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Married woman, 39, who had sex with 14-year-old walks free from court after judge says the boy seduced her.
A mother who had sex with a 14-year-old walked free from court today after the judge said the boy seduced her.
Sharon Edwards' husband, who suspected that she was having an affair, discovered that his love rival was a youngster from their two sons' school.
The couple's marriage was on the rocks when he began checking the 39-year-old's computer for MSN messages and found his identity.
He told the boy's mother who called in the police, said prosecutor Tina Dempster.
Blonde Edwards said that they had sex for the fourth and final time that night, and on another occasion it happened at her sister's home when the sister was away.
Miss Dempster told Teesside Crown Court that Edwards' husband Mark first became suspicious because she was exchanging 50 text messages a day with the boy.
The Edwards's marriage was rocky by the end of 2007 and they decided to try to make a go of it.
But it became apparent to him by the end of October last year that his wife was having an affair. When he confronted her she denied it.
He spoke to her about the number of text messages she was sending to the boy but she said they were just having a laugh.
Miss Dempster added: 'Although he suspected she was having an affair it never occurred to him that it was the boy.
'He changed the setting on the computer so that all messages sent on the MSN programme would be saved on January 18.
'The next morning he checked the messages and he realised that the person with whom she was having a sexual relationship was the boy.'
He confronted her but she left their home and he rang the boy's mother. She confronted the boy who immediately became distressed.
Miss Dempster said: 'He was crying and he told her he was sorry but he did not know how to stop it.
'His mother called the police and he was extremely distressed saying that his life was over and he might as well die now.
'The next day he was interviewed by the police and he confirmed that he had had a crush on her and that they had had sexual intercourse the previous night.'
In one of the MSN chats the boy asked her to buy some cocaine, and she said that she would not want any money for it.
Deborah Sherwin, defending, said that a woman received a two year jail sentence for sex with a minor in a recent Court of Appeal case.
She added: 'The charges cover four occasions of sexual intercourse and related activity between September 2007 and January 2008.
'It has always been her wish that he was not put into a position of having to give evidence at court.
'Although he is only 14 it is clear from the video interview that the police carried out that he is a tall lad of six foot one and mature for his age in a number of ways.'
Miss Sherwin said: 'She was a sad and lonely housewife, she was not working, her parents had moved abroad, she was stuck at home, her marriage was failing and this boy paid her attention and she was flattered by it.'
The Recorder of Middlesbrough Judge Peter Fox QC told her: 'You have been a very unhappy lady for a very considerable period of time when this 14-year-old boy seduced you and not you him both so far as sexual matters and as far as drugs are concerned.
'Of course you have responsibility as an adult to reject his advances in both regards.
'I do regard this case as an exceptional one because of the details and what I have read in the psychiatric report.'
Edwards now 40, of Stockton, Teesside, was given a 12-month jail sentence suspended for two years with supervision and ordered to register as a sex offender for five years after she pleaded guilty to four charges of sexual activity with a child and offering to supply a Class A drug.