A NSW corrections officer who fell pregnant to an inmate texted a good friend: “I’m an fool” earlier than she was busted trying to smuggle medication into jail for her secret lover, based on courtroom paperwork.
Amber Clavell, 25 appeared in Penrith’s District Courtroom on Wednesday as she prevented jail time after pleading responsible to a string of offenses regarding her affair with inmate Mark Kennedy at Geoffrey Pearce Correctional Centre in north western Sydney.
She was caught smuggling 33 grams of methamphetamine – which had been secreted in her bra – into the jail on the request of Kennedy, a convicted armed robber.
On the time she started an intimate relationship with Kennedy, Clavell was working within the jail’s Intensive Drug and Alcohol Therapy Program, based on a press release of agreed information tendered to the courtroom.
The Corrective Providers Investigation Unit started wanting into Clavell in early 2024 after it was found she had accessed the safe NSW Correctives Providers system out of hours, in addition to inmates’ telephone calls utilizing the Offender Phone System.
She was confronted by officers at work on April 23, initially telling them that typically she took work residence.
Whereas being interviewed, she admitted that she was carrying two balloons full of medicine in her bra, which weighed 33 grams.
Throughout questioning, she denied understanding Kennedy.
However detectives found a “love letter’ to Kennedy which she had penned on her telephone and referenced “while you get out”.
She then admitted to having shared intimate photos with him by way of Snapchat.
Kennedy was utilizing an unlawful telephone to contact her, based on courtroom paperwork.
In textual content conversations with a good friend and fellow corrective providers employee, Jessica Elguindy, she mentioned falling pregnant to Kennedy.
“I’m an fool,” she mentioned within the texts, contained in courtroom paperwork.
Clavell: “I do know however I’m f***ing dumb.”
Elguindy: “Don’t say that as a result of your not.”
Clavell: “I actually am.”
Elguindy: “No your (sic) not, you might be such a wise lady with such a vivid future forward, you’ve simply hit a wall & we’ll get by it.”
Clavell pleaded responsible to supplying a prohibited drug, misconduct in public workplace and accessing restricted information.
In handing down his sentence, Justice of the Peace Stephen Corry additionally took into consideration prices of partaking in a relationship with an inmate, bringing a prohibited drug/plant into a spot of detention and unlawfully delivering to an inmate.
And on Wednesday she was sentenced to a two-year, three-month intensive corrections order, to be served locally.
