HoustonChronicle.com - Minister's wife charged with soliciting minor

BURNET — A youth minister's wife has been accused of posing as a teenage girl for months and sending dozens of letters to a 15-year-old in which she asked him to have sex, authorities said.


Investigators say Amanda White, 27, had phone sex with the teen, left him bras, underwear, condoms and personal lubricant. White was charged Nov. 9 with criminal solicitation of a minor, a third-degree felony.

Police say the teenage boy discovered the admirer he knew as Mandy was White, the wife of the youth minister at Victory Baptist Church in Burnet and a mother. He told his mother, who contacted authorities, said Burnet police Capt. Paul Nelson.

Officers found 50 to 75 handwritten letters and cards that White wrote to the boy, according to the affidavit. They were written during the summer, Nelson said.

The teenager said he would go to White's home to pick up letters he thought his admirer had left for him. He told police that Mandy called frequently and that he thought they were going to meet for sex, the affidavit said.

White told investigators she started writing the teenager for fun after seeing a photo of him on a friend's cell phone. She told investigators that she knew the boy was a minor and that it was wrong to write him graphic letters, according to the affidavit.

At least two witnesses learned of White's contact with the teen, police said.