The case shocks America. A 37-year-old mother from Virginia was charged with indecency and rape last week after local police caught her naked with a missing 15-year-old boy. The 30-year-old is also accused of having abused her twin brother.
Ashleigh Watts was arrested during a visit by police to her Chesapeake, Va. home in July as they searched for the missing teenager. The young woman, visibly disturbed by the police presence, asked them to wait outside while she put on a bra.
‘Officers indicated that Watts took several minutes before allowing them entry,’ according to court documents obtained. by the Law & Crime website. Once this incident passed, the investigators were able to begin their research. As officers removed the mattress from an upstairs bedroom, they discovered a young white man hiding in a small, secret space in the bedroom, wearing only boxer shorts.
“When the officers asked him if he was the wanted teenager, he replied in the affirmative and presented his driver’s license. This police intervention was only the submerged part of a story worthy of “Desperate Housewives”, in trash version.
Denounced by the neighbor
According to a report by the local channel NBC WAVY-TVthe investigation into Ashleigh Watts began with an anonymous tip provided to the Chesapeake Police Department on Feb. 22 regarding the 37-year-old woman’s alleged sexual relationship with two underage teenagers.
Authorities first learned that Ashleigh Watts’ husband came home one evening in February to find his wife topless on the sofa. Next to her was one of the 15-year-old boys, who the husband said was “pretending to sleep”. When questioned by his parents, the boy reportedly said he went to Watts’ house to smoke marijuana and fell asleep on the sofa. But the matter did not end there.
A few weeks later, “the Watts’ neighbor said the teen had confided in her that he had been having sex with Ms. Watts since June 2022,” police said in an affidavit. “The 15-year-old also assured that he and Mrs. Watts were in love and that when he was 17, she would divorce her husband and they would marry”, according to the same source.
Authorities also said that after the alleged 13-month relationship came to light, the teenager then ran away from home and was not found hiding in his lover’s bedroom until nearly three weeks later. July 26 last. Her twin later confessed to investigators that Ashleigh Watts also invited him to smoke weed and offered him underwear. He also claimed that she was touching him inappropriately, although he begged her to stop.
She faces up to 30 years in prison.
During the investigation, Ashleigh Watts’ husband and one of the twins’ parents told authorities that their families were at one time “very good friends”, to the point that “every house had an open door rule where members of the two families came and went to each other’s residences”.
One of the twins’ parents also told police it was common for his children to be at Ashleigh Watts’ home on a regular basis because she and her husband have a son close in age to the twins. . The police when they arrested the 30-year-old, who said in her defense that she had been abandoned by her husband, discovered large quantities of cash, marijuana and a prepaid mobile phone, which would have been used to maintain these illegal and adulterous relationships.
The parents of the teenagers and the husband of the alleged rapist filed a complaint and requested removal measures against the 30-year-old. Ashleigh Watts now faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.
2023-08-31 10:01:00
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