Helen Cartwright who is 42-year-old married mother had sex with a 15-year-old schoolboy, who is 27 years her junior has been spared jail after a judge was told she had given birth to the schoolboy's baby.
She slept with the teenager after months of flirting and admitted to police she knew he was under age.
Their relationship was initially 'hugging and kissing' before they had sex at her home in Dudley, West Midlands, last May.
Cartwright, who already had two children, fell pregnant and gave birth to his baby, who is now five months old.
They became a couple after he turned 16 and she left her husband.
Yesterday she was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for two years, after she admitted sexual activity with a child under 16 at Wolverhampton Crown Court.
She was also given a two-year supervision order and placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for 10 years.
The court heard the lad seduced Cartwright and had sex with her in her home where she lived with her husband and children.
Prosecutor Ms Sati Ruck said: 'It was the boy who instigated the sexual relationship when he slept with the defendant in her own bed.'
Cartwright was arrested after social services were contacted following a tip-off about her relationship with the boy.
When questioned by officers, Cartwright admitted knowing the lad was underage.
The court heard the pair stopped seeing each other when the police became involved but have rekindled their relationship and now have a child together.
Ms Sharonjit Bahia, defending, said: 'She admitted her guilt in a police interview and made no attempt to hide her involvement.'
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