Woman sentenced for having sex with teen

By DAVE HAWKINS SPECIAL TO THE LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL

August 12, 2014 - 9:47 am

KINGMAN, Ariz. — A Lake Havasu City woman who had numerous sexual encounters with a boy she met through her high school-age children has been sentenced to the Arizona Department of Corrections.

Mohave County Superior Court Judge Derek Carlisle ordered a 3½-year prison sentence Monday for Tammy Hankins, 43.

Most of the sentence was for violating probation for her previous drug conviction by having sex with the 16 year-old. The judge tacked on another year for the sexual relations.

Carlisle said society might apply a double standard when comparing men having sex with girls to women having sex with boys, but he said his prison sentence reflect that the law makes no such distinction.

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