An Utah mother has pleaded guilty to child abuse after taking nudé photos of her 13-year-old daughter so that the girl could text them to a 30-year-old “family friend.”
In
April, the teen told Duchesne County detectives that Daniel Dean
Divine, who lives in Oregon, was her boyfriend and had asked her to take
nudé pictures
for him on an iPhone he had given her, the Deseret News reported.The
girl said she could not figure out how to use the phone’s camera, so her
mother, 35, agreed to take three photos of her to be sent to the man,
according to the Deseret News.
The names of the mother and the
teenager haven’t been released in order to protect the girl’s identity.
The woman told investigators that Divine was a “very good friend of the
family,”according to KSL. She also claimed that he and her daughter were
planning to wait until the girl was 18 to begin a séxual relationship.
The mother was originally charged with three counts of séxual
exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony. As part of aplea
bargain, she pleaded guilty on Thursday to one count of third-degree
felony child abuse and agreed to testify against Divine. She faces up to
five years in prison.
Divine has been charged with séxual exploitation of a minor and enticing a minor over the Internet.
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