A Florida mother was arrested and slapped with more than 40 charges after allegedly forcing her 11-year-old daughter to perform various s£x acts on video that she distributed to disturbed perverts.
The mother, whose name and age were not shared, was arrested at her home in St. Petersburg, Florida, on Monday, October. 13, after authorities caught a 38-year-old man who obtained and viewed child pornography the woman allegedly sent him, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.
The mother sent at least 14 explicit videos filmed between March and April of her daughter performing a variety of s£x acts, including b£stiality with the family’s pet dog, Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said in a video shared on Facebook.
“The things that the mother did to the daughter are graphic, and they are grotesque,” Gualtieri said.
“These cases are the worst cases of child abuse and in this case, it’s not just s£xually abusing a child, it’s gross s£xual abuse of a young girl by her mother to satisfy an adult with a perverse craving for watching kids engaged in s£x acts,” Gualtieri added.
The mother and the 38-year-old, who was in possession of the pornography, likely met online, the sheriff speculated. Authorities are still looking into whether money was exchanged.
It’s unclear if the videos were sent to any other people or how many videos the mother forced her daughter to participate in.
Investigators believe the rest of the victim’s family wasn’t aware of the ongoing abuse and that it didn’t extend to her other sibling.
The victim was permitted to stay in her father’s custody, but Gualtieri noted that the Department of Children and Families is “very involved” alongside other victim advocates.
The sheriff was appalled as he noted that his office had booked 84 people on more than 900 charges of possessing or distributing child pornography since the start of the year.
“This is nuts, I don’t know how else to describe it. It’s ruining kids’ lives,” Gualtieri said.
The mother was booked in the county jail and showed her face in court on Tuesday, October 14, where the victim’s father was also in attendance.
The judge ordered the mother not to have contact with her traumatized daughter.
The mother faces 41 charges, including four counts of capital s£xual battery, 13 counts of transmission of child pornography, 13 counts of s£xual performance by a child, and three counts of s£xual activity involving animals.
