NY Woman Gets Prison for Rape of Boy

(Buffalo, New York) In May, a 32-year-old single mother-of-five, Veronica Sanchez, pleaded guilty to second-degree rape and two counts of criminal sexual act stemming from a relationship with a 14-year-old boy which resulted in a child.

Despite pleading for mercy, Sanchez was sentenced yesterday to two years in prison by State Supreme Court Justice John L. Michalski.

Sanchez had pretended she was her daughter's teenage friend in order to entice the boy over the Internet for sex.

Sanchez was sexually intimate with the boy, whose identity has been withheld, in her house for months, according to prosecutor Marni Bogart, who said Sanchez initially pretended she was 17 and the friend of her teenage daughter in order to seduce the victim over the Internet.

The case developed upon a report to the Buffalo Police Department’s Sex Offense Squad, which included information that sexual relations transpired between a 30-year-old woman and the 14-year-old victim, according to John DeFranks, first deputy district attorney.

“[Sanchez] became pregnant, and there was a baby born in January,” DeFranks said.

The following month, a friend of the victim’s family told the boy’s mother that he might have fathered Sanchez’s fifth child. Bogart interviewed the boy in March at the Child Advocacy Center when he was brought there by a parent, according to prosecutors.

DNA testing confirmed the victim was the father of Sanchez’s baby boy, who was born Jan. 15.

In addition to prison, Sanchez has been barred from communicating with her victim in any way until Aug. 5, 2018, and she was fined $1,350. She will be included on the New York Sex Offender Registry.