Mother of teen girl pleads innocent to endangerment in Internet sex case

WATERVILLE – A woman whose 13-year-old daughter allegedly had sex with a man she met on the Internet has pleaded innocent to child endangerment charges.

Kathleen Smith, 35, of Waterville drove her daughter and a 14-year-old girl to the local bus station in July to meet two North Carolina men, according to prosecutors.

The girls then went to a motel with the men, where they allegedly had sex, according to police. Authorities were alerted later when the 14-year-old’s parents learned of the girls’ whereabouts.

Two Durham, N.C., men, 20-year-old Kenya Magnum and 19-year-old Anthony Adams, face sex charges in the case.

Smith said Wednesday that her daughter had been corresponding with several men on the Internet, but she never believed they would come to Waterville.

“I have to live with what I did, every day, for the rest of my life,” she said. “I wake up every morning and I cry and just think, ‘What if something actually happened to them?”‘

Smith is alleged to have lied to the older girl’s parents before driving the two to the bus station to meet the men. Police have said she saw but did not meet the men, dropping the girls off with the knowledge they were going to a motel.

Smith said after leaving court that she did not know where the girls were going with the men.

“I thought they were just going to hang out and come back to the house,” she said.

Smith’s trial was scheduled for Nov. 19.