An Aberdeen mum had sex with a 15-year-old boy after inviting him into her home and telling him to “down” a glass of wine.
Jacqueline Milne was 33 when she had sex with a teenager on three different occasions.
Aberdeen Sheriff Court was told she and her victim had been at the same party together and he had walked her home.
She invited him in for a drink, poured a glass of wine and instructed him to “down it”.
Fiscal depute Lynne MacVicar said Milne then told the boy to take off his top before kissing him and taking him to her bedroom.
She then performed a sex act on him before the pair had intercourse that evening and again the following morning.
“Over the following weeks, the accused was in contact with him and they had intercourse on one further occasion around the end of May 2019 following communications from the accused,” the fiscal added.
Rumours circulated about pair
Milne – who is now 36 – was confronted about her behaviour by the woman who had hosted the party after hearing rumours about the pair.
She initially denied it but later admitted to having intercourse with the boy.
Police were contacted when the boy’s parents heard the same rumours and found messages on his Facebook app which suggested sexual acts had taken place.
One message showed the boy making contact with Milne and stating he wanted to fight another man.
She later replied: “You came to my house when I was drunk, had sex with me which I have no memory of whatsoever … that can be classed as rape, so stop threatening me please.”
The boy’s response was “haha”.
In a police interview, Milne told officers she thought the boy was 17.
Milne, of Wellheads Avenue, Dyce, initially denied a charge of engaging in sexual activity with someone under the age of 16, but changed her plea before a trial last month.
‘Disgusted, ashamed and appalled’
Defence agent Liam McAllister said his client had struggled to cope with “various traumas” in her life at the time.
“She is rightly disgusted, ashamed, embarrassed and appalled that at the age of 36 she finds herself troubling the court for the first time and for such conduct,” he said.
“It was a time in her life when she was not coping with various traumas and crises in her life. She was turning to alcohol to block these out.”
He said the boy was “never in any way interested” in going to the police but was “more than happy” for their relations to become public.
“She accepts what she did was wrong,” Mr McAllister added.
“She is appalled that she did it and asks that the court give her an opportunity to make amends for that and move on with her life the best she can given the mistakes she made.
“A community payback order would not be a soft approach, it will be a difficult journey for her.”
Milne moved out of the city following the offence and through assistance from social workers had found “stability” elsewhere and was seeing more of her children.
Hard work ahead
Sheriff Morag McLaughlin told her: “There are some hard things you need to address and hard work you need to do – as your solicitor said this is not a ‘soft option’.
“I do believe that you will not be troubling the court again.”
She ordered Milne to remain under the supervision of social workers for two years and carry out 225 hours of unpaid work.
She was also placed on the sex offenders’ register for two years.
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