Teen's statements on alleged 'f***** up' sex with stepmom greenlit

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A Florida teen who claimed he was seduced and had sex with his nurse stepmother while his dad was at work will see his statements allowed in court, a judge ruled.

Alexis Yates, 35, of Ocala, has pleaded not guilty to sexual battery on a person 12 to 18 years of age by someone in familial custody.

Judge Timothy T. McCourt ruled that statements made by Yates’ stepson to a forensic interviewer from the child protection entity Safe Shores can now be used as evidence at her sexual battery trial.

The judge said the boy “did not shy away from making statements that would cast himself in a negative light (i.e., admitting marijuana the night of the incident, and frequently in the months leading up to it) as part of an overall description of the act.”

McCourt added that the alleged victim could have minimized his drug use, but did not. In the end, that bolstered the teen’s credibility and “overall reliability.”

The judge said: “While he was not displaying emotions like sadness, the child … nevertheless expressed a mix of emotions consistent with the complex situation in which he then found himself (a situation the child himself referred to as being ‘f***ed up’).”

According to cops, the nurse was arrested last year when she was allegedly caught red-handed by her husband, Frank, sexually assaulting his biological son.

Investigators claim they responded to an anonymous tip.

The boy — who lives with his mother in Washington, D.C. — told detectives he was visiting his father for the summer when his stepmother sexually assaulted him.

“His father worked late hours as a lineman,” Yates’ arrest affidavit states. “The child victim was hanging out with his stepmother while she was taking care of his younger siblings. … Around 11 p.m., the two of them began relaxing on the couch, ‘hitting’ a THC cartridge together while playing a video game. Several hours later … they decided to watch a movie.”

But the boy and Yates both found the movie boring. They began discussing “other things” and Yates allegedly made sexual advances toward her stepson.

The pair then engaged in several sexual acts, including intercourse. Yates, the boy said, had been dropping sexual jokes and innuendos for the week leading up to the incident.

Yates’ employer, the Florida Department of Health, issued an emergency suspension order last month after her arrest was first reported. She had been operating under a single-state licence as a registered nurse since 2016.

“While any situation where parents share custody of a child lends itself the possibility of improper influence, there was no evidence that there was any domestic dispute ongoing at the time of this incident,” McCourt said, adding that the teen was a “particularly intelligent and mature young man.”

“(The teen) appeared to be somewhat worldly and familiar with adult things (e.g., he described using a THC vape before having sex with Defendant, and smoking weed ‘pretty much every day’ he was in Florida),” McCourt added.

“When considered together with the totality of circumstances attendant to this case, consideration of this factor weighs moderately in favour of the reliability of the child’s statements.”

A police report citing the teen revealed the whopper Yates told her husband.

“(The victim) overheard the suspect telling (his) father she was sorry, saying the child victim looks like his father when he was younger,” the police report said.

The following day, she told the victim she did not realize “how big” his penis was, adding: “It looked like his father’s penis with younger skin.”

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