Lufkin, Texas Often these days, we see females getting-off with fairly lenient punishment for sexual offenses against young boys. A judge in Texas interrupted the trend this week.
Despite the woman’s tearful apology and plea for forgiveness, an Angelina County judge sentenced 33-year-old Natalie Johnson to 25 years in prison for having sex with a 13-year-old boy. Johnson pleaded guilty back in February.
Court papers say Natalie Johnson claimed that her judgment was impaired by drugs and booze during them month-long relationship with the teenager. Johnson further claimed that she was trying to cope with her mother's terminal illness and often resorted to marijuana and crystal meth, though never, she told the court, when the boy was around. On those occasions, she said, she stuck strictly to tequila, but also admitted that she got the boy drunk at least once.
According to earlier published reports, Johnson and the teen boy had sex approximately seven times last summer. Johnson was a longtime friend of her victim's parents and had a 13-year-old son of her own.
The boy would often meet-up with Johnson after sneaking out of his grandparents' home in the middle of the night. Some of the encounters took place in a park and others in Johnson's apartment. Investigators later found over 1,500 calls and text messages between Johnson and the boy.
During the sentencing, Natalie Johnson told the court:
"I'd like to ask all of you for your forgiveness," Johnson said through tears to the victim's family. "This wasn't something I would normally do and I'm truly, truly sorry."
The boy’s mother said the apology fell on deaf ears. She told The Lufkin Daily News:
"I wanted to tell her 'how would you feel if I did this to your son?'" the boy's mother said shaking her head. "Twenty-five years was what I wanted. I wanted my son to be old enough to handle it when she gets out of prison."
Natalie Johnson was a resident of Deer Park, Texas before moving to Diboll in East Texas.
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