FLINT – Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton said a jury convicted a Mt. Morris
woman of ten felonies related to sexual assaults she committed against her own biological son on April 10.
Tamara Lynne White, 55, is convicted of four counts of criminal sexual conduct first degree involving a victim who is mentally disabled and related to the defendant by blood or affinity to the fourth degree, one count of sexually abusive activity, two counts of using a computer to commit a crime, one count of criminal sexual conduct second degree involving a victim who is mentally disabled and related to the defendant by blood or affinity to the fourth degree, one count of child abuse second degree and one count of possessing child sexually abusive material.
According to trial testimony and police investigative reports, White’s parental rights to her biological son were terminated when he was nine months old, but she continued to maintain contact with him. When the victim was 16-years-old, he began to leave his adoptive mother’s home and would visit and stay with White, who began a sexual grooming process with the victim.
Eventually, the grooming led to a months-long sexual relationship in 2018. According to testimony and investigative reports, the victim has been diagnosed as autistic since childhood.
“Parents are supposed to be a child’s protector not their predator,” said Leyton.
Leyton said justice in the legal sense was accomplished and Tamara Lynne White was being held accountable for her actions.
“She failed very early on as a parent and somehow, things got even worse later on,” Leyton continued. “I can hardly think of a more repulsive parental betrayal.”
Prosecutor Leyton complimented the work of his assistant prosecutors Ezekiel Zanetta and Rachael Greene in bringing this case to a successful verdict at trial and acknowledged the work of the City of Mt. Morris Police Department and particularly Chief Kevin Mihailoff, along with others from the Genesee County Sheriff’s Department, Flint Township Police Department and numerous individuals in the medical and social services fields.
White faces up to life in prison when she is sentenced on June 4.
