A FEMALE PE teacher who molested a 14-year-old boy after grooming him with relentless naked videos is now back on the streets.

Glamourous Katie Elizabeth Smith, 30, also bombarded the teenager with sexually explicit messages and photos before getting the boy into a store cupboard where she fondled him.

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Court records in Australia show how Smith “wanted to be told I was pretty” during the months-long affair with the minor.

Paedo Smith was later convicted and jailed for a maximum three years and ten months jail, after her attempt to blame the affair on the child failed to convince cops.

But it was revealed on Friday that in February the New South Wales Court of Criminal Appeal had reduced her sentence by 18-months.

Now it has emerged she was released from prison on February 8, 2022.

Shocking new details have now emerged of how Smith conducted the affair with the minor, including how the lad left class at the New South Wales Hunter Valley school “to get a drink”, Daily Mail Australia reports.

Smith then pounced on the kid, snogging and touching him on the outside of his sports shorts.

But the paedo urged him to stay silent and warned he would get “into trouble” with police if he didn’t do as she said. 

The boy – who was not a student of Smith’s – returned to class after their encounter.

But it was not the only time Smith – who in photos can be seen dressed as a Playboy Bunny with a corset – threw herself on the student.

They also met in a car park where they kissed and performed sex acts, according to reports.

Smith’s criminal acts with the minor began with grooming sometime after July 1, 2018 after they saw each other at the school and the boy added Smith on social media app Snapchat.

One week after exchanging standard Snapchat greetings, the messages became sexual and quickly spiralled out of control.

The boy sent Smith a photo of his genitals, and she responded with one of her bare breasts covered by her hands, to which he sent another explicit image of himself.

She replied with a picture of her hand on the outside of her underwear.

Multiple sexual images were then exchanged between the boy and Smith over a sexually charged whirlwind five-months.

In all the lad sent three photos of his privates, one of himself naked and one video of himself naked or engaging in a sexual act.

While the 26-year-old teacher responded with five intimate photos of herself and two videos of herself – one was of her performing a sex act.

SECRET PHONE CALL

The exchanges ended on December 22, 2019, when the boy went on holidays with his family and had no internet access.

The NSW Court of Criminal Appeal judgment outlining reasons why Smith has been allowed out from behind bars early also describes how long after she was caught she blamed the schoolboy for instigating the sex affair.

It also reveals that on the day NSW Police told Smith turned up to arrest her – February 14, 2019 – Ms Smith secretly rang the schoolboy, who had just turned 15.

Smith was arrested and charged with grooming a child for unlawful sexual activity, indecent assault of a person under 16 and intentionally sexually touching a child between 10 and 16.

The Court of Criminal Appeal judgement read: “When the victim phoned her that day she told him that the police were at her home and that he should not tell anyone what had occurred between them as they would both ‘get into trouble’ and asked the victim to delete her number.”

It added: “Even when she was being sentenced, Smith still sought to ‘minimise her behaviour and to deflect blame … onto the child victim”.

In sentencing Smith, District Court Judge Kara Shead accepted the teacher had a borderline personality disorder and was seeking therapy, but had said this did not reduce her moral culpability. 

The judge noted the “absolute prohibition on sexual activity with a child” and the serious breach of trust involved in Smith’s conduct.

She said Smith had preyed on the victim and exploited his vulnerability. 

Courts must send “a stern message” that sexual crimes against children, particularly by teachers, is unacceptable, the judge said.

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