Pa. woman gets five-year probation on corruption charge

August 19, 2004|by DON AINES

CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. - A Chambersburg woman who had a sexual relationship with her daughter's boyfriend over a two-year period was sentenced to five years on probation Wednesday in Franklin County Court.

The 47-year-old woman pleaded no contest on June 23 to corruption of a minor in exchange for dismissal of charges of statutory sexual assault and involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, according to court records. Judge Douglas W. Herman fined her $750, ordered her to perform 50 hours of community service and to pay $3,023 in restitution, about half of it for tuition for the boy, who transferred to a school outside the district when the charges were filed.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by Chambersburg police, the boy told police of the affair in December 2002. He said he began dating the woman's daughter in August or September 2000 and he became intimate with the mother within a couple of months, police records say.

The boy, who was 15 at the time, told police the woman began flirting with him when she drove him to her daughter's sporting events, the affidavit stated. The relationship ended in October 2002, when the boy broke up with the daughter, police said.

The affidavit stated there was a witness to the sexual relationship, a friend of the boy who did not believe he was having a relationship with the woman. To prove it, the boy told his friend to hide in a house and watch them, the affidavit stated.

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