Mother Sentenced for Raping Bel Air Boy
The woman has been ordered to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life.
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The 37-year-old California woman who pleaded guilty to second-degree rape of a Bel Air boy has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Rachel Ann Hicks, a mother of three from Lake Forest in Orange County, was sentenced Wednesday by Judge William O. Carr of the Harford County Circuit Court. She will serve her sentence in the Maryland Division of Correction.
She was sentenced to 20 years, eight of which were suspended by Carr. She pleaded guilty to the charge June 2.
Upon release, Hicks has been ordered to serve five years of supervised probation. She is prohibited from contacting the boy, who was 13 at the time, and his family and is not permitted to have unsupervised contact with anyone younger than 18. She was also ordered to undergo sexual offender treatment and register as a sex offender for the rest of her life.
Hicks was arrested at her home Jan. 7 by Orange County, CA, police after admitting to having sex with a 13-year-old Bel Air boy, whom she met playing Xbox Live.
Police said Hicks drove to Florida from California on Thanksgiving weekend to visit family and stopped in Maryland on the way home. During her visit to Bel Air she had sex with the boy at his home while his parents were sleeping in the house.
“We have an obligation to protect our boys from on-line solicitation and on-line predators in the same way we protect our girls,” Diane Adkins Tobin, the prosecuting attorney for the case, said in a statement.
The case was investigated by Trooper Michelle Workman of the Maryland State Police, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by the Orange County California Sheriff’s Office, the FBI, and the U.S. Marshall’s Service, the release stated.
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Hulkster
3:25 pm on Thursday, August 4, 2011
OK, this is a tough one for the Hulkster to follow. How does this boy get raped while his parents are in the house. Since the police arrested her at her home in CA, I am GUESSING he didn't scream out and wake his parents. I hope some more facts come out on this story.
Paul Peters
10:13 am on Monday, August 8, 2011
I don't know what country you're from but in AMERICA it's considered rape when an adult as sex an underage person be there any resistance or not. This is probably a good thing as I would argue that 13 year olds are on the average mentally less mature today than at any time in history.
c
4:00 pm on Thursday, August 4, 2011
Um - it was a CHILD - and whether they feel like it is against their will or not - it is a crime for an adult to do that... Really? Hard to follow???
Bren
4:55 pm on Thursday, August 4, 2011
R you serious ? How is this rape ? This is a 37 year old woman and a 13 year old boy.
He is a minor, it's child rape rather he consents or not . OMG, this woman got exactly what she deserved. Sick, sick, sick...
Hulkster
6:48 am on Friday, August 5, 2011
Yes, very hard to follow..i would be interrested in more info. How did she get in the house...why didn't he make wake his parents while the rape was occuring?
Is it illegal...YES. Should she be sentenced...YES.....12 years, I'm not sure...
"He is a minor, it's child rape rather he consents or not . OMG, this woman got exactly what she deserved" .... So everytime an 20 year old male has sex with a 16 year female old they should get 12 years...i don't think that happens...
I hope there is more to this story becuase the sentence doesn't seem to be fitting the crime in the above article...
Nick
2:45 pm on Friday, August 5, 2011
What if it was a 37 year old man and your 13 year old daughter? Bet you'd think differently then.
Joe
3:49 am on Saturday, August 6, 2011
That boy can never have a healthy, normal chaste relationship with a girl, or any sort of healthy balanced adult relationship without enormous difficulty. Much of the carefree joy and happiness of life has been stolen from him.The damage is permanent and devastating. Punishment for that kind of thoughtless, selfish, self centered theft should be death.
Paul West
6:33 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Joe I call BS on your post.
Joe
9:56 pm on Saturday, August 6, 2011
Paul.... I submit you were and are of course free to disagree, but labling my post a lie establishes your lack of knowledge and experience in the matter. It may also be that you are one of many who believe that you should be free to include children in your own sexual endevours. Having personal experience in the matter I propose you seek professional help.
lessthantolerant
5:59 am on Sunday, August 7, 2011
I had sex twice with older women, once when I was 13, she was 23 and again when I was 16 she was 30. I have had many great relationships with women and after being married 34 years, I enjoy my relationship with my wife of those 34 years.
