Pennsylvania Woman Gets Probation for Sex with Boy

(Adams County, Pennsylvania) In April 2008, a 26-year-old local New Oxford woman, Brenda Lua Manzo, was charged with engaging in sex with a 15-year-old boy. Sexual episodes allegedly occurred on several occasions in the summer of 2007.

Last month, Brenda L. Manzo pleaded guilty to statutory sexual assault of a 15-year-old boy in accordance with a plea agreement.

Manzo was charged in April after the parents of a 15-year-old boy contacted Pennsylvania State Police at Gettysburg because they were concerned about their son's relationship with Manzo, police said.

Police said the boy's parents told them their son stayed out late in the evenings, and they suspected he and Manzo had a sexual relationship after he returned with hickeys on his neck.

The boy told police he met with Manzo in summer 2007 at South Mountain Fairgrounds and had sex with her at his house, in an orchard and at an Aspers home, according to court documents. Police said the boy told them he knew Manzo was 25 at the time and that she knew he was 15.

Last week, Brenda Manzo was sentenced by Senior Judge Oscar F. Spicer to four years of probation encompassing six months of house arrest. Manzo was also ordered to pay $300 in fines.