She was 26, married and the mother of three children, and in early 2003 the Westminster woman initiated a sexual affair with the 13-year-old son of a close friend and eventually gave birth to the seventh-grader’s baby.
On Friday, Judge Harlan R. Bochman of Adams County District Court sentenced the now 29-year-old Angela Vasquez to one year in the Adams County Jail on work release on charges of sexual assault on a child. She also received a sentence of 10 years to life probation. The sentence was part of a plea deal reached between the Adams County district attorney’s office and Vasquez’s attorney, Harvey Steinberg.
Senior Deputy District Attorney J.P. Moore described the victim’s family as “satisfied” with the sentence.
The mother of the boy (the Denver Post and 9News do not reveal the names of sexual-assault victims) read a tearful, yet firm statement in court. As Vasquez listened, the boy’s mother described how Vasquez had ruined his life.
“My once happy little boy is now withdrawn, with thoughts of suicide, not wanting to be here to deal with his unnormal life,” she said.
She ended her statement: “Angela used my friendship, her relationship with God and the church to destroy my son’s life.”
According to her arrest affidavit, Vasquez met the boy and his family at the Life House Church in Henderson. The two families became friends and often had dinner together.
The affidavit states the sexual relationship between the two began in March 2003. The boy told investigators he was picking up toys in the basement of his family’s home when Vasquez approached him and “hugged and kissed” him. Shortly after that she asked him if he was a virgin and told him she could “teach him a lot” because she had experience. The affidavit describes how the relationship quickly turned sexual and before it ended in October or November of 2003, the two had engaged in sex about 20 times in various locations including his home, her home and her car.
Vasquez read a statement in court, describing the relationship as “a horrible mistake.”
Judge Bochman scolded her. “You planned and plotted” he said. “You knew what you were doing.”
This article has been corrected in this online archive. Originally in print, due to a reporting error, it omitted the probation sentence of 10 years to life.
