Heather Salines: Massachusetts Mom Pleads Guilty To Raping Teen Brothers
A judge has sentenced Heather Salines, a Massachusetts mother of two, to four years in prison for raping two brothers who were then 14 and 15, after she entered a guilty plea.
One of the teens was her daughter’s boyfriend. Salines was married at the time, but is now divorced.
Salines, 40, entered into a plea bargain right before her trial was set to start.
Yesterday, Salines “pleaded guilty to two counts of child rape, two counts of child enticement, two counts of dissemination of obscene matter to a minor and one count of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14 yesterday in Essex Superior Court in Salem,” the Boston Herald explained.
The sentence also includes three years probation and registering as a sex offender once she gets out of jail.
Last year, Salines was reportedly about to enter a plea deal in connection with charges related to allegedly raping one of the underage boys when his brother came forward with allegations that the woman had also raped him, the Inquisitr previously reported.
“Prosecutors had alleged that Salines acted like a mother to the two boys, after their own mother had passed away…[prosecutor Kate] MacDougall said Salines was caught after she and one of the boys took pictures together in a Danvers hotel room and he shared some of those nude photos with classmates at Saugus Middle School,” NECN noted.
Saugus woman gets 4 years after pleading guilty to raping underage boys: https://t.co/noGCZvFebv
— WickedLocal North (@WLNorthOfBoston) September 12, 2016
Upon completing her sentence, Salines is also prohibited from any unsupervised contact with anyone under age 16 and must wear a GPS ankle bracelet. Apparently, she would have faced up to 10 years behind bars if she had been found guilty in a trial.
The woman allegedly had sex with the 15-year-old in a parked car and then a local motel two years ago, “According to court papers, Salines raped the second boy at her home in February 2014, about a month before the initial alleged incident. Prosecutors said Salines sent the boy explicit pictures of herself,” the Daily Mail indicated.
Some media accounts describe the brothers as twins, but that does not seem too likely given their slight age difference.
The woman’s attorney described the plea bargain, which reportedly gained the approval of the victims, as “the best possible outcome under circumstances,” the Eagle Tribune recounted.
Outside the courtroom after the sentencing, the lawyer had these remarks.
“My client is looking forward to putting this matter behind her, serving her time quietly, and getting back together with her family so they can all build their lives together moving forward after she serves her sentence. The long and short of it is this: My client is apologetic for everything that’s gone on. She feels terrible to all concerned, especially her own family, and she looks forward to serving her sentence quietly and getting back together with her son, her daughter, her husband and building their lives together moving forward.”
Will Korman, attorney for Heather Salines, speaks to reporters after her sentencing in sexual assault on teen boy… https://t.co/J4tqv3LhtX
— Julie Manganis (@SNJulieManganis) September 12, 2016
One of the victims advised the court that the sexual encounter with the woman who was originally a mother figure made him suicidal, WickedLocal reported about the sentencing hearing.
“Neither victim spoke in court Monday, but MacDougall read a statement written by the boy who had dated Salines’s daughter outlining how the incidents had scarred him. ‘Eventually, Heather took this relationship to another level,’ he wrote. ‘She was 38 years old at the time, but since she was having problems with her husband, she was convinced that sexual activity with me was OK. This was something she knew was wrong, but tried to convince me otherwise.’ The victim wrote he sank into a deep depression immediately after the encounters with Salines, and was ‘both praised and teased by peers.'”
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