40-Year-Old Woman Welcomes Baby With 12-Year-Old Boy

An unidentified 40-year-old Melbourne mum has earned more than three years in jail for having sex with her daughter’s 12-year-old friend and subsequently welcoming his child.

According to DailyMail, she was sentenced at the Victorian County Court on Monday to at least three years and six months in prison.

The woman had pleaded guilty to the persistent sexual abuse of a child under the age of 16 over her relationship with the boy, who was her daughter’s friend.

In 2011, the then 36-year-old began driving her daughter and the boy to school.

The woman has admitted she started developing feelings for the boy and began a sexual relationship with him.

The pair had sex once a week over a five-month period and did not use condoms, the court was told.

‘You failed to recognise that your feelings for the boy were completely inappropriate. You commenced and continued an abusive sexual relationship,’ the judge said.

In May last year, the woman gave birth to a girl after telling the boy she thought the baby was his.

The boy’s mother visited the woman in hospital to support her friend but was unaware her son was the father and she was the grandmother.

Shortly afterwards, the boys’ parents found out about the relationship and confronted the woman and reported her to police.

A DNA test confirmed the boy is the baby’s father.

In a victim impact statement, the boy’s mother said the woman’s actions had affected her entire family.

The judge noted the woman was ashamed, remorseful and unlikely to reoffend and sentenced her to a maximum of six years in prison.