Feb 09, 2006 06:22
Don't lock up my 'old' lady
Sex-flap boy wants his 45-year-old shrink freed
BY BRIAN HARMON
DAILY NEWS LONG ISLAND BUREAU CHIEF
A teenager whose scandalous May-December affair has landed a Hamptons school psychologist in jail said he doesn't want the 45-year-old seductress to face charges.
"She really didn't do anything to hurt anybody," said the 17-year-old victim, whose name is being withheld because police regard him as a rape victim.
"I wasn't like against it or anything. It just kind of happened," the teen told the Daily News in a telephone interview from his new home in Jacksonville, N.C.
Diane DeMartini-Scully, 45, the school shrink at East Hampton Middle School, is charged with third-degree rape for two alleged sexual encounters she had with the teen, her former neighbor in Mattituck, L.I., last May.
The boy was 16 at the time, and in New York a 16-year-old cannot legally consent to sex with an adult.
The boy's mother told The News that she has learned that DeMartini-Scully also allegedly encouraged the boy to have sex with her 13-year-old daughter - the boy's girlfriend - and that the psychologist supplied the young couple with condoms.
The mother wants DeMartini-Scully prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
"I think it's disgusting that she took the vulnerability of a 16-year-old and used it for her own sick sexual desires," said the 36-year-old mom. "A woman in her position should not be having any sort of feelings toward somebody who is 16."
The teen said he was unsure how many times he and DeMartini-Scully had sex. But he remembered the first time.
"She would be like, 'You want to lay down in my bed and watch TV?'" said the boy.
"That's how it happened the first time. ... We pretty much did everything. I was like 'Dang, what the hell am I doing?'"
The psychologist, due back in Suffolk County Justice Court in Southold tomorrow, had hinted to the boy that she and her husband had marital problems, he said.
In October, DeMartini-Scully was nabbed in Onslow County, N.C., on charges that she paid a secret visit to the teen's new home and kidnapped the boy and his younger sister, giving them alcohol and marijuana.
She was arrested in Suffolk last Saturday, accused of having sex with the boy when his family still lived there.
DeMartini-Scully's attorney, John Strode, did not return calls for comment.
Originally published on February 9, 2006