WILLOW GROVE, PA. Endangerment added to charges mother faces in corruption case



WILLOW GROVE, Pa. (AP) -- A woman charged with giving alcohol to teens at a party where a girl was allegedly raped has been charged with threatening the victim and with bringing her 14-year-old daughter and a boy to a motel room, authorities said.
Megan Smith, 36, of Willow Grove, was charged in March with allowing about 25 ninth-graders to drink alcohol at a December party at her home, where a 14-year-old girl told police she was raped by Smith's son.
James Smith, 18, was charged with statutory sexual assault and related charges. His mother was charged with corruption of minors, furnishing alcohol to minors and child endangerment.
On Wednesday, Megan Smith was charged with providing liquor to a 14-year-old boy and taking him and her daughter to a motel where she allegedly left them overnight, authorities said. The boy told police that the teens had sex at the motel on at least three occasions, according to court documents.
Smith also was charged with electronically harassing the girl who filed the rape complaint against her son. Detectives found a series of Internet messages allegedly sent by Smith suggesting that the girl was promiscuous and that she would "get what's coming" to her, police said.
District Justice F. Elaine Berkoff ordered Smith held at Montgomery County prison on $20,000 cash bail, Upper Moreland Detective John D. McCue Jr. said. It was not immediately known whether she had made bail.