WV- Mercer County Woman Sentenced on Sex Charges

Would a man get such a sentence? Or, is the judge taking into consideration that, registering as a sex offender for 10 years is sufficient punishment? Note: This is following being sentenced to prison and appeal based on prosecutor's remarks, then case was remanded for a new trial; the result is below.

12-2-2008 West Virginia:

Mindy Keesecker will spend a month in jail.

PRINCETON- -- It's a month behind bars for a Princeton mother convicted of sexually abusing a teen boy.

In Mercer County court this afternoon, Mindy Keesecker was sentenced to two one-to-five year prison terms. But both were suspended.

Instead, she'll spend the next 30 days in jail.

She'll be on probation for five years and will have to register as a sex offender for the next ten years. Investigators say Keesecker had a relationship with a teen boy while serving as a church group chaperone.

She pleaded guilty in November to two counts of first degree sexual abuse(Sexual abuse occurs when a person subjects another person to sexual contact without their consent, and that lack of consent is due to physical force, threat or intimidation.). ..News Source.. by WVNS