Tulare mom to be tried on charges of sex with daughters’ boyfriends
A 41-year-old Tulare mother will go to trial on charges that she had sex with two underage boys, described as boyfriends of her daughters.
Coral Lytle had planned to plead no contest in return for a sentence that included one year in county jail, but the new judge in the case declined on Monday to honor the deal made with a previous judge, the Fresno Bee reported.
The woman is charged with 21 counts related to the sexual abuse of two boys. She would face 17 years in prison if found guilty on all counts.
The boys were freshmen at Visalia’s Redwood High School and were 14 and 15 years old when the alleged abuse took place during one week in the fall of 2017. Court records indicate Lytle met with the boys, separately, for sexual contact five times in that week.
In one of the meetings, Lytle reportedly helped a boy sneak out of his home at night and returned him at 5 a.m. before his parents awoke, the Bee said. She is also accused of sending them nude photos of herself.
Just days after her arrest in October 2017, her husband filed for divorce. The couple had four children together.
Six months before the arrest, Coral Lytle — then the treasurer of the athletics booster club for Central Valley Christian Schools — had agreed to repay $63,000 that had gone missing from the club’s account, court documents said. No charges were filed in that case.
Lytle reportedly said she had been suffering from low self-esteem and was troubled by the death of her sister, according to court documents cited by the Bee.