Virginia Woman Jailed for Sex with Boys - Updated

(Waynesboro, Virginia) Twenty-eight-year-old Cassandra Mays Mawyer pleaded guilty today in Waynesboro Circuit Court to two counts of carnal knowledge of boys and one count of credit card fraud in accordance with a plea deal.

Judge Humes J. Franklin followed a plea deal Wednesday, sentencing Mawyer to one year in prison for credit card fraud and 12 months in jail on each misdemeanor child sex charge.

Run concurrently, Mawyer’s sentence is one year. She was placed on four years probation and ordered to pay restitution.

No mention has been made of registration as a sex offender even though Mawyer mixed it up with two boys, 13 and 14. The sentence is arguably lenient. Maybe it's because child sex offenses are misdemeanors, eh? What's with that?


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Virginia Woman Accused of Sex with Boys
[Previous 1/22/09 post]
(Waynesboro, Virginia) A 28-year-old woman, Cassandra Mays Mawyer, was arrested Monday for allegedly having carnal knowledge of a boy between 13 and 15 years old and for alleged credit card fraud.

Waynesboro police arrested her Monday, nearly one month after searching her former Woodrow Avenue home, seizing undergarments and looking for letters between her and two boys, ages 13 and 14.

Detectives were investigating Mawyer for credit card fraud when the sex acts came to their attention, said Waynesboro police Sgt. Kelly Walker.

Maywer allegedly bought $292 in clothing items with a credit card owned by a man with whom she lived for about six months. The man reported suspicious purchases Dec. 16. According to a search warrant, police then learned of alleged consensual sex acts with the teens, who are friends. [...]

Walker said Mawyer’s contact began with the 14-year-old in October. The 13-year-old admitted to police that he had sex with Mawyer one time, authorities said.

Each Class 4 felony carnal knowledge charge carries a possible 10-year prison sentence.

Police continue to investigate.