Teacher begged her prison student lover to 'kill my husband' in 'juicy' letter

A teacher who begged her student to kill her husband as they indulged in a steamy affair has been put behind bars. It comes after her inappropriate relationship was outed as officers searched the teenager's property. Elena Bardin, 28, had worked as a teacher at a juvenile detention centre in Adair County in Kentucky when she began the inappropriate relationship with a 17-year-old inmate. Sickening letters sent to the teen by Elena outlined how she had wanted her husband dead. Now, following a trial, Bardin was sentenced to a total of 14 years in prison after her illicit plans were exposed. Her husband filed for divorce a month after she was arrested. The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that Bardin had been working as an English teacher at the facility when she first met the unnamed inmate, who was in jail for murder. Over time, the pair had formed a close bond and eventually made moves on each other, initiating the forbidden relationship. As time went on, Bardin would send the 17-year-old boy letters that were highly sexually explicit and included racy photos of herself. But as the couple fell madly in love with each other, Bardin called for the inmate to do something even more sinister. One letter read out to the court during Bardin's trial found that the woman had allegedly begged the minor to hide her saucy photos and letters, as she wrote she "can't be classified as an effing paedophile". Prosecutors alleged that Bardin would tell the teenager about her desire to kill her husband, wishing she was out of her marriage but was not willing to give up the 5-year-old they shared. Testimonies revealed she was hoping that he would be murdered by the teen or one of his friends in nearby Louisville. Another letter read out to the court heard Bardin ask the boy: "I know you say you’ll take care of him, but shouldn’t someone else do it to take the suspicion away from you?" Defence lawyers claimed these conversations were nothing more than jokes and Bardin had insisted on that. The relationship was rumbled in March, after prison officers found a total of 193 letters in the boy's cell. Elena was later arrested by police the following month. Elena was officially sentenced on Thursday (November 13) to 14 years in prison after being found guilty of first-degree sexual abuse, unlawful transaction with a minor, and distribution of obscene material to a minor. She was, however, found not guilty of soliciting the boy to kill her husband. Her husband would eventually file for divorce one month after she was arrested. She is now facing a legal battle to ensure she has visitation rights to see her 5-year-old daughter. Speaking at the sentencing, presiding judge Samuel Spalding said to Bardin: "The letters you sent, which they were juicy, they were things you'd see in a triple-x movie, and completely inappropriate, obviously, and I think you know that for a young man that age. And for an educator, it was incumbent upon you to set a better example." For the latest breaking news and stories from across the globe from the Daily Star, sign up for our newsletters .