35-year-old Alexis Von Yates was arrested in November 2024 over an incident from July that very same yr, after her husband allegedly walked in on her having intercourse along with his then-15-year-old son, her stepson. Yates reportedly pled not responsible to a cost of sexual battery on an individual 12 to 18 years of age again in December.

Per an order signed by Fifth Judicial Circuit Court docket Decide Timothy T. McCourt on Could 30, 2025 — through Regulation & Crime — the teenager’s interview with an agent from Protected Shorts, described as a “baby safety team-like entity,” will likely be allowed as proof throughout Yates’ trial. The choice comes after a listening to to determine whether or not the assertion was “dependable and reliable.”

Explaining their choice, the court docket stated the sufferer “seemed to be a very clever and mature younger man,” who “additionally seemed to be considerably worldly and acquainted with grownup issues,” citing how he described utilizing a THC vape earlier than allegedly having intercourse with Yates and smoking marijuana “just about daily” whereas staying along with his father and stepmother. The court docket stated it does not imagine his marijuana use “impacted his capability to recall the occasions that occurred in a fabric means,” calling his recollection of what allegedly occurred as “extremely detailed.”

Describing the teenager’s emotional state, they stated that “whereas he was not displaying feelings like disappointment, the kid appeared however expressed a mixture of feelings in keeping with the advanced scenario during which he then discovered himself.” Per the docs, the teenager referred to the scenario as being “f–ked up,” stated he was “lovestruck” and “infatuated” with Yates — whereas saying his father wished to “disown” him over what had allegedly occurred and expressing his “anger” for his dad allegedly wanting “to cowl it up.”

The court docket stated a lot of the teenager’s assertion was in response to “applicable, open-ended, and non-leading” questions, saying his feedback got here “extemporaneously and with out prompting,” which they imagine “weighs in favor of the statements reliability.”

The docs go on to say the teenager’s assertion “did comprise sure descriptions that gave the assertion the ‘ring of fact,’” citing how he stated he advised Yates what they have been allegedly doing was “so dangerous,” and his particular description of sure intercourse acts. This, per the court docket, is an indication he wasn’t utilizing “child-like descriptions” of what allegedly occurred.

Additionally they discovered no motivation for him to make up his story, stated he was “clearly competent to testify” and is ready to inform the distinction between actuality and fantasy. The court docket believed his assertion wasn’t imprecise, writing that, “at one level that he felt he could have been being too detailed and that he didn’t wish to make the interviewer uncomfortable.”

The court docket wrote that they discovered no proof of “improper affect” or “teaching” behind the teenager’s assertion, earlier than saying he additionally “didn’t shrink back from making statements that may solid himself in a unfavorable gentle,” together with using marijuana the night time of and earlier than the incident in query. That, they wrote, “bolsters the general reliability of his assertion and its contents.”

In accordance with Yates’ arrest affidavit, additionally through Regulation&Crime, authorities spoke with the teenager at a baby advocacy middle in August 2024, after allegedly receiving an nameless tip claiming “the kid sufferer’s father had walked-in on the incident.”

In an interview detailed within the docs, he stated the alleged incident occurred a month prior, whereas the teenage sufferer was visiting his father for the summer time in Florida.

He claimed that whereas his father was working late, he and his stepmother shared a THC vape and started taking part in video video games collectively round 11pm, earlier than watching “Terrifier 2.” When he indicated he was bored, he stated the 2 then started talking about “how ‘sexy’ the suspect was.” The teenager stated he started taking part in along with her hair, then requested if she wished to “cuddle” — this after he claimed she had been making “sexual jokes” and had been “constantly saying how ‘sexy’ she was” within the weeks main as much as the night time in query.

One of many jokes he talked about was her allegedly saying “I guess everybody thought you have been my little boy toy” after they went to the fitness center collectively. He stated she additionally made a joke about him watching “step-mom pornos.”

After he laid on high of her, he stated she “started to moan” and commented, “Ah man, I want you have been 18, since you’re not sufficiently old” as issues continued to escalate. He additionally claimed that as he carried out oral intercourse on her, she stated, “That is so dangerous,” earlier than they started having penetrative intercourse.

“They heard one thing within the storage however then saved going. Out of the blue, the door started to unlock. The entrance door is instantly in entrance of the sofa. The kid sufferer recalled operating to the lavatory along with his pants round his ankles as his father entered the house, seeing his spouse with no bra on and a blanket overlaying the decrease half of her physique,” reads the affidavit.

“The kid sufferer’s father noticed the kid sufferer operating to the lavatory and yelled, ‘What the f–k is happening?’ as he threw issues,” learn the docs.

The teenager stated he then overheard her father yelling on the suspect, claiming she advised his father “she was sorry, saying the kid sufferer seems like his father when he was youthful.”

After he was taken to his grandfather’s residence by his dad, the teenager stated he known as the suspect the next morning. Of their name, he claimed she advised him she wished “his father had not of caught them,” earlier than additionally allegedly saying his penis “appeared like his father’s penis with youthful pores and skin” and giving him “a sexual ranking of seven out of ten.”

She was arrested in November; her legal professional entered a not responsible plea on her behalf in December.

If you’re experiencing or witness baby abuse, name the Childhelp Nationwide Youngster Abuse Hotline at 1-800-4-A-Youngster or 1-800-422-4453, or go to www.childhelp.org. If you happen to imagine a baby is in rapid hazard, name 911.