Mom Speaks Out In Stalking Case

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Oklahoma City woman is speaking out about the Florida woman accused of arranging an encounter with her teenage son through an online video game and having sex with him. The woman, whose name is not being used to protect her son's identity, said she thought her son was playing video games with Annamay Alexander's children. She said she later found out that Alexander had taken her son to a motel for sex."He was innocent and she stole it from him," the woman said. Police said Alexander, 44, was a married mother of three when the case started. The teenage boy's mother said Alexander introduced him to members of her family. "He met the husband, the mother and children," the woman said. She said the friendship escalated and items soon began to arrive in the mail. First, there were birthday gifts, like a NASCAR T-shirt. Later, the boy received written love notes." At this point, I started getting suspicious," the mother said. "She referred to herself as his wife." Police said she had a tattoo with the boy's name on it. Police said Alexander later left her family to drive to Oklahoma to meet the boy. The mother said she remembers the day she woke up and found his room empty. "The video game was on and the volume was up, and it sounds like he was playing video games," the woman said. "But he wasn't there. "She said her son later told her that Alexander had picked him up. According to a police report, the boy said Alexander took him to a motel. "I said, 'Did you have sex with her?' And he said yes," she said. "I asked him if he'd used protection and he said, 'What is that?' "She said she began to dig through text messages and video game chat sessions, finding messages like one that said, "My body is yours to do whatever you want with." She said she also found suggested photographs. "I saw pictures of her only in a bra," the woman said.She called police and Alexander fled, investigators said. She was arrested last week in Wichita Falls, Texas. Police said she will remain in federal custody until her trial on four counts of sexual exploitation of a child.The woman said her son has returned to school and is working with health care professionals to try to put the experience behind him.She said she spoke out in order to alert other families."If this can happen to my son, it can happen to other people's," she said.

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