From the Harford County State’s Attorney’s Office:
Rachel Ann Hicks, a 37 year old woman from Orange County, California, was sentenced to serve 12 years in prison for a sexual offense committed against a 13 year old Harford County. Ms. Hicks met the boy while playing the game X-Box live, then contacted him through email and eventually obtained a cell phone number. She traveled from Florida, where her parents reside, to the boy’s family’s residence in Bel Air, Maryland, the day after Thanksgiving, 2010. She made arrangements with the boy in advance to meet him and he let her into the family home during the middle of the night, while his family was asleep. They went into his room and began playing video games until she sexually assaulted him. She then returned to California.
The boy’s father found text messages on the boy’s cell phone from an unfamiliar number in California and brought the case to the Harford County Child Advocacy Center. The father participated in the investigation which resulted in a telephone call being placed to Ms. Hicks, who admitted that she met the boy through the game, and traveled to Bel Air where she engaged in sexual relations with the boy. The defendant was charged and was extradited from California to Harford County for prosecution.
She entered a guilty plea to one count of Second Degree Rape on June 2, 2011. She was sentenced on August 3, 2011 by Judge William O. Carr of the Circuit Court for Harford County, to the maximum of 20 years 8 of which were suspended. She is to serve the remaining 12 years in the Maryland Division of Correction, to be followed by 5 years of supervised probation, where she is ordered not to have contact with the boy or his family, is not to have unsupervised contact with any child under the age of 18, is to undergo sexual offender treatment, and also required to register as a sex offender for the rest of her life.
At sentencing, the prosecutor, Diane Adkins Tobin told the Court “we have an obligation to protect our boys from on-line solicitation and on-line predators in the same way we protect our girls.” The victim’s father stated to the court, during a victim-impact statement, that his son was manipulated into trusting Ms. Hicks, and that she took advantage of his trust by selfishly stealing his innocence. She abused him both physically and mentally. She also devastated the family by sneaking into their home while the family was asleep and sexually abusing their child. The family did not know Ms. Hicks.
The case was investigated by Trooper Michelle Workman of the Maryland State Police, the Harford County Sheriff’s Office, assisted by the Orange County California Sheriff’s Office, the FBI, and the U.S. Marshall’s Service.
im getting real pissed says
this woman must be really low why do that to a child, then come to maryland from california, this women must be a beast
Dity uncle Sam says
12 years for that!!!!!!!!! Was the kid retarded or something?
1voice says
Please remove the mean spirited comment posted by DITY UNCLE SAM. It is hurtful and harmful and dismissive. The child should not be ridiculed in this or any other forum.
I believe the poster of this comment has proclivities that should not be entertained in this arena. Please stop it now.
im getting real pissed says
they must have been chatting for a wile, who drives all that way for a child, think of how many others she has molested, i guarantee this is not the only one
What? says
I agree she should not have done what she did, but it is impossible to actually rape a male unless you go in thru the back door. The penis just doesn’t work unless you want it. I’m sure the boy wanted the sexual contact, don’t you remember being 12 or 13, where just looking at girls in gym shorts made you stand at attention. I think a sentence of 12 years is a little drastic for giving a male teen ager a private lesson. What all of you are calling a heinous crime have to realize is this woman is a young man’s dream! You do have to wonder about her reasoning though, who travels thousands of miles to give someone a lift, especially when you’ve never met them before.
im getting real pissed says
He better get checked for HIV herpes, stds if she came all that way obiviosly NOONE wanted her in all those other places
reality says
This case is just pure garbage and is proof that the current Harford County Judiciary is unfair and basically a joke. Judge Carr, the Administrative Judge for our judicially declining county, sentenced this woman to 20 years for an offense that doesn’t even compare to the misdeeds of others. Let me take you back two years and remind everyone of Justin Eugene McGuire, who raped his young (5 or 6 yrs old) cousin in both the vagina and the anus yet is only serving 7 1/2 years for a brutal sex crime that doesn’t even compare to a woman giving a 12 year old boy a snarling. And remember McGuire repeatedly assaulted this young girl every time he was her baby sitter. Carr, what are you thinking? Now our state has to pick up the bill for her incarceration for 12 years and her crime is basically nowhere near the same degree as this other young assailant. There is no way this woman deserved her sentence! The father of the victim (huh) is just disappointed his 12 year old son got more action than he did that night! So thank you Judge Carr for putting someone away for way too long for a bunch of nonsense and thank you to the retiring Judge Marshall for putting a legitimate sexual predator in jail for half her sentence and a crime 10 times as repulsive as this poor woman’s. Sentencing should be taken away from these Judges in the Harford County Judiciary as absolutely no sense can be made of recent decisions by our cenile Judges. Marshall, you can’t retire soon enough you crook!
im getting real pissed says
This woman is sick, she doesnt need to be locked up she needs to be Hung, this is not like the boy who plays with the neighbors mother, this is the boy who had a woman come into the house, This woman has some balls to do that. She has balls to meet a kid, wtf was she thinking, hasent she ever seen Dateline where they bust preadators, I mean come on lady you got some real balls here, and your sick who does that?