Missing Michigan Boys' Mother: Tanya Skelton's Past with Underage Boy a Factor?

Tanya Skelton's Past Related to Missing Boy Crime or Not?

Radell Smith
Tanya Skelton's three young sons are missing, feared dead by law enforcement and her own past with a 14-year-old boy has come back to haunt her. Is it related to the crime at hand?

FBI profilers are well versed with the disappearance of children by pedophiles and other sexual deviants. Sexual deviance includes child molesters--be they male or female.

Tanya Skelton pleaded guilty in 1998 to a sexual criminal charge in the fourth-degree, according to WXYZ. An accusation involving a 14-year-old boy was made against Tanya Skelton, saying the mother of the three missing boys in Morenci had sexual relations with the teen in the late '90s.

WXYZ reported a plea bargain was made in the case that is over a decade old and Tanya Skelton pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge.

According to Tanya's designated spokesperson Kathye Herrera, Tanya's inappropriate sexual relations was not in any way pertinent to the disappearance of her three young sons while in the custody of their father John Skelton.

Morenci Police Chief Larry Weeks has requested the assistance of the FBI into the investigation of the disappearance of Tanner (5), Alexander (7) and Andrew (aged 9), but the investigation is focusing specifically on their father, who was the last to see the children alive.

Resource: WXYZ.com

Published by Radell Smith

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Missing Michigan boys: John Skelton was the last known person to be seen alive with his young sons, but he claims he gave them to a fictional woman named Joann Taylor. But it is his estranged wife, Tanya Skelton who has the sexual record.

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  • Danny2/19/2011

    I live on the same street that the 3 skeleton boys lived on....they rode there bikes up and down the sidewalk in front of my house.

  • hi12/9/2010

    Why would on earth a sex offender would be awarded custody? She should have rotted and raped in jail as everyone else would have.

  • Zack Mandell12/6/2010

    This case is so bothersome.. how did these 3 boys just disappear? I have a feeling it isn't going to be good when we finally get an answer. It's very depressing to think that as a society, we have so many sick people out there that children going missing is seeming like a regular occurrence. what's worse is that sometimes the parents are involved! It's just awful, disturbing beyond words.

  • Sandy James12/3/2010

    I can't imagine have relations with a 14 year old!

  • JerseyNana12/2/2010

    Wow, Radell, this world just keeps getting weirder all the time!

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