Woman Gets 9 Years for Sex with Boy, 12 - Updated

(Teeside, England) Arrested in October 2009 and convicted last month, 36-year-old single mother Angela Sullivan has been sentenced by Judge John Walford to nine years in jail for engaging in a long-term sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy. Sullivan will also be placed on the Sex Offender's Register for life.

Prosecutor Richard Bennett summarized the case in Teeside Crown Court, describing first how Sullivan allowed the boy to get drunk at a New Year's party and then having sex with him.

The next day the boy - described in court as a ''young-looking 12-year-old'' - had a heavy hangover and Sullivan told him: ''I had sex with you and if anyone finds out it's classed as rape and everything''.

Mr Bennett added: ''The defendant groomed him by buying him gifts to keep him happy.''

She would send her own son, also aged 12, to stay with his grandparents so she and the victim had the house to themselves. ''The defendant's 12-year-old son had seen the defendant having sex with the boy,'' the prosecutor said.

''He had seen this in the house when the defendant wasn't aware he was there. He had also seen this on video footage recorded by the defendant on her mobile phone.''

Rumours began to circulate around the boy's school that he was in a relationship with Sullivan and that she was pregnant. ''He was given the nickname 'manballs' by his 12-year-old peers at school because of his apparent virility,'' Mr Bennett said.

Sullivan was ''quite indiscreet about the relationship'', sending friends texts or MSN computer messages about what she was doing.

Indiscreet, eh? That's an understatement. She virtually advertised. (h/t JRay)

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(Teeside, England) A 36-year-old single mom, Angela Sullivan, has admitted in Teeside Crown Court to a ten-month-long intimate relationship with a 12-year-old boy during which she and the boy had 200 sexual episodes.

She first seduced the boy by plying him with alcohol and performing a sex act on him, the court was told.

The pair went on to have a ten-month affair, which was only uncovered after rumours circulated at the boy's school about Sullivan being pregnant.

Investigators also discovered the schoolboy had been boasting to friends in internet chatrooms about his relationship.

The mother would often have sex with the youngster in her Middlesbrough home after sending her own son to stay with his grandparents.

When police arrested Sullivan in October, they found a diary filled with childish entries and 191 stars to mark each encounter.

She initially denied having sex with the boy and tried to explain away some of her diary entries - such as 'Angela loves (the boy's name)' - as innocent scribblings.

But when she appeared in court yesterday, Sullivan admitted ten specimen charges of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity - one for each month of the affair.

Sullivan was jailed without bail and psychiatric reports were ordered. Sentencing is scheduled for next month.

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