Mother offers teen daughter to man for $10,000

Published: Monday, May 23 2011 6:25 p.m. MDT

SALT LAKE CITY — A Salt Lake woman was charged Monday with attempting to sell her 13-year-old daughter's virginity for $10,000.

The woman, 32, was charged with two counts of aggravated sexual abuse of a child, a first-degree felony, and two counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, a second-degree felony.

The woman's boyfriend reported observing several text messages between the woman and a man named Don discussing sex acts between him and her daughter, according to charges filed in 3rd District Court.

The mother admitted to police she had made an arrangement with Don to have sex with her daughter in exchange for $10,000, the charges state. She also said the man had taken her and her daughter to Victoria Secret to model lingerie and also modeled lingerie at home.

Prosecutors say the woman also sent photos of her daughter wearing lingerie to another man named Will, who was going to pay for the photos.

The teenager initially agreed to the arrangement with Don but later changed her mind, the charges state. Bail was set for the mother at $250,000.

— Benjamin Wood

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Munk

Cottonwood Heights, UT

This is more common than we think or know in the world, and that does not make this any less heinous or pathetic. This is a betrayal of the trust as a guardian and mother. Thankfully the mothers boyfriend had more morals and sense.

9:34 p.m. May 23, 2011
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Rifleman

Salt Lake City, Utah

Some children are blessed with mothers who teach them the virtues of morality. Some children just aren't as lucky.

7:16 p.m. May 23, 2011
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getrealpleeze

Salt lake City, UT

To owlmaster2:

What are you saying? If her daughter were 16 it would be ok? Ugh... Any age is horrific.

How low can parents stoop for money, drugs, etc.

This just makes me sick... Thank heavens for that More..

12:07 a.m. May 24, 2011
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