Woman Gets Prison for Sex with Boy, 12 - Updated

(Lancaster County, Pennsylvania) In August 2008, Ashley L. Banks pleaded guilty to statutory sexual assault and misdemeanor corruption of minors in accordance with an agreement with the prosecution.

Banks had sex with the boy on a "nightly basis" from August 2005 to December 2005, according to a police affidavit filed by Columbia Detective Daniel Bell. She paid the boy's mother in exchange for the sexual encounters, the affidavit says.

The mother was charged in July 2007 with pimping the boy. A Lancaster County jury found that woman guilty in September of three offenses, including criminal conspiracy to rape of a child.

In exchange for her plea, Banks was sentenced by Judge Jeffrey Wright to two to four years in prison plus four years of post-release probation. Additionally, as part of the plea deal, Banks had to provide testimony in the case against the 12-year-old boy's mother.

The boy's mother is scheduled to be sentenced on December 2.


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Woman Accused of Sex with Boy, 12
[Previous 6/1/07 post]
(York, Pennsylvania) A 24-year-old former York resident, Ashley L. Banks, has been accused of engaging in a four-month sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy in 2005.

Banks faces child rape and corruption of minor charges. Banks also faces theft and related charges in Springettsbury Township.

Regarding the child rape charge, it's also alleged that the boy's mother was paid by Banks to have sex with her son. The boy's mother has, so far, not been charged with any offense.

Banks is in custody in the York County Prison.


[Update 06/04/07]

An arrest warrant has been issued for boy's mother. She is being charged with rape, endangering the welfare of a child and corruption of a minor. Her last known address was in Lehighton, Carbon County.


[Update 07/18/07]

From YDR.com:

A mother accused of trading her 12-year-old son to another woman for sex in exchange for money and crack cocaine was arrested Monday in Carbon County, police said.

The 34-year-old woman, formerly of York and Lancaster counties, was picked up by members of the Pennsylvania State Police Fugitive Unit Monday in Jim Thorpe, a borough of about 5,000 residents in the northeastern part of the state.

Police have been searching for the woman for about two months, Columbia Police Detective Daniel Bell said Tuesday. Investigators received information that the woman had family in Carbon County and located her there, he said.

The mother is in Lancaster County Prison.