LOUISVILLE, Colo.-
A woman accused of conceiving two children with an underage boy was separated at the time from a man whom she had married when he was 18, according to court records.
Irene Marie Gomez, now 38, was arrested last week on suspicion of sexual assault. Authorities said she had conceived one child with the boy when he was 13 and another when he was 16.
Their relationship began in 2001, according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
Gomez had married another teen in July 2000 when she was 31 and he was 18, according to court records cited by the Daily Camera of Boulder in Thursday’s editions.
They separated less than a month later and divorced in March 2006, the newspaper reported.
According to the affidavit, Gomez told police the father of the children claimed he was 18 when they met. She said she learned he was a 13-year-old runaway six months later, when she was pregnant with their first child, but decided to continue the relationship, according to the affidavit.
Gomez faces charges of sexual assault and sexual assault on a child, police said. She was released from the Boulder County jail on $2,500 bond and had a court appearance scheduled for Friday.
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Information from: Daily Camera,
