The accused instigated contact with the complainant, asking if the boy is the same person at school and the boy said ‘yes’. 

“The accused requested that the boy call her by her first name after he referred to her as ma’am, because [she said ma’am] it makes her feel old.

“The messages said: ‘don’t f**king call me ma’am call me [by my name]’, after [that] the laaitie allegedly asked for the onnie’s number because ‘he has a good relationship with many teachers abd wants to grow his contacts list’.”

After that they started messaging on WhatsApp.

Peters said that the boy confirmed that he received an explicit video of the onnie wearing provocative clothing, exposing her breasts and her face can be seen clearly.

Peters also said that the accused realised that after she sent the video that she could lose her job and asked the minor to delete it, however he asked her for R500 for it to be erased. He then later dropped the payment as she said “her life is already over”.

The State said they are going to oppose the juffrou’s application for bail, stating it was for her own safety due to the public outrage, and strong media following.

However, the teacher’s lawyer argued that if her client is released on bail that she will give her full cooperation, hand in her cellphone, is not a flight risk, promises not to repeat the same offence and is a first time offender.

The magistrate pointed out that given that she would not undermine the proper functioning of the criminal justice system, she should not remain in custody.

The magistrate said: “The courts are required to lean in favour of granting bail… the State doesn’t worry about the child’s safety or other children.

“It looks like the State has no grounds to oppose her release. Your main reason for no release is because of the public interest.”

The court heard that members of the Mitchells Plain community and parents of the school also brought a petition to oppose the accused’s release on bail.

The matter was postponed to 1 July for the State to properly prepare and for argument.