Gang Babe Guilty in Sex Case

(Caldwell, Idaho) A 32-year-old local mother-of-five, Simona Manzanares, has pleaded guilty to molesting a 14-year-old girl in 2006. Several other sex charges were dropped for her guilty plea.

Manzanares had been scheduled for parole on a felony gang-recruiting charge this past December, but when Canyon County prosecutors filed three charges of lewd conduct, sexual battery of a minor and sexual abuse of a minor the parole board postponed her release pending resolution of the new charges.

Sentencing on a felony injury to a child charge is scheduled for June 27.

Note that Manzanares was convicted in July 2008 on a charge of recruiting a criminal gang member. She was sentenced to a term of up to 10 years in prison.

At the time, Manzanares allegedly was the leader of the female branch of the Caldwell gang responsible for recruiting and obtaining weapons for the gang.