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Joelle Barozzini, 46, allegedly told people she was the 16-year-old’s girlfriend and that she had a premature ageing disease. The boy, now 24, told the court that Barozzini once had sex with him with the bedroom door open while her husband was asleep on a sofa.

FACEBOOK/CBSPITTSBURGH Joelle Barozzini, 46, allegedly had sex with the boy more than 500 times

ACTION NEWS 4 Barozzini pictured arriving in court

The abuse is alleged to have started when the boy was just 16 after she grabbed his hand and slipped it up her thigh at a party. It is claimed the abuse continued from 2009 to 2013. He told a court: “I was nervous. She kissed me. She grabbed me by the hand and pulled me into her room. “I was just really scared that somebody was going to see. “I was kind of frightened. I really didn’t know what to do.”

NC The Greenberg house where some of the alleged offences took place

As the abuse continued, Barozzini allegedly sent the boy nude selfies and gave him alcohol while telling him “we’re boyfriend and girlfriend”. The alleged victim told the court that Barozzini had sex with him more than 500 times in several rooms of her five bedroom home and in hotels when she took him away for weekends. He said: “I was honestly too nervous to say no. Every single time, just about, would be against my will. “There was times when it was not happening at all and she wanted to go back to play the mother role, as she would call it.

BING Greensberg is a small city in Pennsylvania