By Amber Crawford
A former elementary school teacher in Oregon and self-proclaimed mentor to a child drag queen has been sentenced to 11 months in jail after being found guilty of 11 felony child sexual abuse crimes.
Last month, Kelsey Meta Boren, 31, pled guilty to 11 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse in the first degree after law enforcement found out she had been uploading child porn to the internet.
She has been sentenced to 11 months in jail, followed by five years probation, and will be legally barred from having contact with people under 18. Boren must also register as a sex offender.
Boren had previously worked as an elementary school teacher at the Fern Ridge School District but, after the child abuse allegations surfaced, she was terminated from her position and barred from stepping on school grounds and from having contact with the students.
Prior to her arrest, Boren had posted pictures on Instagram with an 11-year-old drag queen who she claimed to have mentored as a “drag mom.” The child’s family, however, denies this relationship and insists that the two were not very close, and had only met each other “maybe four or five times.”