Texas Wife Accused of Sex with Boy

(Galveston, Texas) A 29-year-old Galveston City Hall worker and officer of the parent-teacher organization, Sabrina Marie Simpson (aka Sabrina Marie Murphy), has been accused of sexual assault of 13-year-old boy.

Simpson has been charged with sexual assault of a child and may face an additional charge of online solicitation of a child.

The boy was in class last week at Central Middle School, 3014 Sealy Ave., when a teacher caught him sending text messages on his cell phone, police said.

School officials noticed a sexually explicit message on the phone's display screen and contacted police after finding a series of such messages from an outside number, police said. The boy's messages in response reportedly were brief and were not explicit, police said.

The court ordered a call for her cell phone records.

The boy later told investigators about four sexual encounters he had with a woman with whom he had been staying, police said. Police said the text messages on the boy's phone had traced back to a phone listed as belonging to the same woman.

The boy had what police described as "some juvenile issues" and was released from of a boot-camp program late last year. Upon his release, the woman and her husband had taken in the child, a longtime friend of her stepson, police said.

Simpson (aka Murphy) was booked into custody at the Galveston County Jail and released on $40,000 bond. The boy has been removed from the Simpson home and placed with a relative.


[Update 04/13/08]

Sabrina Marie Simpson has been arrested again for allegedly sexually assaulting a different boy, 14, while she was released on bail from the charges filed in February.

The new charge stems from claims by an island boy, 14, that Murphy drove him to East Beach and performed at least two sex acts with him, according to the affidavit used to obtain an arrest warrant.

The boy’s cell phone contained sexually explicit images of a woman police said was Simpson. They came from an e-mail address investigators said belonged to Simpson.

The boy said the encounter occurred “at the beginning of spring break 2008.” At the time, Simpson was out on $40,000 bond after having been jailed on the original charge in the case involving the 13-year-old boy.

That case started when a teacher caught the boy, a Central Middle School student, sending text messages on his cell phone during class, police said.

School officials noticed a sexually explicit message on the phone’s display screen and contacted police after finding a series of messages from an outside number, police said. The boy’s messages in response reportedly were brief and were not explicit, police said.

The boy later told investigators about four sexual encounters he had with a woman with whom he had been staying, police said.

Simpson, an PTA office holder, was fired from her city job on Friday. She is currently in jail with bond set at $500,000.