Boy-fiddling Miss has jail sentence cut

A FEMALE teacher jailed for sexually abusing a boy has lost her appeal against conviction, but has had nine months’ jail cut from her sentence – because she’s mental.

The Court of Appeal said Stacey Reriti, 32, must have appreciated what she had done was wrong, despite having mental health problems.

At her appeal hearing earlier this month, Reriti ( above) continued to deny sexual acts with the boy but agreed the evidence showed she sent him sexually explicit text messages.

Reriti, who had been co- deputy principal at Natone Park School in Porirua, New Zealand, was sentenced in late 2015 to 10- and- a- half years’ prison after a jury found her guilty of repeatedly sexually violating the boy and performing an indecent act upon him.

The court said the sentencing judge was not given expert information about the effect of her mental condition and history on her ability to recognise appropriate boundaries.

The Court of Appeal said Reriti’s condition would likely also make a prison term harder for her to serve.

It reduced the sentence from 10 years six months’ jail to nine years and nine months’ to take account of those factors.