Judge allows woman another chance

By Matt Pordum (contact)

Wednesday, July 7, 2004 | 8:56 a.m.

District Judge Donald Mosley allowed a former teacher's aide to remain free Tuesday after she violated the terms of her probation by having contact with the special education student she had sex with when he was 16 years old.

Mosley, who has a reputation for not giving second chances, made an exception in the case of Carolyn Ann Wilson, 42, allowing her to remain on probation instead of facing up to 32 months in prison.

Mosley said he was taking into account the fact Wilson was about to start a family with her fiance in an apparent attempt to move on with her life, but warned her that she needed to "start using your head."

"I'm not even going to insult your intelligence or the court's and say you shouldn't have contact with the victim anymore," Mosley said. "You have a fiance now -- Give it up!"

Mosley also ordered her to attend counseling in a family/children program and to perform 16 hours of community service a month.

Mosley first sentenced Wilson to probation in 2002, and one of the conditions was that she have no contact with the student or any other child under the age of 18, excluding her two teenage daughters.

The district attorney's office learned Wilson violated the terms of her probation after Wilson told her probation officer she had let her victim borrow her car, had called him to ask for help in fixing a flat tire and that he had repeatedly called her.

Wilson, a Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper delivery woman, explained she called the victim in January to help her change a tire on her car because she was "stressed" and "couldn't get in touch with anyone else."

In May, Wilson said she answered her cell phone even though she knew it was the victim. She said she only allowed the victim, who lives in her neighborhood, to borrow her car because, she alleged, he was blackmailing her.

"He (the victim) said if I didn't give it (her car) to him he would call my probation officer and tell him about the January incident," Wilson said.

Wilson's probation officer, Ken Ardizzone, said it wasn't until Wilson realized the victim wasn't going to return her vehicle that she told him about her contact with the victim.

Wilson also admitted to Mosley that the victim repeatedly called her on her cell phone, something she should have reported to her probation officer.

Wilson said she and her fiance were moving out of the neighborhood where the victim resides and she would never "contact him whatsoever, in any way, shape or form."