'Blackout Drunk' Mistook Son She Molested for Boyfriend: Court

LIVINGSTON COUNTY, MI – A Michigan woman who admitted in court testimony that she was “blackout drunk” when she mistook her 11-year-old son for her boyfriend and molested him will spend the next year in the county jail.

The Livingston Daily Press & Argus said in its report of the the 39-year-old woman’s Friday sentencing in 44th Circuit Court that it did not identify her because doing so would identify the victim.

The woman, who had earlier pleaded guilty to second-degree criminal sexual conduct, was also placed on probation for five years. A third-degree child abuse charge was dismissed.

Judge Michael P. Hatty said the evidence showed the contact between the mother and her son was the result of intoxication and that she believed “that person was her boyfriend and not her son, but nonetheless it doesn’t justify it in any way.”

Her attorney, Terry Olson, called the molestation “a tragic, horrible error” that resulted from a combination of intoxication and mental illness.

“I don’t think she was a pedophile before this and I don’t think she’ll be a pedophile again,” he said.