Medication Made Woman Have Sex with Boy - Updated

(Grove City, Pennsylvania) Thirty-three-year-old Tammy Lynn Woodley has been convicted and sentenced for statutory sexual assault and unlawful contact with a minor stemming from engaging in sex with a 14-year-old boy. In her defense, Woodley told Common Pleas Judge John C. Reed that prescription medication made her commit the offenses.

“So, essentially the main responsibility for this is the medication, not you?” asked a somewhat incredulous Miles K. Karson Jr., assistant district attorney.

“Essentially, yes,” Woodley replied. She said she does not think she ever would have slept with the boy or been involved in other petty criminal cases if not for the meds. “My mind was not clear,” she said.

As a result of Woodley's medication-caused child sex crime, Judge Reed sentenced her to 6 to 12 months in the Mercer County Jail and 16 years of probation. Woodley was also ordered to register as a sex offender in accordance with Megan's Law.

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Pennsylvania Woman Accused of Sex with Boy, 14
[Previous 12/19/08 post]
(Grove City, Pennsylvania) A married, 32-year-old Pine Township woman, Tammy Lynn Woodley, was arrested for allegedly engaging in sex with a 14-year-old boy after she picked him up from school.

Woodley has been charged with statutory sexual assault, aggravated indecent assault and corruption of a minor.

The boy's father reportedly alerted authorities.

Mrs. Woodley and the boy were acquainted through one of her relatives and their relationship developed to the point that Mrs. Woodley’s husband once commented the two of them acted like “two teenagers in love.”

Mrs. Woodley started picking the boy up at school in September. “We would usually go for a ride. ... go to the park, or go for a walk,” she said. The boy said they shared a few kisses and they talked about getting serious, but both recognized the age difference.

On Oct. 27, Mrs. Woodley said “things got a little out of hand and against my better judgment, one thing led to another and we had sex.”

“After it was all done, remorse set in and I realized what had just happened. After that I took him home,” she said.

Woodley was booked into custody and later released on bond.

In another report about Woodley, she was arrested in July 2008 on theft and drug possession charges. She allegedly stole 70 pain pills.


[Update 2/20/09]

Tammy Lynn Woodley was rearrested for violating the terms of her release by contacting her victim.

As part of the case, she was not to contact the boy, police said.

On Feb. 10, the boy and his father told police that the boy had received a letter from Woodley. It was given to him by Woodley’s 8-year-old son on a school bus.

Police said Woodley had used her son to deliver other letters to the victim.

Woodley faces a new charge of intimidation of a witness or victim. She was released from custody under a new bond amount of $10,000.