A former official is accused of aiding and abetting the sexual exploitation of kids
The first ever elected overtly transgender New Hampshire lawmaker is going through felony costs for allegedly conspiring together with her ex-girlfriend to assemble sexually express photographs of kids, federal prosecutors introduced this week.
“Stacie Marie Laughton, 39, of Nashua, N.H., was charged with one rely of sexual exploitation of kids – and aiding and abetting. Laughton will seem in federal courtroom in Boston at a later date,” the US Lawyer’s workplace mentioned in a statement on Tuesday.
Laughton was arrested after a forensic investigation revealed over 10,000 textual content messages shared together with her former companion, Lindsay Groves, a former daycare employee, that included sexually express photos of kids that look like between three and 5 years of age, in addition to express descriptions of intercourse with one another and youngsters.
Groves took the pictures between Could and June 2022 whereas employed at Inventive Minds daycare in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts. She was arrested and charged with distribution of kid pornography and sexual exploitation of kids final month. The penalty for the crime is as much as 30 years in jail.
Stacie-Marie Laughton is a member of the Democratic Get together and the primary overtly transgender particular person ever elected to the chamber in 2012. She resigned her place as a state consultant earlier than taking the seat, after media uncovered her previous conviction for id fraud and falsifying proof. Laughton ran once more in 2020 and was re-elected in 2022, however resigned in December after being charged with stalking Groves.
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