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That was greeted as good news in the State Attorney’s Office in Indian River County.

“We’ve been actively pursuing her but of course we were dead-ended by the Canadian government who granted her refugee status,” said Nikki Robinson, assistant state attorney who was a prosecutor of the original case.

A jury heard in 2008 that Ms. Harvey met the victim at her son’s baseball practices and began flirting with him and he reciprocated.

“It went from there,” said Ms. Robinson.

Five times the two had sex, in the victim’s father’s house and after hours in her office, where she worked as a mortgage broker. His sister once walked in on them.

The jury also heard conversations with the victim after Ms. Harvey’s arrest in which she encourage him to lie to police and to try to blackmail his sister into not cooperating with the investigation, Ms. Robinson said.

In Florida, it is against the law for someone over the age of 24 to have sex with someone under the age of 18. In Canada, the age of consent is 16 unless the older person is in a position of authority over the younger person.

“She clearly acknowledged on all of these controlled phone calls that what she was doing was wrong,” Ms. Robinson said. “She knew what the law was and we’re all bound by the law.”

After the jury’s guilty verdict, Ms. Harvey was sentenced to 30 years in prison for the five convictions.

Her appeal of the verdict was denied and her sentence affirmed in February 2011. Ms. Harvey, however, did not turn herself in. When authorities went looking, they found she had fled her Vero Beach home months earlier.