Florida Woman Arrested for Child Sex & Drug Offenses

(Tampa, Florida) A 24-year-old local woman, Marbelis Margarita Dorado, was arrested last night by Hillsborough County Sheriff's Deputies for allegedly engaging in sex with a 15-year-old boy.

Dorado faces charges of felony child abuse, misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a minor and misdemeanor possession of marijuana.

An affidavit states that she encouraged four juveniles to smoke marijuana in her vehicle.

The sheriff's office said that a deputy had approached a 2004 Dodge Caravan at the park because the park closes at sundown. The deputy found Dorado and four youths -- a 14-year-old girl and three boys, two of them 15 and one 14 -- in the Dodge.

The deputy smelled marijuana and found a plastic baggie of it in the Dodge, the sheriff's office said. Dorado knows the youths from her neighborhood and told deputies she provided the marijuana and encouraged the youngsters to smoke it, the sheriff's office said.

The youths were released to their parents. Deputies took Dorado to a district office, where during an interview deputies learned that on Aug. 30 she had been accused by a mother of lewd and lascivious behavior with the woman's 15-year-old son.

The 15-year-old told investigators that he and Dorado had been having sex since July in Dorado's car, her apartment and friend's apartment.

Dorado was booked into custody at the Orient Road Jail with bail set at $48,000.

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