
Need a quick $2000? If you live near Columbus, Ohio, you could earn that cash quickly if you spot Becky Jo Tatum, a 41-year-old mother of two who's accused of having sex with a 14-year-old girl. Apparently, it happened at a party Tatum hosted earlier this month and apparently isn't the only time she's been accused of doing something like this. Allegedly it happened with a 17-year-old boy at some point, but they haven't been able to find the kid to press charges. At right, Becky Jo Tatum's mug shot picture. Memorize it and imagine it with a $2000 bill attached to it.
Here's more from 10TV:
Police issued an arrest warrant for Becky Jo Tatum earlier this week after the allegations surfaced in a search warrant, 10TV's Tracy Townsend reported.
The warrant revealed that the 14-year-old girl was at Tatum's home earlier this month when the alleged sexual conduct occurred. The teenager said that she "had been drinking and had a buzz" prior to the incident, according to the warrant.
The teen described Tatum as "flirtatious" and said that Tatum took her by "her left hand (and) guided her upstairs to the master bedroom" where the two had sexual contact.
After Tatum, 41, and the teen allegedly engaged in sexual activity, the girl claimed that Tatum told her that "they had done something bad."
According to Tatum's daughter, her mother has engaged in sexual activity with a number of her friends, Townsend reported.
"(She's) done this before with my friends; I'm kind of used to it," Tatum's daughter said.
EARLIER REPORT: According to police, the case began as an investigation into possible drug activity.
"This all started out as a drug investigation and as a result of the drug investigation we seized Becky's computers," said Bexley police Detective Bob Cuschleg. "Looking at the computers we found images that were a little disturbing."
Cuschleg did not elaborate on the images, but said they were of children '"role playing," 10TV's Tracy Townsend reported.
"There's actually no sexual act in the images on the computer," Cuschleg said. "What we've done is we have investigated the images we found on the computer (and) we found a victim that actually had a sexual contact with Becky Jo Tatum."
Tatum, 41, is described as white, 6 feet tall and weighs 145 pounds. She has brown hair and brown eyes.
Records obtained by 10TV News on Monday showed that Tatum was previously charged with prostitution, theft and drug trafficking, Townsend reported.
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2 comments:
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it odd that Detective Bob Cuschleg refers to her by her first name-Becky?
Bexley, OH---now it comes to me-that's also the town with a law against installing or using slot machines in the outhouses.
Undoubtedly a swell place!
I have never heard of that law, and doubt it's true.
I am from Columbus, and Bexley is a great neighborhood. The Ohio governor's house is there....
The biggest claim to fame however is that Larry Flint of Hustler fame lived there as well....which probably is a little more closely related to this story!
But truth be told, it's an affluent Jewish neighborhood in the near east-side.
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