Ohio Woman Accused of Giving STD to Boy, 13

(Middletown, Ohio) A 20-year-old local woman, Tabitha Hollandsworth, has been accused of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old boy and infecting him with chlamydia.

Hollandsworth faces a charge of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor along with unrelated drug offenses.

The boy's grandparents alerted police last September after learning of the infection.

The boy told police he and a 15-year-old boy had sex Sept. 20 with a woman he thought was named Tabitha Willingsworth while at a party at an apartment, according to reports. The 15-year-old boy used a condom, the 13-year-old told police.

Middletown police Detective Fred Shuemake said an investigation led to a Sept. 26 police report listing Hollandsworth's name. He showed the boy pictures of Hollandsworth and five similar looking women.

"He identified her as the one immediately," Shuemake said. "There was no hesitation at all. He picked her."

But before Shuemake could sign an arrest warrant, Hollandsworth was picked up Nov. 21 for allegedly abusing crack cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Hollandsworth was released with a court appearance scheduled for November 30. She failed to appear. This week, however, she was picked up in Cincinnati on drug charges. Hollandsworth was booked into the Middletown City Jail on $15,000 bond.

Interestingly, Detective Shuemake's familiarity with Hollandsworth goes back to a January 2004 case involving a serious fireworks mishap.

Municipal Judge Mark W. Wall found sufficient evidence to advance the case against Nathanal Harden, 18, who has been in the city jail since Dec. 27 on charges of aggravated arson and felonious assault.

Middletown police Juvenile Detective Fred Shuemake testified that Harden willingly came to the police station to talk with him a few hours after the Dec. 27 incident. Harden said he was in the back seat of a car with Tabitha Hollandsworth, 16, who was holding her son, 21-month-old Shawn Hollandsworth, when Harden lit a firework he intended to throw from the car window, Shuemake said.

The firework came back into the car, and Harden held it as it shot flames that left the toddler with second-degree burns and facial scarring, blistering and scabbing, Shuemake said.

All in all, trouble is no stranger to Tabitha Hollandsworth.