• Those whose judgment and ability to consent are altered by temporary or permanent mental illness or "unsoundness of mind."
• Those under the supervision or legal custody of a state agency, county, municipality, or political subdivision who engage in sexual activity with an employee or contractor of the authority. 

For former Oklahoma teacher Shelly Fry, her sexual relationship with an 18-year-old student would not have been a crime had she not been a teacher.  Because Shelly Fry was a teacher, however, her relationship with the student--despite his age--resulted in an Oklahoma statutory rape charge.

Allegedly, Fry, a special education teacher, had consensual sex with the teenaged student in her home in September 2009.  When her husband discovered inappropriate text messages between Fry and the student, he confronted the student via telephone about the relationship.  The student told authorities that he ended the relationship after the confrontation.  Shortly thereafter, in October, Shelly Fry resigned from her postion at Hominy High School.  School officials report that Fry's resignation came before they had a chance to question her about the allegations.

Even though the teenager admits that his relationship with Fry was consensual, and even though he was legally of age to consent, Shelly Fry is charged with second degree rape in Oklahoma because the young man was her student at the time of the alleged affair.   

Shelly Fry turned herself in to authorities last week on a probable cause affidavit alleging second degree rape.  She was released on $10,000 bond.  Her next court date is August 27.

According to her plea, Alexander drove to Oklahoma to engage in sex with the teenager in January 2009.  On the morning of January 9, the boy's mother discovered he was missing and sent him a text message to return home immediately.  The boy returned with Alexander, who told the mother that she was there to discuss the boy's marriage to her daughter, who was only 9 years old at the time.  The teen's mother told Alexander to leave and refrain from further contact with her son.  However, Alexander returned two days later, and a warrant for her arrest was issued for stalking.

The boy admitted to his mother that he and Alexander had a sexual relationship, and that Alexander wanted to marry him.  According to the boy's mother, the teen threatened to kill himself as a result of the relationship.  In addition to the boy's admission, his mother found suggestive text messages on his cell phone, in which Alexander referred to herself as the teenager's "wife," even though Annamay Alexander is a married mother of three.  Alexander was accused of distributing obscene material online after  teen's mother also found a photograph of Alexander wearing only underwear stored on the boy's Playstation console.

As a result of Annamay Alexander's obsession with the Oklahoma City boy, she was charged with one count of sending obscene materials, two counts of enticing a child under 16 to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing photographs,  and one count of traveling across state lines for the purpose of engaging in illicit sexual conduct.

As a result of her conviction, Annamay Alexander faces up to 30 years in prison and will be required to register as an Oklahoma sex offender.

First arrested was Muskogee High School assistant wrestling coach Donaco Watts, 28.  Watts's arrest came after a 15-year-old girl reported to campus police in April that the coach showed her obscene material on his cell phone and invited her to go with him to a secluded area to engage in "some fun adult time."  Watts faces two counts of Oklahoma lewd molestation for showing the pornographic material and making sexual advances toward the girl.

In the second incident, a longtime music teacher was arrested after a 13-year-old boy alleged that Michael George Dunn, 43, forced him to look at pornographic material on his home computer and that he talked to the boy about homosexuality in a lewd manner.  Dunn has taught vocal music and piano lessons for over 20 years, but so far in the investigation, his accuser is the only complainant.  Police estimate that Dunn currently has 40 students, and they encourage concerned parents to contact them.

The final incident occurred when Michael Merrifield, 61, was accused of making sexual comments to a 14-year-old boy at a park, following him into a public restroom, and trying to pull his pants down.  The victim gave police a partial license plate number and a description matching Merrifield.  The accused man admitted to being in the park but denied all allegations against him.  He is being held in jail in lieu of $150,000 bail, and he is charged with one count of lewd molestation and one count of lewd or indecent acts to a child under 16.

In Oklahoma, lewd molestation and lewd acts with a minor are felonies.  If convicted, the three men each face sentences of three to twenty years in prison and lifetime sex offender registry.  Allegations of child sexual abuse are among the most difficult charges an accused person can face.  An experienced attorney with a successful record of Oklahoma sex crime defense will help protect the rights of the accused through all stages of the judicial process.

Earls is making headlines again as his Oklahoma defense lawyer argued that facing trial for additional charges against the victim and her brother would amount to double jeopardy.

Protection from "double jeopardy" is a constitutional right that protects citizens from being tried twice for the same crime.  Under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, "[no person shall] be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb."  This law essentially protects citizens from being tried for the same crime following an acquittal, being retried after a conviction, and facing multiple punishments for the same crime.

While Earls's Oklahoma sex crime defense attorney argued that a new trial would subject his client to double jeopardy after his initial conviction, a judge agreed with the state attorney general's office that, although the victims were the same in both cases, the accusations and charges are different from those in the original conviction.  The judge ruled that there is no evidence that prosecutors and the defense agreed that all crimes and acts committed by David Harold Earls were settled by the original plea agreement.  The decision clears the way for a hearing today after Earls's grand jury indictment on three new counts of  indecent and lewd acts with a child younger than 16.

