A 44-year-old Melbourne mother adopted the mindset of "a self-indulgent teenage girl" when she carried out a sexual relationship with a teenage friend of her son, a judge has said.
The woman, now 52, supplied the boy with alcohol, drugs and lavish gifts to maintain their three-year relationship, which began when he was just 13.
She was sentenced to seven years in jail, with a minimum of five years, in the Victorian County Court today.
Judge Carolyn Douglas said the woman was actively grooming the teenager between 2002 and 2005.
"Clearly your conduct was predatory," she told her.
The teenager was a school friend of the woman's son and would regularly sleep over at her house.
On those occasions, the woman would sneak into the room to have sex with him, sometimes as her son slept nearby.
As the boy got older, the woman began supplying him and his friends with alcohol and drugs.
Judge Douglas said the fact she began drinking, smoking drugs and socialising with them was evidence of the woman's mental impairment at the time of her crimes.
"You conducted yourself with the state of mind of a self-indulgent teenage girl," he told the woman, who cannot be named to protect the victim's identity.
Judge Douglas accepted a psychologist's report that described the woman as depressed and unsophisticated, with limited social skills.
She said her impaired state of mind reduced the moral culpability of her crimes.
The woman had pleaded guilty to one count of maintaining a sexual relationship with a child under 16.
AAP
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