SBM Seeks Depressed, Lonely and Vulnerable Alcoholic Needing Attention, Adoration and Admiration for Game of Hide the Vodka Bottle

A woman who had sex with a 15-year-old boy will not spend time behind bars despite her “foolish lapse.”

Judge Lance Pilgrim sentenced Diana Nicole Bennett this morning after she pleaded guilty in the County Court to one count of sexual penetration of a child under the age of 16, a charge that carries a maximum jail term of 10 years …

Bennett, a volunteer worker, went to the boy's house in January 2005 dressed in underwear and a cardigan after he had telephoned her at home one morning and invited her to his house.

The pair were caught by a friend of the boy's who walked into the room while they were having sex. The court heard Bennett drank three bottles of vodka straight each week and her alcohol problem played a role in her offending.

Defence lawyer Richard Backwell said at the time Bennett was a depressed, lonely and vulnerable alcoholic who had sought “attention, adoration and admiration.”

He said three weeks after the incident, she voluntarily contacted police to make full admissions without which a case could not have been mounted.

While the boy's parents still spoke to Bennett who had visited them on several occasions, he was now rude and unpleasant towards her, although he did not write a victim impact statement.

I'll bet. I'll also bet that when he called her he wasn't expecting her to show up at the end of a bender, to have sloppy sex with him, and then hide her vodka bottle in his anal cavity when she “thought she heard someone pull up.” (Point of information: tonic makes a terrible lube.) That's just the sort of thing to make a 16-year-old turn rude and unpleasant. It's also the only thing that would prevent a young man from writing about his fling with a older woman.