US woman Ashleigh Watts charged with sexual abuse of twin boys

A woman has been charged after police caught her naked with a missing 15-year-old boy – whose twin brother she is also accused of abusing.

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A US woman has been charged with indecency after police caught her naked with a missing 15-year-old boy – whose twin brother she is also accused of abusing.

Ashleigh Watts was initially caught when cops came to her Virginia home in July looking for the teenager, the New York Post reports.

The 37-year-old asked them to wait outside while she put on a bra and let her dogs out.

“Officers advised several minutes later that Ms Watts returned to the door with her two dogs still in the residence, allowing them to enter,” court records obtained by website Law & Crime state.

“As officers removed the mattress in an upstairs bedroom, they were able to see a white male juvenile hiding in a small space that was only wearing boxer briefs.

“When asked by officers if he was [the runaway boy], he advised he was and presented his Learner’s Permit.”

At the time, Ms Watts was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, but her crimes have since been updated to include three counts of indecency with a minor for the “relationships” she is accused of harbouring with the teenagers.

Ashleigh Watts was arrested for allegedly sexually abusing twin brothers that lived across the street from her and her family. Picture: Chesapeake Police

The twins lived across the street and were friends with Ms Watts’ son, who was around the same age, according to court documents.

Watts allegedly began preying on the brothers over a year before she was caught.

Police began investigating the mother of two when an anonymous tipster reported an alleged sexual “relationship” with the boys in February.

That same month, Ms Watts’ husband came home around 2am to find his wife topless on their couch alongside one of the teenage boys, who was “pretending to be asleep”, he would later admit to investigators.

Watts’ husband reportedly found Watts topless on the couch of their home with one of the teen boys. Picture: Facebook

When questioned by his parents, the boy reportedly said that he had gone to Ms Watts’ home to smoke marijuana and fell asleep on the couch.

The two families were “very close friends” and had an open-door policy between their homes, which lay across the street from one another.

The boys’ parents told officers that the brothers were frequently at the Watts family’s home for what they assumed was to spend time with their son.

Behind closed doors, however, Ms Watts was allegedly sexually and emotionally manipulating the teenagers, with one of the boys confiding the abuse to another neighbour.

The boys were over the Watts home frequently and were similar in age to Watts’ son. Picture: Facebook

“[The neighbour] told him that [redacted] confided in her that he has been having sex with Ms Watts since June 2022,” police wrote in a probable cause affidavit.

“[Redacted] told her that he and Ms Watts were in love and when he turned seventeen (17) years old, she was going to divorce her husband and they were going to get married.”

Authorities said that after the alleged 13-month-long relationship was exposed, the teen ran away from home and was found hiding in Ms Watts’ bedroom three weeks later on July 26, WAVY reported.

Watts asked police to wait outside while she put a bra on before they found one of the boys hiding in her home. Picture: Facebook

Watts was charged last week with three counts of indecency with a minor. Picture: Facebook

His brother confessed to investigators that Ms Watts would invite him over to smoke weed and give him pairs of her underwear.

He also claimed she would touch him inappropriately, despite his pleas for her to stop.

The teenagers’ parents and Ms Watts’ husband have filed protective orders against her.

The documents filed by her jilted spouse describe large amounts of cash, marijuana and a prepaid cell phone that were reportedly found after her arrest.

Ms Watts now faces up to 30 years in prison if convicted.

This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was reproduced with permission