Woman Caught with Boy Again

(Leeds, England) On January 22, a 27-year-old mother of four, Sarah Webster, was convicted in Leeds Crown Court of sexual activity with a 13-year-old boy. Webster has children aged two, three, four and six.

Webster was released on bail to live in her mother's one-bedroom apartment until sentencing on February 14. Judge Peter Collier ordered Webster to register as a sex offender and to not have any contact with the boy.

In the meantime, however, Webster violated her bail conditions when police burst into her house and found that she was in bed with the boy one night in the first week of February. Webster was arrested.

Patrick Gallagher, for Webster, said the youngster had turned up at the house earlier in the evening and the pair had not met since she was arrested for the original offence.

He added: "She foolishly allowed him to come into her home.

"Her ex-boyfriend then turned up and she was frightened to let him out."

The barrister said the pair went upstairs and fell asleep in the bedroom and were awoken by police who had been called to the premises.

On February 5th, Webster's attorney asked the court to once again release her on bail. Judge Peter Hunt denied the request.

As yet, the details of Webster's sentencing, scheduled for yesterday, have not been reported. It's expected that she will get jail time.

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[Update 04/29/08]

Webster sentenced.

She was given a 12-month prison sentence suspended for two years. She was given a two-year supervision order with a condition that she lived at a probation-approved address for 12 months.

Webster was also made the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention Order which bans her from contacting the victim or from inviting male children under the age of 16 to her house.

She was also made to sign the Sex Offenders' Register for 10 years.

The court was told Webster, a mother-of-four, suffered at the hands of a violent partner who on one occasion had used a sledgehammer to smash his way through a wall.

The court was probably sympathetic because of the sledgehammer incident.