Megan Skye Blancada, 39, has been jailed for more than five years for sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy in Australia as a court heard her sick encounters with the teenager
A “breathtakingly brazen” bikini model has been jailed for sexually abusing a 14-year-old boy – and came close to vomiting in the dock as her sentence was passed.
Megan Skye Blancada, 39, lured her victim to her car for sex. She admitted to sexually abusing the schoolboy on many occasions between 2021 and 2023, news.com.au reported. The victim, who cannot be named, told South Australian District Court: “She started texting me, trying to talk to me. I was confused … she would compliment me as if she liked me.
“It felt nice, and this is how she tricked me. She would say how horny I make her, how I look hot in my school clothes, that I should send her photos … she manipulated me, used me and raped me.”
The court heard how there were four instances of contact offending. In one, she had a sleepover at the victim’s family’s house where she followed him to the bathroom and abused him. Another time she was attending a meal with the family where she also abused him.
On another occasion she abused him at his home after dinner. Another instance happened in her car. Blancada, who says she is a fitness model and claimed to have had roles in films such as Hey Hey Its Esther and Wolf Creek, is said to have saved 15 images and videos shared over SnapChat between 2021, 2022 and 2023. The trial heard how the victim believes more than 1,000 were exchanged.
While in the dock Blancada retched several times and was visibly crying when the judge, Antony Allen, sentenced her for five years and one month in prison. He told proceedings: “Quite frankly, you did not need to be a high functioning individual to know what you were doing was illegal and morally repugnant.
“This aspect of the sexual abuse is extremely concerning. It was persistent, invasive and occurred over a relatively lengthy period of time. It serves as the disgraceful backdrop to the episodes of contact offending. It matters not that the victim reciprocated the communications. He was a child, you were an adult.
“I do not accept as a consequence of those factors (Blancada’s mental health problems) that moral culpability … are significantly diminished in the circumstances of this case. The gravity of your offending means a sentence of imprisonment is the only appropriate penalty.”
