Deputies: Model charged with sex abuse involving teen boys
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NEHALEM, Ore. - Detectives with the Tillamook County Sheriff's Office said they have arrested a 31-year-old woman for sex crimes involving under-age boys.
Anna R. Welsh, 31, had sexual contact with at least one boy and sent and requested "pornographic images" from victims according to deputies, who also said at least three boys 15 to 16 years old were involved.
Welsh worked as a promotional model and has an entry on a modeling website, where she said she is 28 years old and from Manzanita.
Deputies said she is charged with two counts of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct, one count of sodomy and three counts of sex abuse.
Welsh's father-in-law told KATU News on Friday that this has been an incredibly sad time for the family, including Welsh's three young children.
Neighbors said Welsh is an active member of the community.
Welsh is on the board of directors of New Discoveries Preschool, according to the Headlight Herald news website. An employee there said she resigned on Monday, just a few days before her arrest.
Neighbors said she also operates the IGA grocery store in Manzanita with her family.
"I felt personally hurt, like it was my own kid," said neighbor Randy Gardner, who saw her being arrested.
KATU called Welsh's attorney and we have not yet heard back. As of Friday, she was being held in the Tillamook County Jail on $100,000 bail.
Can someone explain why a good looking 31 year old woman wants to have sex with a young boy? I don't get it. Maybe I am naive but why would it be any good?  Can the boy keep it up longer?  Does she want to be the boss is that it?  For me sex was always better with someone who wanted to do it and was aware of what they were doing.  Â
Tillamook county sickens me with who they choose to arrest and prosecute .
a 31 year old model has sexual relations with  16 year old high school male and it is all lights and sirens, arrests and news reports...But a few months back when 2 teen girls were sexually assaulted  and taken to the hospital, Tillamook law enforcement and local DA did nothing. That sure did not make front page, and that is sad. Come on Tillamook consider how use the word "victim"Â
I once had a great looking teacher. One dark night I was walking home in the rain and she stopped and asked me if I needed a ride. I got into her car and she commented on how wet my clothes were and told me she lived just down the street. We went into her house and she told me to get out of my wet things. I undressed and when I turned around she was standing there watching me. She quickly took off her clothes and we sunk to the floor.
The difference between my story and Anna's is that I was in college and over 18!
At 16 my dick was in charge too
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Haha! "Abused" ???? Yeah, right. They might have abused her vagina with their penises. 15 and 16?
I guess I would have said "Woah, that's not right" had the kids been like 3 or 4.... but 15 and 16.
Sheeeeeit. I promise you - they were LOVING it.
Oral sex is sodomy. Â Almost everyone should go strait to jail.
 @WTF908 Not according to Clinton.
Um... This is not any kind of problem.
Nothing is more stupid than to charge a woman who has sex with teenage boys with "abuse". Teenage boys used to, and probably still do, BRAG if they somehow manage to have sex with Mrs. Robinson. How did this stupid law get on the books? Because it was decided by idiots who know nothing about human nature that if we ban perverted men from taking advantage of little girls, as we should and all societies do, we should also "protect" teenage boys from adult women. In fact, in some cultures,it was SOP for adult women to introduce boys into the ways of the world, or so I have heard. Excuse me, but having been a teenage boy, I know for a fact that they do not need "protection" from any femmes fatale. Sheesh!
John Rintala please try to broaden your perspective. It is true that teen boys almost universally fantasize about being sexually solicited by a beautiful adult woman,  and probably wouldn't feel at all 'abused' by having that wish come true for them - at least, not while the encounter was taking place. But consider this - any minor person involved in a sexual relationship with an adult is participating in a crime. If they tell anyone about that experience, the adult partner could be arrested, convicted and imprisoned. Minor persons do naturally, as you say, desire to talk about their romantic relationships/ sexual encounters - having to keep such experiences a secret to protect an adult partner really can be traumatizing for them. It is inherently abusive to place such a burden on any minor, male or female, when adults involve them in a sexual encounter. Â
 @John Rintala Even worse, "They" have taken it upon themselves to decide how mature an individual is based solely on their age....  I don't know about you, but I have met some kids that were pretty mature for their age and some that were seriously immature.  This is utterly stupid, at its best.  Welcome to the age of the terminally stupid.  Saying that all people are equal in terms of intelligence or maturity is like saying that all people are rocket scientists, and we all know how true that is.....Gimme a break....These and ALL cases such as this HAVE to be evaluated on a CASE-by-CASE basis.  I do agree that is is highly unlikely that teenage boys of this age felt any type of abuse whatsoever, and I am so sick of knee-jerk reactions to this type of crap it makes me ill!  Evaluate whether they were abused or not, or felt abused, not whether or not she abused them in your OPINION!  FACTS, not OPINIONS.  How was this discovered?  Why hasn't anyone even asked that?How many people did these boys tell or brag to about this stuff?  What are the specific circumstances surrounding this plethora of stupidity?  Use your brains people!
It's funny how the media never labels women who have sex with children as "predators"Â
 @archon312 Do I detect jealousy? TAGGED!
Model? WHAT DO YOU MODEL, GLOVES??!!
- Joe Pesci
Not enough going on in a small town. A mom of three young un's just has to go out and rape boys - multiple times over? For sport. Twisted perverted illegal sport?Â
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Man, oh man - disgusting. Full out. DISGUSTING. Time for "mom" to be stripped of her kids - forever. Especially if she has a young boy of her own. She is predatorily latching on to. Like Jerry Sandusky and his own kids.Â
 @englishdaisy Gimme a break. Get a clue.
nice.
Some kids just have all the luck!
 @stinger139 At 15, I would have given my left _____ to be "abused" in such a manner.
