MI mom faces charges for sex with minor

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) - The U.S. Attorney has charged a Michigan woman with luring a minor for sex over the internet through an online video game.

They met through the online video game "World of Warcraft," where players can talk to each other, and investigators say 34-year-old Angie Jenkins soon took her relationship with a 15-year-old Williamsville boy to another level.

In U.S. District Court, prosecutor Aaron Mingo revealed that Jenkins was calling and texting the teenager and the two exchanged intimate pictures of each other. She posed as a 21-year-old woman, and he originally told her he was 20-years-old.

>>>Read the criminal complaint against Angie Jenkins here

Investigators say when the teenager's parents got suspicious, they blocked Jenkins phone calls from his cell phone. When that didn't work, they took his cell phone away altogether. But Jenkins found other ways of communicating with the boy and eventually bought him a new phone so they could continue their liaisons.

Investigators say Jenkins, a mother of five, rented a car and drove from her home in Lowell, Michigan to have sex with the now 16-year-old boy in the back seat of her car in a department store parking lot in Amherst. Eventually, the parents contacted authorities and Jenkins was arrested last month. Federal Judge Hugh Scott ordered a mental health evaluation.

Defense attorney Kimberly Schechter said, "I think it's a good idea."

In testimony on Friday, the prosecution says that even though Angie Jenkins knew she was dealing with a 16-year-old, she continued to send him e-mails, calling him a coward, claiming he promised to marry her, and threatening to kill herself. Following the mental evaluation, they are due back in court next month.