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<h6 class="asset-headline"><span style="color:#1c0101;">Elaine B. Goodman of Dover, Delware was spared jail and was handed two yearsof probation after pleading guilty to raping her daughter&#8217;s 13-year-old boyfriend, Thursday</span></h6>
<h6 class="asset-headline"><span style="color:#1c0101;">Goodman, approaching her 45 birthday was arrested for having sex with a 13-year-old boy in her car on in the early hours of a spring morning, last year</span></h6>
<h6 class="asset-headline"><span style="color:#1c0101;">She was charged with fourth-degree rape, three counts of third-degree rape, two counts of second-degree unlawful sexual contact, and sexual solicitation of a child </span></h6>
<h6 class="asset-headline"><span style="color:#1c0101;">She was facing 15 years in jail</span></h6>
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<section id="module-position-PpercxyY3pA" class="storytopbar-bucket google-survey-module story-google-survey-module">A 46-year-old woman from Dover, Delware was given two years probation on Thursday in Kent County Superior Court after pleading guilty in November to fourth-degree rape for having sex with her daughter&#8217;s 13-year-old boyfriend.</section>
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<p class="">Elaine B. Goodman faced up to 15 years in prison, but Judge Robert B. Young delivered a soft landing after he took into account that this was &#8220;an aberration&#8221; and that Goodman has shown compassion not only in taking care of her elderly parents but also to others in the community.<br />
&#8220;This came out of the blue,&#8221; Young said. &#8220;The crime is egregious and affected the victim and his family, which was taken into account. But incarceration is not the answer.&#8221;<br />
Goodman&#8217;s attorney, James E. Liguori, told judge Young that &#8220;there is goodness in this woman&#8221; and that she recognized what she did was wrong and has been humbled by the experience.<br />
&#8220;I just know she is truly, truly hurt to the arecore by how much she hurt so many people,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Everyone is trying to move forward and by admitting her guilt, we can do so.&#8221;<br />
Deputy Attorney General Denise Weeks-Tappan saw things a little differently, saying Goodman knew what she was doing when she met the boy in the early morning hours of March 15 and that she was only thinking of herself.<br />
&#8220;This mom, who he trusted, instructed him on what to do,&#8221; Weeks-Tappan said. &#8220;The crime has affected the victim in many ways. He&#8217;s hurt, embarrassed and it is affecting his schooling. When the defendant committed this crime, she took something away from him. He was not a willing participant, but a victim.&#8221;<br />
The defendant told judge Young and the court that she was truly sorry for her actions.<br />
&#8220;I know sorry is just a word, but I really am,&#8221; the sobbing Goodman said. &#8220;I know I hurt people and that is terrible.&#8221;<br />
According to court documents, Goodman had arranged to meet the boy, who was sneaking out of his house to meet her at about 1 a.m. in March, a few weeks before her 45th birthday.<br />
The pair drove around for a while, then parked and sat in the back seat talking and being intimate until about 4:30 in the morning, when Goodman had to drop him off at home and get ready for work, according to the documents.</p>
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Delware woman Elaine B. Goodman, given probation, spared jail despite pleading guilty to raping her daughter’s 13-year-old boyfriend