While I do not condone sex with underage (18) children it happens. But punishment should fit the crime here. Statutory rape is a crime, probably was when I was young.
As far as affecting my faculties, I enjoyed both times and fondly remember them.
Joserodregez
5:54 pm on Sunday, August 7, 2011
lessthantolerant
Totally agree, well said! Then the kid goes to school and gets high fives & good jobs all-round and the girl goes to prison.. NOPE.. I am assuming this kid, like 99.9% of teenage boys, was NOT struggling to get away... but , going hellya, gimmie sum mo a dat shuga. There we be no emotional scars here !
Paul Peters
9:17 am on Monday, August 8, 2011
The fact that she has been sentenced to 12 years is probably indicative of the fact that the boy's parents strongly DISAPPROVE with him having sexual relations with an older woman, which should be well within their right. You don't really know what the effects of this will be on the boy, and it's probably different for all people. Most psychology experts say that when underage boys having sex with older women does usually affect them in negative ways in the near and long term, even if the effects tend to be slightly different if not more dramatic for girls. I would imagine if your 13 daughter had "consensual" sex with a 37 year old man your immediate reaction would be to get your hands on the nearest baseball bat to you, and if not, then I would have to at least wonder about your commitment to being a father.
john oakman
11:48 am on Sunday, August 7, 2011
this dude is a hero to his and he was bragging about it---how do you think the police got involved?
ambro
4:36 pm on Sunday, August 7, 2011
PUHleez y'all!! Couldn't the parents here the boy screaming in pain and for help, struggling and fighting to preserve his virginity when the rape occured?
Joe
12:44 am on Monday, August 8, 2011
WOW...sex with children happens? Gimmie sum mo a dat shuga? He's a hero? He didnt resist, so its not rape? Then someone relates his own child rape story and how wonderful it was? WOW...you guys really support pedophiles? I hope the moderator has the good sense to forward your IP addresses to the BAPD for investigation. Someone needs to make sure the children in YOUR neighborhoods are safe!!
Tula May
11:26 am on Monday, August 8, 2011
Joe is a closet member of NAMBLA...I think he protest a little too much...I had sex a fifteen, I am not destroyed...
Traci J.
7:12 am on Monday, August 8, 2011
Some of these comments are a little scary. You have a 13-year-old child who is approached online. She is 37 years old; SNEAKS into the house while the parents are sleeping; has sex with your child and you're ok with that???? She's raising 3 children of her own, to boot. And you people think it should be high-fived???? Gawd, what is this world coming to?
Tula May
11:27 am on Monday, August 8, 2011
What she did was insane but boys and girls are different.
Joe
2:39 pm on Monday, August 8, 2011
There is a reason that teens are not allowed to vote or consent to sexual relations with adults. I believe children of any age should be protected from sexual exploitation and I end up being accused of being a "closet" pedophile...WOW! Boys and girls are different...huh. I think its quite possible someone could be damaged by underage exploitation and never even know it. I will pray for those people.
Leonard
11:48 am on Tuesday, August 9, 2011
I'm sure the sex was consentual, but the law is the law I believe in most states the age of consent is 16 so I'm sure even in California, having sex at those ages constitutes a crime being committed. Bottom line, she is old enough to know better and should have considered her own children over her libido.
Maryland law concerning this: http://moraloutrage.net/state-laws/maryland-age-of-consent-laws/
Kyle Bradley
11:07 am on Monday, August 15, 2011
She got 12 years instead of 180 days like a similar case in another state b/c this is Hartford County MD. I just left the detention center there and actually talked to and met Ms Hicks. This county gives people a year for driving on a suspended license and 18 months for a first DUI. Half the people there are in there for traffic violations. It's all about the money they make charging $1.12 for roman noodles and $7.95 for a t-shirt or boxers.
Tazz
3:15 pm on Tuesday, August 16, 2011
She received 12 years because she contacted the boy from CA and then consumated the relationship by driveing to his house in the middle of the night in November. As someone that knows Rachel better than anybody else on here. I was hoping for the 60 years she was facing before the plea deal. At least that way her kids and the 13 year old kids of her friends do not have to worry about her doing the same thing to them. Now that she is prison she is still saying that she can't wait to get out so she can catch up on her games. You tell me how long a person like that should be locked up?