Salinas woman arrested on suspicion of repeatedly molesting teen boy.

A 50-year-old Salinas woman was arrested Jan. 14 on charges of molesting a teenage boy over the period of two years.

Annette Vink was arrested on 18 felony counts of lewd acts upon a child, four felony counts of unlawful sexual intercourse with a minor, and 18 misdemeanor counts of annoying or molesting a child, according to the Monterey County Sheriff’s Office. She was released on $1,480,000 bail seven hours after being booked into the jail; it was not clear who posted the bond that secured her release.

Vink has not yet been arraigned. Her first court date is set for Jan. 28, says Deputy District Attorney Jeannine Pacioni.

“Since we’re so early in the process we generally don’t like to talk about the case,” Pacioni says.

The prosecutor did, however, reveal some basic information.

The District Attorney’s Office initiated the investigation into Vink on Jan. 9, after receiving a call into the “WeTip” anonymous crime reporting hotline, Pacioni says. The victim was under the age of 18 during the alleged molestation, and is not related by blood or marriage to Vink.

Pacioni says the alleged molestation took place between 2010 and 2012. Because the case has not yet reached the court, Pacioni would not specify the nature of the “lewd acts.”

The prosecutor expects to file charges at Monterey County Superior Court similar to the police charges against Vink.

Defense attorney Larry Biegel says he hasn’t seen the charges yet, but asks people to remain neutral until more details are known. “There are kids involved here – her kids – so I really don’t want to say anything until I’m in a better position to understand what charges, if any, will be filed,” he says.

As of Jan. 21, Vink’s Facebook page remained online. She goes by Annette Vink-Banda, lists her hometown as Modesto and her current city of residence as Salinas. There are dozens of photos celebrating vacations and school events. In one comment from January 2013, Vink writes, “I will never regret the things I did wrong, I will regret the good things I did for the wrong people.”

Allegations of a woman molesting a boy can raise eyebrows, especially because victims who step forward tend to be girls. Reports of women molesting boys are fairly rare, says Clare Mounteer, executive director of the Monterey County Rape Crisis Center.

Nationwide, as well as in Monterey County, there’s about a 1 to 10 ratio of boys coming forward in rape cases compared to girls.

In the case of boys being assaulted, though, “the public tends to write it off much more quickly as the boy somehow getting lucky in the situation, or it being consensual,” Mounteer says. She adds, “The truth is the perpetrator is always the one we should be blaming.”

“It’s unusual to have a female perpetrator,” Mounteer says. “I don’t have stats, but I think it’s much more unusual to see that.”