Police: Mother visited lover, 17
By SON
HOANG
Union Leader Correspondent
October 2, 2006
MALONE
Authorities say Jennifer Malone, 32, made contact Saturday with Christopher Cole, the 17-year-old boy she allegedly took to Florida this summer while running away with her 8-year-old son. Information about the meeting was provided by one of Cole's relatives, police said.
Malone was allegedly driving around the area when she made contact with the juvenile. Police are now charging Malone with stalking, a misdemeanor.
Court documents have revealed that the state Division for Children, Youth & Families had been probing Malone's relationship with Cole, then 16. The two met while Malone was working in Plymouth at Mount Prospect Academy, a school and residential treatment center for troubled boys.
Malone's husband of 13 1/2 years, Rodney, told reporters that his wife's relationship with Cole was sexual. Cole's mother, Jennifer Reyes, said her son claimed it was love.
"He does believe strongly that he's in love with her, and she's in love with him," Reyes said in June. "And he told me they are going to wait until he's 18."
Authorities have said Malone met up with Cole June 16 at Shaw's Supermarket near his downtown home and drove to Canterbury, where she took her son, Brennan, out of school and fled New Hampshire. The three traveled through Niagara Falls, N.Y., Chicago and Knoxville, according to the affidavits, before investigators caught up with them June 26.
Malone was charged with one count of interfering with child custody, a Class B felony. She has since been indicted for kidnapping.
Rodney and Jennifer Malone have been divorced since August, he said. Since she was released on bail, Malone has been living with her parents in Farmington, he said.
"My end of the deal with her is done," Rodney Malone said.
Malone is being held at Valley Street jail in Manchester on $5,000 cash bail and will be arraigned in Nashua District Court this morning.





