Michigan Woman Gets Prison for Sex with Boy

(Grand Haven, Michigan) In July 2013, 27-year-old Jessica Marie Newland was arrested for criminal sexual conduct with a 15-year-old boy.

In accordance with a plea deal, Newland pleaded guilty to two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct.

In exchange for the plea, a charge of first-degree criminal sexual conduct was dismissed. That charge carries a possible sentence of life in prison.

“I’m really sorry,” Newland told the court when asked if she had anything to say. “If I could go and take it back, I would.”

The charges stem from 2009 to 2010, when Newland was living with her boyfriend in Grand Haven, according to Ottawa County Prosecuting Attorney Gregg Babbitt. The boyfriend was a truck driver and was often gone overnight, Babbitt said, and Newland and the boy — then age 15 — were having “normal sexual intercourse.”

Newland was sentenced to at least four years and up to 15 years in prison.