Mother guilty of making child pornography for boyfriend

It started as an extramarital affair with a man she met on the dating app Plenty of Fish.

And it ended Wednesday with a Calgary woman admitting criminal charges of making child pornography and communicating for the purpose of facilitating a sexual offence when her new boyfriend turned his attention to her 11-yearold daughter.

With the 43-year-old mother of two wiping away tears in the prisoner's box, Crown prosecutor Aurelie Beland detailed the affair in which the woman was willing to give up her daughter for her own sexual gratification.

Beland said on July 10, 2018, the woman — who can't be identified to protect her victim's identity — took videos of her daughter either nude or in her underwear and sent them to her new lover.

When her husband arrived home from work, their daughter told him she had seen her mom texting with other men and she didn't want them to get a divorce.

“I told (my husband) that `Alex' demanded nude pictures of (our daughter) and I sent them,” Beland, reading from a statement of agreed facts, quoted the mom.

“I also told (my husband) that `Alex' wanted to have sex with (the girl) and when he was done, he would have sex with me.”

A physical altercation between the husband and wife brought police to the home and the apprehension of their children by family services, Justice Willie dewit was told.

In a subsequent interview with a social services investigator, the woman said she and her new boyfriend would have sex where he would beat her and have her “act like his slave.”

He also asked for pictures of the girl and her four-year-old brother, and said when her daughter “was old enough he wanted to be her first,” Beland told dewit.

At defence lawyer Tiana Knight's request, dewit ordered a psychological and risk assessment be conducted on her client, who remains at liberty.

A sentencing date will be set in September.