Florida Mom Gets Prison for Sex with Minor - Updated

(Pensacola, Florida) A tearful Angela Leavitt dabbed her cheeks as Circuit Judge Ron Swanson imposed her sentence yesterday.

Swanson gave Leavitt a 3½-year suspended sentence, which requires her to spend at least one year in state prison. Should she violate the terms of her 96-month probation, she'll return to prison to finish the rest of the sentence.

Leavitt also is required to register as a sex offender and attend counseling.

Meanwhile, it's reported that Leavitt and her husband are divorcing.

In Leavitt's defense, her lawyer Kenneth Ridlehoover indicated that Leavitt was actually the victim in the case because she is emotionally stunted from childhood abuse and a bad marriage. Not only that but the boy approached her. Despite Ridlehoover's assertions, Leavitt is going to the slammer.


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Florida Mom Guilty of Sex with Minor
[Previous 11/10/08 post bumped]
(Pensacola, Florida) In June 2008, 28-year-old Angela Leavitt learned that a warrant was issued for her arrest for allegedly engaging in unlawful sex with a 16-year-old boy. As a consequence, she and the boy fled.

Investigators contend that Leavitt, a married mother of two, had an extended-term sexual relationship with the boy, her coworker at a fast food burger business.

Leavitt left home with the boy June 3 - taking her own 8- and 9-year-old children with her - because she knew she was about to be arrested, lawmen say. The boy's parents had filed a restraining order against her after the pair were found together in Leavitt's Dodge Durango more than once.

Lawmen began searching for her as her husband went public, asking for the safe return of his children.

The manhunt ended a week later, when Leavitt was arrested at Pensacola Regional Airport - where she said she was planning to turn herself in, anyway. The boy had come home a day earlier via Greyhound bus.

On June 17, Leavitt was released from custody on bond and ordered to have no contact with minors, to wear a GPS monitor and to stay in the local area.

Last Friday, Angela Leavitt pleaded guilty to unlawful sexual activity with a minor. She is scheduled to be sentenced on January 8th.