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Elizabeth Garner
A 42-year-old Nashville woman accused of inappropriately touching and soliciting a Murfreesboro preteen for sex at his home in February was arrested on two outstanding indictments last week, according to police.

Elizabeth "Leigh" Garner, 42, of 806 Highland Park Court in Nashville, was indicted by a grand jury this month on one count each of aggravated sexual battery and solicitation of a minor for child rape in reference to the incident, according to a report filed by Murfreesboro Police Detective Tommy Roberts.

The detective reported he began investigating the incident in February with Department of Children's investigator Kevin Smith after the boy disclosed to his mother he had been molested by Garner.

During an interview with police at his school, the boy said Garner was at his home drinking, and at some point late in the evening he went to use the restroom when Garner followed him, according to police.

"He stated she was asking him if he had ever been with a woman," Roberts reported, adding the boy disclosed she then touched him inappropriately on the outside of his pants. "He also said she was making an attempt to take his shorts off ..." and told the boy she would perform oral sex on him.

The boy told Roberts he became frightened and was able to get out of the bathroom and tell his mother.

In an interview with police, Garner told Roberts she was drunk the evening of the incident and got the boy "'confused with a man that was also at the residence,'" according to the report.

Roberts introduced the case during the March meeting of the grand jury, which led to Garner's indictment this month.

Garner was brought into custody in Nashville Thursday and transported back to Rutherford County by a sheriff's deputy, where she was then booked into the county jail.

Her bond was set at $30,000 and she is scheduled to appear in court this week.