Crime & Safety

Mother Arraigned in New Baltimore for Offering Daughter to Stranger

A 28-year-old St. Clair woman is accused of sexually abusing her 4-year-old daughter and offering her to a stranger she met on a dating website, police said Monday.

A 28-year-old St. Clair resident was arraigned Monday in New Baltimore on charges she sexually abused her young daughter and offered her to someone from a dating website, according to the Macomb County Sheriff's Office.

The woman was charged with one count of a 20-year felony of child sexually abusive activity, two counts of using a computer to communicate with another to commit a crime and one count of accosting a child for immoral purposes. The second and third charges are also felonies that are punishable from anywhere from four to 20 years imprisonment upon conviction.

The mother was placed on a $50,000 bond in 42-2 District Court, according to the sheriff's office.

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New Baltimore-Chesterfield Patch is withholding the woman's name to protect her daughter's identity.

On Saturday, deputies from the Macomb Area Computer Enforcement team, also known as MACE, arrested the woman. They were acting on information received from the FBI pertaining to a phone call from a Chesterfield man who stated he interacted with the woman on a dating website, according to police.

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That person reported coming into contact with her on the site and then engaging in a one-on-one chat and text message exchange on their cell phones. During that time, the woman forwarded him a live video stream of her and her 4-year-old daughter in a "compromising position" and then offered her daughter to him, police said Monday.

After he reported the incident, detectives executed a search warrant on the woman's home and placed her under arrest. Her daughter and her other child were handed over to a relative and the Department of Human Services was notified, the sheriff's office stated.

Report Internet predators to Michigan Internet Crimes Against Children at http://www.michiganicac.com/ or macombsheriff.com.

A preliminary exam for the woman is slated for 1:30 p.m. April 4 at 42-2 District Court.


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