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"Cool Mom" Gets Thirty Years
GOLDEN - An Arvada mother tearfully apologized Monday and was sentenced to 30 years in prison for hosting sex-and-alcohol parties for teenagers.
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Watch the taped police interview with Sylvia Johnson. 9News Reporter Chris Vanderveen says Silvia Johnson was given a 30-year prison sentence for her crimes. 5 p.m. November 14, 2005. Sylvia Johnson apologizes at the sentencing. Nov. 14, 2005.
Silvia Johnson, 41, pleaded guilty earlier this year to two counts of sexual assault, and nine counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Prosecutors said between 2003 and 2004, Johnson held 15 to 20 parties at her home and gave teens alcohol, marijuana and methamphetamines. She also confessed to having sex with two of the teenage boys.
Parents of the boys that Johnson assaulted were in court to testify Monday. The prosecution described her as perverse and a manipulator.
But a defense expert pointed to Johnson's history of mental problems and said that she is bi-polar.
District Court Judge Peter Weir said while sympathizing with her mental illness, it still didn't excuse what she did. He said giving teens meth was "unconscionable" and he called some of her other behavior "selfish."
Johnson cried through much of the proceedings and also offered an apology. "I'm very sorry for what I've done," she said to the court. "You know it was a year ago that some of that arrogance and nonsense did exist, but it doesn't anymore.
"I've learned my lessons. I know I've hurt so many people. Not just the boys, but my own family. I've let down myself, my community, just everybody, and I know that I have a serious mental illness."
Johnson was to have been sentenced September 26th, but that hearing had to be postponed after a serious traffic accident a day earlier. She and three children were hurt when the SUV they were riding in rolled down an embankment along Interstate 25.
A 14-year-old girl was behind the wheel, and one of the other children inside was Johnson's son.
Johnson was hospitalized after the crash. Once released, she was returned to the Jefferson County Detention Facility. She faces additional charges in connection with the SUV crash.
In a taped police interview, Johnson admitted inviting underage students to her home for the parties because she wanted her daughter's friends to think of her as a "the cool mom."
In the interview released to the media, Johnson says, "I fell in love with being a part of the group in a way.
"Because that was never something (inaudible), never something I was a part of growing up. I was never in the popular group."
Johnson also said in that interview that she resented what she described as a double standard for men and women. "I think what I always had a hard time with is guys who do it are considered studs," she said. "A girl does it, she's considered a slut."
Additional Resources...
Woman known as "Cool Mom" back in jail
"Cool Mom" leaving hospital, bail set at $550,000
Woman who wanted to be "cool mom" pleads guilty to sex assault
Watch the taped police interview with Sylvia Johnson. 9News Reporter Chris Vanderveen says Silvia Johnson was given a 30-year prison sentence for her crimes. 5 p.m. November 14, 2005. Sylvia Johnson apologizes at the sentencing. Nov. 14, 2005.
Silvia Johnson, 41, pleaded guilty earlier this year to two counts of sexual assault, and nine counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor.
Prosecutors said between 2003 and 2004, Johnson held 15 to 20 parties at her home and gave teens alcohol, marijuana and methamphetamines. She also confessed to having sex with two of the teenage boys.
Parents of the boys that Johnson assaulted were in court to testify Monday. The prosecution described her as perverse and a manipulator.
But a defense expert pointed to Johnson's history of mental problems and said that she is bi-polar.
District Court Judge Peter Weir said while sympathizing with her mental illness, it still didn't excuse what she did. He said giving teens meth was "unconscionable" and he called some of her other behavior "selfish."
Johnson cried through much of the proceedings and also offered an apology. "I'm very sorry for what I've done," she said to the court. "You know it was a year ago that some of that arrogance and nonsense did exist, but it doesn't anymore.
"I've learned my lessons. I know I've hurt so many people. Not just the boys, but my own family. I've let down myself, my community, just everybody, and I know that I have a serious mental illness."
Johnson was to have been sentenced September 26th, but that hearing had to be postponed after a serious traffic accident a day earlier. She and three children were hurt when the SUV they were riding in rolled down an embankment along Interstate 25.
A 14-year-old girl was behind the wheel, and one of the other children inside was Johnson's son.
Johnson was hospitalized after the crash. Once released, she was returned to the Jefferson County Detention Facility. She faces additional charges in connection with the SUV crash.
In a taped police interview, Johnson admitted inviting underage students to her home for the parties because she wanted her daughter's friends to think of her as a "the cool mom."
In the interview released to the media, Johnson says, "I fell in love with being a part of the group in a way.
"Because that was never something (inaudible), never something I was a part of growing up. I was never in the popular group."
Johnson also said in that interview that she resented what she described as a double standard for men and women. "I think what I always had a hard time with is guys who do it are considered studs," she said. "A girl does it, she's considered a slut."
THIRTY YEARS!?
Did I miss the part where she cut up a couple of the kids and hid them under the porch?
Dying in prison seems just a little harsh...
is quite harsh.
Stiffler's mom!
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