A Portage woman has been charged in connection with the molestation of a boy younger than 14, the Porter County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office said.

Teresa L. Lloyd, 46, of 1002 Sun Valley Drive, was charged on Jan. 15 with two counts of child molesting.

According to the probable cause affidavit filed by Det. Joe Reynolds of the Portage Police Department, in November 2009 the father of a 16-year-old boy reported his belief that Lloyd had molested his son. The father advised that, after picking the boy up from a friend’s house following a school dance, he thought it a good opportunity on the drive home to speak with his son about safe sex and abstinence.

In response the boy told his father that Lloyd had been “not very nice” to him when he was younger, Reynolds stated. When his father asked him what he meant by that, the boy said that for a period of around two years Lloyd and he would have intercourse at least once a week, Reynolds stated.

In a subsequent interview, the boy advised that, “when the two first started having sexual intercourse, (Lloyd) told him not to tell anybody about it because they would both get into trouble,” Reynolds stated. “However, he advised that he didn’t realize what they were doing was wrong until he had a sex education class. He stated at that point, he realized it was wrong and refused to continue doing so. He stated (Lloyd) tried for several weeks afterward to get him to engage in intercourse. However, he continued to refuse and eventually she stopped trying to get him to do so.”

The boy also advised “that he didn’t tell sooner because he was afraid of what would happen to him and advised he only told his father because the two were already talking about sex and he found it easy to bring up,” Reynolds stated.

Child molesting is a Class A felony punishable by a term of 20 to 50 years.

Posted 1/29/2010