Posted on 08/15/2010 3:46:55 PM PDT by billorites
Police determined that 14-year-old Matthew Abrams actually was a 31-year-old woman after finding her alleged victim on the streets of Franklin last month, malnourished and with sores on her feet.
Patricia Dye’s true gender also surprised the friend charged with keeping track of the 16-year-old girl while the teen’s mother was undergoing gallbladder surgery at Sycamore Hospital in Miamisburg.
Dye is accused of luring the teen into a sexual relationship.
“It’s very, very disturbing. She had me fooled. I thought I was dealing with a 14-year-old boy,” said the friend, Melissa Neumann of Middletown.
On Wednesday, July 7, Dye remained in the Warren County Jail on $100,000 bond, waiting for a grand jury to consider her case. She is charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor and engaging in unlawful sex with a minor.
The victim ran away from home June 22 — her 16th birthday — according to police.
Neumann said she sent text messages urging her friend’s daughter to come home.
When police picked up the girl on June 24, she said she had not eaten in three days and had sores on her feet, Neumann said.
After she left home, the teen and Dye were “in and out” of a room at Collie’s Motel on North Main Street in Franklin that Dye shared with her parents, Springboro police Sgt. Bob Marchiny said.
Authorities turned the victim over to her aunt after she was examined at Children’s Medical Center of Dayton, the aunt said.
The girl has since been reunited with her mother, family members said.
The aunt said she changed the girl’s pass codes to Myspace, Facebook and an alumni page for Franklin High School graduates to protect her from Dye, who was portraying herself online as Abrams and under other identities.
The aunt said police showed her as many as five pictures, some portraying Dye as a man, others as a woman.
“I had no clue,” said the aunt, who is not being identified by name for this story to protect the identity of the victim. “I hope to God that she never gets out.”
Dye, arrested June 30 in Franklin, had no local criminal record. No other charges have been filed, but police have said they were investigating whether there were other victims.
Contact this reporter at (937) 225-2261 or lbudd@DaytonDailyNews.com.
Patricia Dye, 31, of Franklin, allegedly pretended
to be a 14-year-old boy to build a relationship
with a 16-year-old Springboro girl.
Public school teacher?
Whatever you say, she/he has the right to marry whomever they want, including the victim.
Not very well-written, but I think the 31 year old girl pretended to be a 14 year old boy.
Then as a boy she/he had sex with a 16 year old girl they are calling ‘the victim’ in this story.
The victim then went outside and did not eat for 3 days and had sores on her feet.
It is not clear why ‘the vitcim’ left for 3 days- was it because she found out the 14 year old guy was a 31 yr old girl?
Not very well-written, but I think the 31 year old girl pretended to be a 14 year old boy.
Then as a boy she/he had sex with a 16 year old girl they are calling ‘the victim’ in this story.
The victim then went outside and did not eat for 3 days and had sores on her feet.
It is not clear why ‘the vitcim’ left for 3 days- was it because she found out the 14 year old guy was a 31 yr old girl?
Ride the lightning, weirdo.
That freak looks more like a man than President Cupcake does. Hell, even Elena Kagan looks feminine compared to that.
We obviously have someone named Lawrence Budd posing as a writer. All of us are his victims.
I think thre's a couple of people ahead of you in line.
You do know that this is an old story. It was posted on FR weeks ago.
Liberalism is a ??????????????
Thank God. I hate to think it would happen again.
A crime that is all too common. We need to start sending links of these "journalism ridicule" threads to their editors.
I supposedly know what happened now and I’m STILL confused as to what happened (and how it happened) I guess I’m sheltered. LOL
Me too - more confused than an infant in a topless bar.
Cheers!
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