Woman caught having sex with boyfriend's teenage son on 'ghost camera' jailed for six months
The father was hoping to capture paranormal activity but was horrified to see footage of his 28-year-old lover kissing and cuddling his 16-year-old son
A woman who was accidentally caught on camera having sex with the teenage son of her boyfriend after he set up a video camera to film ghosts has been jailed for six months.
The 28-year-old woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to five counts of sex with a minor at the Supreme Court.
Justice David Porter sentenced the woman to 12 months' jail, six of them suspended on condition of good behaviour.
He told her: "You must bear full responsibility for what happened.
"The relationship that commenced was more opportunistic than predatory ... but that cannot truly be said of your later conduct."
The Australian man was hoping to film paranormal activity in his kitchen but instead was horrified to find footage of his lover and 16-year-old son kissing and cuddling.
She said she was “ashamed and embarrassed” by her actions and claimed she thought the age of consent was 16, when it is in fact 17.
The court heard that, when the man confronted his partner of 11 years over the video recording, she tried to downplay the incident as an innocent cuddle.
But his son confessed to having sex with her three times in the preceding days.
It later emerged that the affair began when the woman, mother of the man’s young child, went into her stepson’s bedroom to discuss his driving lessons.
Conversation turned to tickling which then became kissing and sex, Crown Prosecutor Jackie Hartnett told the court.
She also told the court how the woman had taken the boy upstate where they had sex several times in a hotel room.
After discovering the footage on his video camera, the man called police and his girlfriend was arrested.
She later confessed in a taped police interview to having sex with the boy and admitted knowing he was 16.
