CA Woman Gets Prison Sex With Boy - Updated

(Bel Air, Maryland) In June, 37-year-old Rachel Ann Hicks pleaded guilty to second-degree rape of a 13-year-old boy. Consequently, she was sentenced Wednesday to 20 years in prison with eight years suspended.

Hicks was arrested at her home Jan. 7 by Orange County, CA, police after admitting to having sex with a 13-year-old Bel Air boy, whom she met playing Xbox Live.

Police said Hicks drove to Florida from California on Thanksgiving weekend to visit family and stopped in Maryland on the way home. During her visit to Bel Air she had sex with the boy at his home while his parents were sleeping in the house.

“We have an obligation to protect our boys from on-line solicitation and on-line predators in the same way we protect our girls,” Diane Adkins Tobin, the prosecuting attorney for the case, said in a statement.

Hicks was also ordered to undergo sex offender treatment and register as a sex offender for life. She will additionally be placed on probation for five years after release from prison.

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CA Woman Accused of Sex With Boy
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(Baltimore, Maryland) A 36-year-old Lake Forest, California woman, Rachel Ann Hicks, was arrested yesterday for alleged sexual solicitation of a 13-year-old Maryland boy.

Hicks allegedly befriended the boy over the Internet then traveled to Maryland to meet him.

Hicks and the teen initially met in September on an X-box Live chat room, police said. The online relationship progressed to phone calls, texting, e-mails and sexually explicit images and movies between one another, according to a police news release.

Hicks allegedly told the boy she was 23 years old. Police said she flew to Maryland and met him at his home, where they engaged in sexual intercourse on Thanksgiving.

Investigators said the boy disclosed the relationship after his family discovered "romantic" text messages on his cell phone.

Hicks faces multiple charges including rape and sexual solicitation of a minor.