(Lakewood, Colorado) After three years of sexually assaulting a boy and having a child by him, 31-year-old Tani Leigh Firkins pleaded guilty to sexual exploitation of a child before Jefferson County Court Judge Peter A. Weir. She was sentenced today to nine years in prison.
Tani Leigh Firkins
Apparently, Firkins was homeless and lived in a shelter operated by the boy's parents when she began molesting him at age 14. The sex continued until the boy was 17 and charges were filed when a videotape surfaced of their sexual relationship. The boy's parents are justifiably outraged about Firkins. They took Firkins and her two other children in and gave them comfort and shelter and, all along, Firkins was having sex with the boy and provided him, and some of his friends, with marijuana and alcohol.
Just prior to being arrested and shortly after Firkins gave birth to the boy's child, social services took custody of the infant along with the other Firkins children.
The parents of the boy are also pursuing the possibility of additional charges being filed in Denver where they contend that, conservatively, 50 to 100 sexual assaults occurred. They have scheduled a meeting with Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey.
[Update 03/23/07]
Firkins sentenced in Denver District Court to six more years in prison.
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