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Of course, there is something seriously wrong with an 86-year-old magazine publisher hooking up with a 26-year-old model - and vice versa. Can anyone say they both are making their choices for the "right reasons"??
Must be a hand or foot model.
Thing is, she's NOT hot. She's barely average. Too big of a nose, small breasted, and no confidence. Google her photos. At age 31, she should be in her prime as a model. No hips, no curves, no flare. She poses like a white trash trailer girl with ZERO CONFIDENCE. But don't get me wrong, I'd hit it.Â
 @BREAKING NEWS !!! Same.
Where are the typical cries of  "castration!" or "wait till Bubba gets his turn" ? When the rolls are reversed, the calls for cutting off body parts are common, why the sudden change of heart now? It's either a criminal offence or it isn't. To say that because the boys 'enjoyed' it, then it should be OK. That's like assuming that if it was proven that the victim experienced physical pleasure (easy to prove in males of course) then no crime occurred. I'm just pushing the 'equal rights' agenda. Isn't that what we are supposed to be doing today? Everyone is equal? Then equal punishment for sex crimes. Unless your the Mayor.
 @last boyscout You're slowly but surely turning into the angry old coot down the street who yells at kids to get off his lawn.
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 @HarryJuku   I shouldn't have made it so difficult for you to understand. My mistake. Those whom in the past that have suggested castration to be a suitable punishment for male offenders should logically suggest the same for anyone else proven guilty of committing the same offence. Is that clear enough for you?
 @tigress Just for the sake of argument tigress, where do you see 'anger' in my comment? I see 'fairness' and an attempt at equality, if you read between my lines.Â
 @tigress Hey, at least we can agree to disagree. And after reading your last few posts, I can understand your narrow viewpoint. Merry Christmas.
 @last boyscout Nah - I have to admit I just skim your posts because they're pretty much the same rabble, rabble, rabble stuff over and over again.
16 year old girls also enjoy sex with men in their 30s. Maybe it's time for society to wake up and admit kids aren't babies anymore, and deserve to be treated like adults.
You know....like it or not...she broke the law. What if she was a 31 year old guy screwing 16 year old girls. That somehow makes it seem worse? A different time, and she could easily be the mother of one of these kids. I just don't know the attraction some women have with very young boys. Is it empowering to her? Teaching something that she thinks she knows and they don't? Are 16 year old boys the only thing she can get??? She's a married woman with 3 young kids. "Deputies said she is charged with two counts of using a child in a display of sexually explicit conduct, one count of sodomy and three counts of sex abuse". This isn't normal and it should be dealt with. Like it or not...laws are made to be followed. If you can't do it, you pay the price.
 @fracas Gimme a freaking break.  Are you capable of thinking for yourself and using common sense?  Oh wait, it is easier to just go along with what, "They" say and not make waves, right?  Bullstuff!!!  Where do you think this country would be today if our founding generations had said or acted like that?  Keep it up and you will find out!!  When you see something that is WRONG, you need to say it and NOT accept it. PERIOD. Everyone pays the price for this type of stuff, not just her.  If you can't see that, you need help.
 @fracas Having been in high school just 10 short years ago, I can safely say that today's 16 year old, be it boy or girl, is mature enough to make their own decisions about consensual sex.  If anything, the 16-year old would be the one to take it too far...
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Oh, those, poor, poor, boys. Sex with a hot model at 16. They may never recover. My heart is torn apart thinking at the trauma they must be suffering right now. If I could trade places with them and have had this horrible fate inflicted on ME at 15 (hell, on me at 47, as long as my wife doesn't object...), I would be happy to make that sacrifice, for their sake.
 @LizardSF Uh...she is not hot...but, I guess that's the best they got at the coast.
Are these boys in THERAPY FOR LIFE now, diagnosed "SERIOUSLY MENTALLY ILL & TRAUMATIZED", and medicated with handfuls of meds over this??
I was 16 when I met my 21 year old future wife; we've been married 42 years.....my wife would have been a strung-out heroin addict, with aids, and long buried if she would have been arrested, convicted, jailed, and labeled a "CHILD MOLESTER" for life for hooking up with me.
I just asked my wife if she hides in the bushes looking for young boys to prey upon....
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She said she's never done that.
 @August100 Thats because you're not a young boy anymore
Like someone else said, we discount teens' ability to make "proper" decisions but have no problem charging them as adults if we don't like their crime.Â
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With parental permission, a 17-year-old can join the military and die for this country but cannot vote, drink, smoke. or make a conscious decision to have sex with another person.Â
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Not withstanding the "ewww" factor, why is it OK for 15-year-old to marry in one state but, if he or she consents to sex in another - it is "rape". Should it be different if a parent gives permission?Â
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@Conspirator That echos what i have said for years. Our laws are absolutely hypocritical in regards to areas like this. I am adult enough for this but not that. How ridiculous.
First I want to make it clear that I am all for Sexual Predators getting Capital Punishment but this is just stupid. I am no Lawyer and I could prove in a heart beat that those boys were more than willing and eager to participate and that there was no abuse involved. Was it wrong? Of course it was but to punish her more than the humiliation she will feel and the problems she will have with her family should be about enough. This is one of those times that Tax Dollars should not be involved.
I would say those "boys" were pretty darn lucky ....when i was in my teens, i loved older women.
She's a two-face!
There are no true Christians here.  None will adhere to the tenet set forth in the Bible to its whole.  Heathens take to war pieces of Gods law and cheerfully ignores ones just as similar.  Who will keep the Sabbath holy and true?Â
 @Benjamin Schniffle will you judge somebody because they sin differently than you do?
Some of Solomon's hundreds of wives were 12 and 13.
@hankhandsome Variety is the spice of life.
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 @HarryJuku  @Benjamin Schniffle Things that you can see happening everyday around you need no judge. This is only a simulation, one of many.