LONDON: A judge allowed a mother who had sex with a 14-year-old boy to walk free, saying that the boy seduced her. Sharon Edwards, 40, walked away from Teeside Crown Court after the judge ruled that she had been flattered by the boy’s attention as a result of feeling trapped in an unhappy marriage and had let herself be seduced by him.
The court heard that Edwards had sex with the boy a total of four times between September 2007 and January 2008. Edwards’ husband Mark first became suspicious because she was exchanging 50 text messages a day with the boy, prosecutor Tina Dempster told the court.
He began checking his wife’s computer for MSN messages and, through these, discovered that her lover was a youngster who went to the same school as their two sons. Edwards then contacted the boy’s mother who called the police.
Judge Peter Fox QC told her, “Mrs Edwards did have a responsibility as an adult to reject the boy’s advances but said that he regarded the case as an ‘exceptional one.’
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