the incident when he quizzed her about it, but his son confessed that they had sex three times.

The man called the police and the woman admitted during a video recorded interview to having sex with the boy twice and admitted knowing he was sixteen. She was ashamed and embarrassed by her conduct, but mistakenly thought 16 was the age of consent.

Ms Hartnett told the court that in the following weeks the woman followed the boy to another part of the state where they had sex several times in a hotel room.

She has been remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced on Monday.

Read more about this case at The Mercury's website.Image copyright Reuters Image caption Ms Turner was arrested at a hotel near Denver on Friday

A mother in the US state of Colorado who said her daughter had died of a rare terminal illness has been charged with her murder.

Kelly Renee Turner, 41, is accused of causing the death of her seven-year-old daughter, Olivia Gant, in 2017.

Olivia received publicity in the months before her death as she completed items on her "bucket list" of dreams.

Ms Turner is charged with over a dozen criminal counts, including murder, child abuse and charitable fraud.

In July 2017, Ms Turner requested that her daughter's medical care and artificial feeding be stopped due to her poor quality of life, according to the indictment. Olivia died a few weeks later. The cause of death was