A married female teacher in Illinois has admitted that she took an 11-year-old pupil home for ‘play dates’ before r@ping him.
Alley Bardfield, 34, is set to be sentenced in September after pleading guilty to predatory criminal ass@ult against a sixth-grade student.
The former Decatur Public Schools substitute teacher admitted the crime after reaching a plea deal with prosecutors over the sole count against her.
In April 2024, the victim’s parents filed a lawsuit saying he visited her home in Mount Zion for ‘play dates’ the month before.
‘The victim’s mother reported noticing her son acting differently after a visit to Bardfield’s house,’ Mount Zion Police said in a statement last year.
‘As a result, she checked her son’s phone and social media. In a follow up discussion with her son, he disclosed having had a s£xual encounter with Bardfield while a guest at her Mt. Zion residence on March 29, 2024.’
The boy’s mother said she looked through his phone and found texts between her son and the teacher and photographs of them ‘flipping of the camera’ together.
She also discovered the teacher had allegedly sent her son $700 over several months.
The horrified mother took him to HSHS St John’s Hospital, where staff administered a rape kit.
Detectives interviewed the boy shortly afterwards, and he told them Bardfield took her to his bedroom, where they kissed and she took off both their clothes.
They then had sex on her bed, which she usually shares with her husband Casey Newton Bardfield, a construction worker.
Police devised a plan with the boy and his mother to get Bardfield to incriminate herself in text messages and recorded calls with him.
The boy sent her a message telling her he was going out of town, but hoped to see her again when he came back.
‘I love you and I miss you, Alley. When I come back I’ll see if I can come over,’ he wrote.
Bardfield allegedly replied: ‘You’re always welcome. I love and miss you too.’
Police obtained a court order for a wiretap and had the boy call Bardfield later that day, when she told him ‘her tubes are tied and that she cannot get pregnant’.