mental illness and didn’t have access to his medication, sheriff officials said.
The teen was then taken from Gaudette’s home to a facility until his mother could pick him up. He denied having a sexual relationship with the woman, as did Gaudette, who claimed she considered the teen as a son, offered him a place to stay and paid a friend to drive him to Florida.
But it soon all became undone.
The teen’s mother found text messages in June indicating the pair had a sexual relationship, as well as her son’s thumbdrive in July that contained nude images and videos of Gaudette, sheriff officials said.