Crime & Safety
St. Clair Woman Pleads Guilty to Offering Daughter for Sex
A Chesterfield Township man, who met the woman online, told authorities of the woman's abuse and offer of her 4-year-old girl.
A 28-year-old St. Clair woman pleaded guilty Wednesday in Macomb County Circuit Court on charges she abused and offered her young daughter to a Chesterfield Township man for sex.
The , whom Patch is not naming to protect her 4-year-old daughter's identity, took a plea deal in the Mount Clemens court, admitting to six felony counts from the incident. The charges include child sexually abusive activity, using a computer to communicate with another to commit a crime and accosting a child for immoral purposes.
Under the deal, she could serve as little as 45 months in jail. She is scheduled for sentencing at 9 a.m. July 6 before Judge Richard Caretti.
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Meanwhile, she is to lose parental rights to her two children, who are living with their father now, Macomb County Assistant Prosecutor William Harding said Wednesday.
"It was obviously a very troubling case," said Harding, chief of the Internet and ID Theft Unit.
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The woman was arrested by the Macomb Area Computer Enforcement team, also known as MACE, in March. At the time, deputies acted 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 the Macomb County Sheriff's Office.
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 cellphones. 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.
After he reported the incident, detectives executed a search warrant on the home, where she lived with her mother, and placed her under arrest. The suspect's 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.
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