The wife of an active-duty Camp Pendleton Marine has been arrested on accusations that she had sex with the 15-year-old foreign exchange student she and her family had been hosting on base.

Nicole Marie Wilson, 22, was arraigned on a charge of sexual abuse of a minor on Tuesday in San Diego federal court. A plea of not guilty was entered on her behalf.

The boy reported the alleged abuse to Naval Criminal Investigative Service on Sept. 30, according to an affidavit filed with the federal complaint.

The teen said that 10 days earlier, he had returned home from a high school football game, and Wilson accosted him while he watched television on the couch, according to the affidavit.


He said that she first asked “Yes or no?” as she performed a sex act on him, and he said “OK.” And then she asked again before she had sex with him and he said “no,” but she continued anyway, the affidavit states.

She reportedly stopped when she heard her infant cry in another room.

When Wilson was interviewed by NCIS, she told investigators that she had been drinking and “blacked out” while watching TV with the teen. Her baby’s cry snapped her out of it, she said, according to the court record.

WhatsApp messages obtained by investigators show Wilson apologizing to the student for the encounter but also asking if he enjoyed it, according to court records. The teen several times asked her to forget about what happened and that he didn’t want her husband to know or for it to affect his time in the exchange program.


A federal prosecutor on Tuesday asked that Wilson be detained without bond, calling her a “serious risk of flight and danger to the community.” A detention hearing has been set for Thursday.

No further information was released about the exchange program, what country the teen was visiting from or if Wilson had previously hosted any other students.