Kelsey Meta Boren, who mentored drag queen, 11, sentenced to lower than a 12 months for little one intercourse crimes
A former Oregon elementary college instructor and mentor of an 11-year-old drag queen was sentenced to 11 months in jail after being convicted of practically a dozen felony little one abuse crimes.
Kelsey Meta Boren, 31, pleaded responsible to 11 counts of encouraging child sexual abuse within the first diploma final month after she was busted for importing little one porn on-line, the Lane County Sheriff’s Workplace mentioned.
Boren, who labored for the Fern Ridge Faculty District earlier than the allegations surfaced final 12 months, was additionally pictured in an Instagram publish previous to her arrest with an 11-year-old drag queen, who she claims to have mentored as a “drag mother.”
The time period refers to when an older drag queen mentors a younger performer, however the little one’s household denies Boren performed such a job.
Boren and the younger drag queen, who goes by the stage identify Vanellope MacPherson DuPont, had been set to perform final October on the Previous Nick’s Pub, in Eugene, a Victorian-themed gothic bar named after Devil.
A Fb publish from the bar to advertise the October occasion mentioned: “Vanellope is right here to point out you what an 11-year-old drag queen can do.”
Boren, nonetheless, was arrested in August, and a search of her house turned up proof that she had been importing and exchanging little one porn on the web, in keeping with court docket paperwork.
The arrest, together with information of a kid drag queen performing on the bar, spurred protests exterior Previous Nick’s, which in the end led to the child not performing.
Previous Nick’s condemned the protests as “bigotry,” noting that protesters exterior the bar had been additionally armed with weapons.
In a press release, Vanellope’s household mentioned the kid solely met Boren “possibly 4 or 5 instances,” and that the 2 had been by no means shut.
“Meta-Boren was not a household pal, nor was she ever a mentor for V within the drag world,” the household mentioned. “They, additionally, haven’t had any contact since earlier than Covid, and all ties have been severed as of the time of Meta-Boren’s arrest in August.”
Following her arrest, Boren was suspended from the college district, barred from college grounds and from having contact with college students.
No college students from the district had been recognized as victims, police mentioned.
After serving 11 months in jail for her crimes, Boren will serve 5 years probation and be prohibited from having contact with folks beneath 18, in keeping with court docket paperwork.
She will even must register as a intercourse offender.
A consultant for Boren couldn’t instantly be reached.