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Woman Accused Of Sex With 15-Year-Old Boy

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By VALERIE KALFRIN

The Tampa Tribune

Published: September 6, 2008

TAMPA - A 24-year-old Tampa woman is accused of having a sexual relationship with a 15-year-old boy, an affidavit states.

The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said deputies arrested Marbelis Margarita Dorado, 24, at Mort Park in Lutz about 9:30 p.m. Thursday. An affidavit states that she encouraged four juveniles to smoke marijuana in her vehicle.

The sheriff's office said that a deputy had approached a 2004 Dodge Caravan at the park because the park closes at sundown. The deputy found Dorado and four youths - a 14-year-old girl and three boys, two of them 15 and one 14 - in the Dodge.

The deputy smelled marijuana and found a plastic baggie of it in the vehicle, the sheriff's office said. Dorado knows the youths from her neighborhood and told deputies she provided the marijuana and encouraged the youngsters to smoke it, the sheriff's office said.

The youths were released to their parents. Deputies took Dorado to a district office, where during an interview deputies learned that on Aug. 30 she had been accused by a mother of lewd and lascivious behavior with the woman's 15-year-old son.

Deputies summoned detectives, who questioned Dorado further and arrested her at 12:24 a.m. Friday on five counts of felony lewd and lascivious battery.

According to an affidavit, Dorado and the 15-year-old boy, whom she knows from the neighborhood, told deputies there had been a sexual relationship since July. They had sex in Dorado's car, her apartment and a friend's apartment, the affidavit states.

Dorado was taken to Orient Road Jail, and bail was set at $48,000. She also is charged with felony child abuse, misdemeanor contributing to the delinquency of a minor and misdemeanor possession of marijuana.

Reporter Valerie Kalfrin can be reached at (813) 259-7800 or vkalfrin@tampatrib.com.

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