Woman Goes on Trial for Sex with Boy

(McHenry County, Illinois) A 25-year-old Lake County, Illinois, woman, Tania A. Gerken, goes on trial next week in McHenry County Court to face charges related to engaging in sex with a 15-year-old boy. Gerken faces two counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. It's alleged that Gerken got the boy liquored up and smoked pot with him and then had sex.

If convicted, Gerken could be sentenced to seven years in prison.