Married woman ‘lures teen boy away from Mormon seminary for hot tub sex romps ‘ will only spend 3 months in jail
A woman who admitted she had sex with underage teens at her home will avoid having to register as a sex offender following a plea deal.
According to East Idaho News, Amanda Katherine Steele, 35 and formerly of Arco, had already admitted to sex with underage teens before she was sentenced Tuesday.
District Judge Darren Simpson to spend 90-days in jail followed by seven years on felony probation.
In exchange, the judge suspended a three to 10-year prison sentence that could still be imposed if Steele is not successful on probation. Steele will also avoid having to register as a sex offender.
According to investigators, the married woman was engaged in an apparently consensual relationship with a 17-year-old teen she would have sex with at her home and at his home.
The teen was reportedly encouraged to skip school and Mormon seminary to have sex with Steele on multiple occasions, prosecutors said.
According to The U.S. Sun, Steele was arrested in 2019 after her husband caught her in a hot tub with an underage teen, and she admitted she was having sex with minor teens — even allegedly filming one of the romps.
“(The victim) told me he knew several of his friends had sex with her too but didn’t know anyone else besides (a second victim) had been under 18,” a deputy wrote in a police report.
One teenager said he didn’t want to press charges against Steele saying he “didn’t think it was a big deal.”
Despite the woman and teens’ sex allegedly being consensual, under Idaho law a minor who is 16 and 17 cannot consent to sex with adults five or more years older than them and are considered underage.
According to Crime-Online, Steele pleaded guilty this summer to two felony counts of injury to a child which are not sex crime charges.
Steele was originally charged with three felony counts of child sexual battery committed by lewd conduct after the Butte County Sheriff’s Office concluded a lengthy investigation that first began in late 2017.
According to Law and Crime, the judge attempted to reject the plea deal over the summer but later backed off after reviewing case law.
The investigation into the woman’s sex with underage teens seemed to go cold for well over a year until her husband contacted deputies after catching Steele in a hot tub with a teen.
In addition to serving the jail time and probation, Simpson has ordered Steele to complete 300 hours of community service
She is also ordered to pay $4,671 in fees and fines, according to court records.
She will remain jailed for the next three months.
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