Earls was originally convicted of forcible oral sodomy and first degree rape in Oklahoma in 2009.

Last week, a 73-year-old Oklahoma man was charged with solicitation of a minor and a number of other offenses after he allegedly pulled a 14-year-old girl into his vehicle and offered to pay her for sex.  The probable cause affidavit for Duane Nelson's arrest reports that he stopped his vehicle to ask the girl for directions.  When she approached his vehicle, Nelson allegedly grabbed her by the wrist and pulled her into the truck, drove her to a city park, and offered to pay her $100 for sex.  The girl says she told Nelson that her boyfriend was supposed to meet her at the park, and he let her go.  She hid nearby before calling police.

Under the supervision of police, the girl called Nelson the next day and offered to meet him at a local high school.  Nelson said that he would provide alcohol for the girl at their meeting.

When he arrived at the designated time and location, Nelson was arrested with a loaded firearm in his pocket.  He has been charged with numerous crimes, including kidnapping, indecent proposals to a minor for sex, solicitation, possession of a firearm during the commission of a crime and attempting to provide a minor an intoxicating beverage.

Most recently, an ex-custodian at an Oklahoma high school confessed to authorities that he sexually abused a 16-year-old student on school grounds over the course of the past six months.  After the allegations, Jay High School custodian Adam Wolfe was suspended from his job and later resigned.

According to an affidavit for Wolfe's arrest, he initially befriended the alleged victim by giving her candy and soft drinks.  Wolfe is accused of raping and sexually abusing the student in the custodial office, an art classroom, and a computer classroom beginning in December 2009 and continuing throughout the school year.

The affidavit states that Wolfe told authorities that he was "unable to resist" the student, and that she objected to each of his sexual encounters with her over the six month period.  He says that he did occasionally stop the sexual contact because he felt guilty when his accuser said he was hurting her.

Wolfe is charged with a number of crimes in the sexual abuse of the student, including with four counts of second-degree rape, three counts of second-degree rape by instrumentation, three counts of forcible oral sodomy and three counts of sexual battery.  Those accused of Oklahoma sex crimes need the expertise of an Oklahoma rape defense attorney to ensure their right to a fair trial.

Rowland was charged with sexual battery following an incident in December of 2007, in which he grabbed the chest of a male co-worker.  The prosecution argued that Rowland took sexual pleasure from the action and that he was on "an erotic power trip."  According to Rowland's Oklahoma City defense lawyer, however, Rowland's actions were merely "horseplay" and not sexual in nature.

Jurors agreed with the defense that there was no evidence that the incident was meant to arouse either Rowland or his accuser; if the action was not sexual in nature, then no sexual battery occurred.   Jurors failed to find evidence that the married Rowland had sexual interest in his male co-worker.  Additionally, they considered a series of racy emails sent to Rowland from his accuser before and after the incident.  The emails included a montage of film scenes showing topless women.

While jurors found Rowland not guilty of sexual battery, prosecuting attorneys say the judge refused to allow them to consider finding Rowland guilty of misdemeanor assault.

In fact, after the acquittal, one juror claimed that the case was a waste of the taxpayers' money, contrasting the "horseplay" in the Rowland case with serious cases of sexual harassment or sexual battery in the workplace.  "It wasn't worth it," she said of the trial.

Rowland still faces Oklahoma rape charges.  He is accused of raping a female employee at a Tulsa hotel in 2006.  His Oklahoma rape defense attorney asserts that the charge is equally unsupported by evidence as the sexual battery charge, and that it is politically motivated.  His trial is scheduled to begin in late November.

Police arrived at an Oklahoma City truck stop when a truck driver called 911 to report that a 16-year-old girl knocked on the window of his truck to ask him if he wanted "company."  When officers stopped the vehicle to which the girl returned after the truck driver refused her offer, they found a man and woman in the car with six children, aged 9 to 17.  The woman, a transient, claimed to be the mother of four of the children and the aunt to two others.  Police said it was not immediately clear if all of the children were being used as prostitutes.  The children were taken into state custody, and the adults were booked into the Oklahoma County jail.

The Oklahoma City case is only the latest instance of child prostitution in the news.  Earlier this month, a man in a neighboring state was sentenced in federal court to 10 years without parole for attempted commercial sex trafficking of a child.  His case opened an undercover investigation into child prostitution, which netted seven defendants in the federal child prostitution case.  The U.S. attorney's office reported that officials placed Internet ads for underage prostitutes, and when the defendants showed up to the undercover location and paid cash for a child prostitute, they were arrested.

In Oklahoma, lewd acts with a minor, statutory rape, and internet sex crimes including solicitation of a minor, are all very serious offenses.  An Oklahoma sex crime attorney understands the consequences of conviction, including  hefty prison sentences and lifetime sex offender registration.  Those charged with these crimes need the immediate help of an experienced Oklahoma City criminal defense lawyer to challenge the charges.