LEBANON — When police showed up at a South Lebanon apartment in October to investigate a sex case involving teen-age boys, they found hundreds of pages in journals and ledgers detailing Paula Caddo's sexual escapades.

        The 48-year-old tutor and school volunteer later admitted to Warren County authorities that she had had sex with at least 20 teen-age boys in the past 15 years.

Paula Caddo

        Tuesday, as Ms. Caddo was sentenced to prison for one year and classified as a sexual predator, her lawyer said his client couldn't help herself.

        Ms. Caddo was a product of a history of sexual abuse, attorney Tom Eagle said.

        “She didn't know any other way. She was victimized all her life,” Mr. Eagle said.

        Ms. Caddo pleaded guilty last month to two felony charges of unlawful sexual conduct with a minor for having intercourse with 14- and 15-year-old boys, and four felony counts of corrupting another with drugs for smoking pot with them and two other teens.

        She faced up to 16 years in prison, but Judge P. Daniel Fedders sentenced Ms. Caddo to the minimum of four years and lumped the terms together to run concurrently.

        County investigators still aren't sure of the extent of Ms. Caddo's involvement with teens.

        Police identified two other possible male victims through a photo and the ledger at Ms. Caddo's Lebanon Road residence, but could not find the teens, said Rusty Teague, a child-abuse investigator for the Warren County Sheriff's Office.

        Authorities also could not link any of the victims to Ms. Caddo's volunteer work at South Lebanon Elementary School, or to the private tutoring business she ran out of a garage modified into a playroom and classroom for young neighborhood children.

        Ms. Caddo told police she suffered from psychological problems that resurfaced whenever she went off her prescribed medication. Ms. Caddo also claimed that an ex-husband once forced her to have sex with a teen-age boy, Detective Teague testified.

        Given her past and a relatively clean criminal record, Mr. Eagle argued against classifying Ms. Caddo as a sexual predator.

        The designation requires registration of her whereabouts with police every 90 days for life and notification of neighbors when she moves into a community.

        Ms. Caddo indicated she will appeal the classification.

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