A married mother has been jailed for having sex with two young teenage boys after luring them with naked pictures on Snapchat.
Brooke Lajiness, 38, was sentenced up to 15 years in prison, with a minimum of four years and nine months after pleading guilty to several counts of criminal sexual conduct, according to MLive.
Prior to sentencing, the Michigan woman read a written statement to Judge David Swartz about her regret.
“This has been the biggest regret of my life,” she said. “My family means everything to me, and I’ve caused them great pain for these regretful choices I have made.”
The boys were 14 and 15 last summer when the mother-of-two began arriving at their parents’ homes for late-night rendezvous, according to investigators.
The mother would send the teenage boys photos and videos of herself in the bathtub and performing sexual acts via Snapchat before she started meeting them for sex, according to prosecutors.
A mother of the then-14-year-old-victim expressed how devastating the illegal sexual encounters had been, and continue to be, for her son via an impact statement read aloud by a victim advocate.
“You made a conscious effort on several occasions to make arrangements to meet my son, sneak out of your house, start your car, leave your husband and children at home and drive to my son’s father’s house, back into the driveway between midnight and 4am, wait for my son to run in the driveway, commit a crime and leave,” the mother wrote.
“Did you know that this was wrong? Did you ever worry about the harm you were doing to my son?”
The effects have been ongoing for the boy who is also bullied by classmates who said “it’s cool” that he had sex with the 38-year-old.
WATCH: Distressing victim statement read in court.
“My son shared with me that the guys at school have no idea what he’s been going through and how he struggles,” the mother wrote. “He has had to stay strong in front of them.”
The mother also asked Lajiness receive the same sentencing as a man who had sex with a minor.
Her attorney, David I. Goldstein disagreed, saying: “To say this should be treated exactly the same if she were a man dealing with young girls is not true.
“I think society recognizes that men and women deal with sex and sexuality much differently, both as adults and as children. I think the court will be able to discern that difference in passing sentence.”
Lajiness’ husband blamed the sexual assaults on her insomnia and prosecutors said the defendant and her husband both wrote letters to the judge shifting the blame to the victims.
“It was this defendant’s actions that brought her here,” Assistant Washtenaw County Prosecutor John Vella said.
