ANN ARBOR, MI - A 38-year-old Lima Township mother is headed to prison for having sex with two teenage boys last summer.

Brooke Lajiness was sentenced to four years and nine months to 15 years in prison on several counts of criminal sexual conduct in Washtenaw County Trial Court on Monday, August 7.

Lajiness trembled and verged on tears while reading a written statement to Judge David Swartz prior to sentencing.

"This has been the biggest regret of my life," she said. "My family means everything to me, and I've caused them great pain for these regretful choices I have made."

The boys were 14 and 15 last summer when Lajiness lured them in with naked pictures of herself on Snapchat. The 38-year-old began showing up at their parents' houses for late-night sexual trysts in her car, according to investigators.

The mother of the then-14-year-old victim addressed the bold meetings in the impact statement she wrote for the court, which was read aloud by a victim advocate.

"You made a conscious effort on several occasions to make arrangements to meet my son," the mother wrote, "sneak out of your house, start your car, leave your husband and children at home and drive to my son's father's house, back into the driveway between midnight and 4 a.m., wait for my son to run the driveway, commit a crime and leave. Did you know that this was wrong? Did you ever worry about the harm you were doing to my son?"

The woman said her son has suffered significant psychological and emotional damage and is in therapy.

"Your actions will affect my son and his relationships with others for the rest of his life," she said.

The mother said the scandal has rocked small-town Chelsea.

"The guys at school pick on him and say it's cool that he had sex with a mom," the mother wrote. "My son shared with me that the guys at school have no idea what he's been going through and how he struggles. He has had to stay strong in front of them."

The woman asked that Lajiness be treated just like men who sexually assault girls, something Lajiness' attorney, Ypsilanti-based David I. Goldstein, disputed.

"To say this should be treated exactly the same if she were a man dealing with young girls is not true," he said. "I think society recognizes that men and women deal with sex and sexuality much differently, both as adults and as children. I think the court will be able to discern that difference in passing sentence."

Assistant Washtenaw County Prosecutor John Vella asked Swartz to sentence Lajiness to the stiffest possible term - 98 months to 15 years - saying she was clearly preying on the teens.

Vella said Lajiness sent the teenage boys Snapchat pictures of herself in the bathtub and performing sexual acts before she started meeting up with them for sex.

He described Lajiness' first interview with Michigan State Police detectives:

"She explained that sex with the victim is not something she wanted to do, but she was helping him," Vella said. "When asked to explain how she was helping him, the defendant had a hard time explaining, but stated she was helping him, 'release his whatever.' This is an incident that this is clearly a predator."

While Lajiness was charged for sex with two teen boys, Vella said the 38-year-old year was cheating with yet a third unidentified male, who may have been an adult, but was also engaged on Snapchat.

Vella said the defendant and her husband, who appeared in the courtroom Monday, both wrote letters to the judge shifting the blame to the victims. Lajiness' husband wrote a letter blaming the sexual assaults on his wife's insomnia. Goldstein later clarified that Lajiness' insomnia medication may have played a role.

"It was this defendant's actions that brought her here," Vella said.

Goldstein said Lajiness was aware her behavior was wrong, but pointed out that a mental health doctor said the woman wasn't a predator, and that with the right kind of therapy, would likely never commit a similar crime again.

The judge agreed the behavior was inappropriate, but decided to sentence Lajiness at the low end of the state guidelines, in part because of her mental health issues and because she doesn't have a criminal past.

"There are significant psychological issues that are extant that obviously contributed to and caused the behavior in this case," he said.

Lajiness, a mother of two, was immediately taken into custody following the hearing.

Lajiness pleaded guilty in June to third-degree criminal sexual conduct for oral sex with the 15-year-old, two counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct for intercourse with the 14-year-old, one count of accosting a child for immoral purposes and one count of furnishing obscenity to children for sending nude photographs of herself to a minor.

As part of a plea agreement, 10 other counts of third-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person between 13 and 15 years old were dismissed.