Post by Cog on Apr 8, 2009 5:06:31 GMT -5
Former jail counselor convicted of sexual misconduct with teen begins sentence
A former mental-health counselor reported to the King County Jail on Monday morning to begin serving a six-month sentence stemming from her conviction for sexual misconduct with an incarcerated 17-year-old boy.
As a counselor at the King County juvenile detention center in 2007, Flor-Mari Crisostomo, now 41, plied the teen with candy and allowed him to make phone calls in return for sexual favors, according to court documents.
Crisostomo, a married mother of two, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree custodial sexual misconduct in November and was sentenced to six months in jail in February, according to court records. Monday was the deadline for her to report to jail to begin serving her sentence.
While in jail, Crisostomo must undergo mental health and sexual deviancy treatment and after her release, she must register as a sex offender. She is also barred from counseling juveniles, from contacting the victim, who is now 19, and from being alone with children.
Between June and August 2007, Crisostomo counseled the teen, who has a long criminal history and was on suicide watch in the juvenile detention center.
The teen was convicted of armed robbery and sent to the Maple Lane School in Centralia. There, detention-center officials intercepted greeting cards Crisostomo sent the teen, with romantic messages indicating she was interested in pursuing a sexual relationship with the boy, court documents say.
Though the teen later told police he and Crisostomo had sex on the floor of an interview room, Crisostomo denied it but admitted to sexual touching, the documents say.
“She admitted she fell in love” with the victim and gave him candy and phone privileges, the court records say.
Crisostomo, who was employed by the University of Washington, has been stripped of her counseling licenses by the state Department of Health
A former mental-health counselor reported to the King County Jail on Monday morning to begin serving a six-month sentence stemming from her conviction for sexual misconduct with an incarcerated 17-year-old boy.
As a counselor at the King County juvenile detention center in 2007, Flor-Mari Crisostomo, now 41, plied the teen with candy and allowed him to make phone calls in return for sexual favors, according to court documents.
Crisostomo, a married mother of two, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree custodial sexual misconduct in November and was sentenced to six months in jail in February, according to court records. Monday was the deadline for her to report to jail to begin serving her sentence.
While in jail, Crisostomo must undergo mental health and sexual deviancy treatment and after her release, she must register as a sex offender. She is also barred from counseling juveniles, from contacting the victim, who is now 19, and from being alone with children.
Between June and August 2007, Crisostomo counseled the teen, who has a long criminal history and was on suicide watch in the juvenile detention center.
The teen was convicted of armed robbery and sent to the Maple Lane School in Centralia. There, detention-center officials intercepted greeting cards Crisostomo sent the teen, with romantic messages indicating she was interested in pursuing a sexual relationship with the boy, court documents say.
Though the teen later told police he and Crisostomo had sex on the floor of an interview room, Crisostomo denied it but admitted to sexual touching, the documents say.
“She admitted she fell in love” with the victim and gave him candy and phone privileges, the court records say.
Crisostomo, who was employed by the University of Washington, has been stripped of her counseling licenses by the state Department of Health