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A mum who had sex with a schoolboy during a camping trip was caught out when they had to be rescued by the emergency services.

Rhiannon Elisabeth Scott, 24, was in a tent with a boy, 15, when it was washed away after a river burst its banks.

Paramedics, firefighters and the Wales Air Ambulance were deployed to bring the pair back to safety, where it emerged that the boy was underage.

Mold Crown Court heard that they were trapped for five hours and were washed down the river at one stage. The alarm was raised when their cries were heard by a local farmer.

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His family believed that he had a girlfriend aged 16 or 17 while Scott’s family had no idea she was with an underage boy.

The couple met over the internet during role play games where Scott groomed the boy.

Today she was jailed for two years and ordered to register with the police as a sex offender for 10 years.

Judge Rhys Rowlands also made a 10-year sexual harm prevention order to curb her future activities, including the use of the internet.

Scott, of Fourth Avenue at Gwersyllt near Wrexham, admitted two charges of meeting a boy aged 14 and 15 intended a sexual offence following grooming.

She admitted four charges of sexual activity with a child, the boy when he was 15, which included intercourse.

Scott admitted causing a child to look at an image of a person engaged in a sexual act, and possessing an indecent photo of a child aged 15 after the court heard how they had exchanged sexual photographs of themselves.

Miss Pope said the boy had not co-operated with the police and the case against her came from her own admissions.

The boy had been a regular user of Facebook since the age of 12 and he began to become involved with role play games.

Scott adopted the role of a barmaid and others including the boy adopted different roles and Miss Pope said that as time went on the group became sexualised.

They spoke at length, and communicating by Facebook messenger away from the role playing group.

She asked him to be her boyfriend although they had never met in person.

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They sent sexual photographs of themselves to each other.

Miss Pope said that they also said what they wanted to do to each other sexually.

They started meeting, he visited her and they went camping together.

They pitched close to a river and when the water level suddenly rose they had to be rescued and it was then that the two families realised what was going on.

Her sister also found photographs of the boy on her Facebook account.

Arrested and interviewed, Scott initially said she thought he was in his 20s.

She claimed to have found out his real age later and that they agreed not to meet until he was 16, but Miss Pope said that was not accepted by the prosecution.

They had indulged in sex acts and had sex during the camping trip.

Her barrister Andrew Green said that the defendant herself was a vulnerable young woman.

She had a complex mental health history.

A psychiatric report had been prepared and he also handed in references which he said showed the other side of her.

Her children were currently being cared for by the defendant’s mother, said Mr Green.