A Kentucky teacher is accused by authorities of soliciting a minor to kill her husband.
Elena Bardin, 27, is currently in custody and facing multiple charges following an investigation by detectives with the Kentucky State Police.
That investigation was launched after a routine search of a boy’s room at the Adair Juvenile Detention Center turned up “letters and explicit material” which had allegedly been sent to the minor by a teacher at the facility, according to the KSP.
Detectives now believe that the teacher who sent the material is Bardin, who at the time taught at the detention center.
The KSP alleges that in addition to soliciting the male juvenile to kill her husband, evidence “also revealed that Ms. Bardin had subjected the juvenile to illegal sexual contact and provided him with sexually explicit images of herself.”
Authorities arrested Bardin on Wednesday and she is now in custody at the Adair County Detention Center, according to the KSP.
She is facing charges of murder (solicitation), sexual abuse in the first degree and distribution of obscene material to a minor.
There is no public indication that anyone was killed as a result of the alleged solicitation.
The investigation by KSP is ongoing at this time and the juvenile male has not been charged with any crime at this time.
Bardin does not have a lawyer at this time and there is no date yet for her first court appearance.
