January 30, 2013
Mass. woman who posed as boy for sex gets 7 years
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CLARKSBURG, W.Va. -- A Massachusetts woman who posed as a teenage boy to prey on a West Virginia girl will spend more than seven years in prison.

U.S. District Judge Irene Keeley on Tuesday ordered 25-year-old Carissa Hads of Quincy to serve 87 months.

Hads pleaded guilty last fall to traveling across state lines with the intention of having sex with a minor.

Investigators say Hads pretended to be an 18-year-old male on a social networking site and started a relationship with the Lewis County victim in 2010. The two communicated for more than a year before their first in-person meeting.

A State Police investigator said Hads wore colored contact lenses and a back brace to cover her chest.

She visited the 15-year-old girl at least three times, once at a Pittsburgh motel.

 

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