72-year-old woman faces sex crime charges against 13-year-old
A 72-year-old North Carolina woman is facing multiple charges of committing sex crimes against a teenager, police said in a WRAL report.
The Raeford Police Department said Caroline McGee Pitts abused a 13-year-old “between April and August,” according to the Fayetteville Observer.
Police said the abuse occurred in Pitts’ Raeford home, in addition to a location in Fayetteville, per WNCN.
Pitts was arrested Dec. 23 and was “charged with one count of statutory rape of a child by an adult, one count of statutory offense by an adult, one count of indecent liberties with a child, one count of crime against nature, and one count of felony child abuse-sexual act,” WTVD reported.
Pitts’ bail was set at $500,000 and she remains behind bars, according to WNCN.
There is no word on how Pitts and the 13-year-old knew each other.