Cristal Betancourt has been charged with institutional sexual assault, corruption of minors, and related crimes. Read more Alejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer

by Vinny Vella Updated Dec. 9, 2025, 2:34 p.m. ET | Published Dec. 9, 2025, 2:21 p.m. ET

A New York woman who worked as a “house mom” supervising troubled teens at a group home in Feasterville gave a 16-year-old boy money, posed in pictures with him holding a gun, and forced him into a sexual relationship, prosecutors in Bucks County said Tuesday.

Cristal Betancourt, 30, told the teen in text messages in December 2024 that she was pregnant and asked him to buy her an emergency contraceptive, according to the affidavit of probable cause for her arrest.

But the boy, in an electronic diary he kept on his iP

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