A married primary school teacher has been sentenced to nine years in prison after an eleven-year-old boy’s mum discovered evidence of a months-long campaign of abuse
A female teacher has been sentenced to nine years behind bars after her vile behaviour towards a male student. The boy’s mum was the person to find the shocking evidence of the sexual abuse, which had gone on for months behind closed doors and online.
In the shocking case, which was discovered last January, a married primary school teacher was found to have been committing “violent acts of a sexual nature” against a student. While the teacher, Anna Plaksyuk, was 25, the young boy was just 11.
Plaksyuk had received her teaching qualification three years prior to the abuse being discovered, and worked at a school in Toksovo, in the Leningrad region of Russia. At the time the allegations were levelled against her, many parents at the school refused to believe the claims, describing Plakysuk as a “dream teacher”.
Plakysuk launched her campaign of abuse in November 2023, and did not stop until the boy’s mother stumbled across worrying content on his phone on January 31, 2024.
At her court hearing in Russia, it was heard that Plakysuk made the boy touch her breasts and kiss her on the lips. She was also found to have kept him after school and locked him in the classroom with her, where the married teacher “stroked his private parts through his clothes”.
Outside of the classroom, Plakysuk sent nude photos to the 11-year-old on WhatsApp, and insisted that he did the same in return. They also exchanged explicit messages alongside the photos, with the victim’s mother contacting the police and the school director after discovering the horrifying content and accusing the teacher of “systematic flirting, stroking and kissing”.
Talking to the police when she was first detained, Plakysuk confessed to locking the boy in her classroom for their illicit meetings, but seemed to suggest that the desire went both ways. She told cops that she started her campaign after the boy had “shown signs of attention” and “made compliments” to her over the course of several months.
Prior to being sentenced to nine years in prison, Plakysuk had been held in pre-trial detention for more than a year, and the married teacher is now 27. At her hearing, she was convicted of “violent acts of a sexual nature committed against a person under 14 years of age”, and has been banned from teaching for a year after she gets out of jail.
Plakysuk’s husband hasn’t yet spoken on the case, while the boy’s mum revealed that he stayed away from school for a long period of time after the abuser was first detained.
While Plakysuk has been charged with nine years and a following one-year teaching ban, it was initially understood that her sentence could have been much harsher. Lawyer Ilya Rusyaev spoke after she was detained, and explained that she could have faced up to 20 years behind bars and never teach again.
The lawyer said at the time: “This threatens the teacher with 20 years in prison. As a rule, in our country crimes against children are punished very severely, so most likely she will receive a harsh but fair sentence. A child at this age is not only not fully mature but also may not be fully aware of his actions.
“Ultimately, such actions can cause psychological trauma to children. For this purpose, the law establishes an age of consent; in our country, it is 16 years.”
Rusyaev added that her crimes meant that she was “no longer suitable” for teaching – despite it now being ruled that she could one day return to the classroom. He explained: “This is incompatible with educational activities and demonstrates ignorance of the basic psychology of the child. Moreover, this is a violation of the ethics of the profession.”