A female primary school teacher who propositioned a 10-year-old boy for sex and had his name tattooed on her chest has avoided jail.

Mother of eight Diane Brimble from Hamilton in Victoria’s west, pleaded guilty to one charge of engaging in an indecent act with a child.

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The court heard the 47-year-old propositioned the boy for sex when he was at her home to play with her children, but he rejected her advances.

She had his name with an infinity symbol tattooed on her chest, and wrote letters to him declaring her undying love.

The boy’s mother told had previously told the court Brimble turned her son into a “sexual commodity”.

She said they had to move from their community and the boy was placed on antipsychotic medication.

She said it also impacted on his siblings.

“They drew pictures of rainbows and unicorns. He drew black pictures of knives and death,” she said, reading her victim impact statement to the court.

In sentencing Judge Mark Taft told Brimble he was at a “complete loss” to understand her “utterly inappropriate conduct the must dismay every parent”.

He sentenced Brimble to a two-year community corrections order.

She will be a registered sex offender for eight years.