An Arkansas woman who attempted to frame her husband by downloading child pornography onto his phone and telling authorities he raped a 13-year-old managed has been ordered by a judge to register as a sex offender.
She will not be going to jail.
via NYDN:
Cherie Renee Bolton was also sentenced this week to six years of probation and will have to pay more than $2,000 in fines and court fees for the nefarious plot she orchestrated against her husband.
Bolton first met with detectives in May 2017 to report her husband for child porn possession, according to a probable cause affidavit. She also told officers he raped her teen daughter and showed them images on his cellphone featuring underage children in suggestive clothing and performing sexual acts.
Officers took the phone for forensic testing and interviewed the 13-year-old, who told them that she felt safe with her father and that he never abused her. When officers interviewed Bolton’s husband, who was not identified, he denied having any knowledge of the illicit images on his phone.
Bolton in a later interview with law enforcement said she could not remember finding the child porn or reporting the assault. In a follow-up interview, she added that if her husband said he did not hurt her daughter, it was likely true as he does not lie, according to authorities.
Then “Bolton became visibly upset as her lip was trembling, her eyes were watery, and she placed her head down repeatedly,” according to the affidavit.
Eventually, the mother admitted to downloading child pornography onto her husband’s phone to get back at him for preventing her from seeing their kids after he kicked her out of their apartment. She added that she was using meth at the, according to court documents.
Bolton on Monday pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and filing a false police report. She’s been required to serve the entirety of her six years of probation with no possibility for a shortened sentence.
That’s exactly what she gets.
