Woman on Trial for Molesting Boy

(Dade City, Florida) On trial this week is 35-year-old Jennifer Bloye Rutherford for molesting a 14-year-old boy.

From St. Petersburg Times:

The easygoing teenager took the stand Wednesday and described a sickening scene: two adults, two teens, in bed together naked playing a game of sexual truth or dare.

The incident, involving a man and a 13-year-old girl, and his wife and a 14-year-old boy, occurred in the summer of 2003 at a home in Zephyrhills, authorities say.

The man, 37-year-old Timothy Gerald Bloye, pleaded guilty earlier this year to lewd and lascivious molestation against the girl. He is serving a prison sentence just shy of seven years.

Jennifer Bloye Rutherford, who has since divorced Bloye and remarried, is standing trial this week. If convicted, the 35-year-old will face up to 15 years in prison.

Rutherford's defense is to contend that she was not the instigator of the sexual episode and, therefore, is not as culpable as her ex-husband. Uh . . . good luck with that, Jennifer.

Unfortunately, what isn't known is how the whole scenario developed and how the adults knew the teens. Were the kids neighbors? Babysitters? Did the adults know them from church? School? Maybe they were distant relatives? The aberration of having two teens jump into bed with two mid-thirties adults is not clearly explained.