First transgender state rep charged with sickening child porn offenses
America’s first elected trans lawmaker is charged with stomach-churning child porn offenses ‘after daycare worker girlfriend sent naked photos of toddlers in her care’
- Stacie Marine Laughton, 39, has been charged with aiding and abetting the sexual exploitation of children
- Laughton shared explicit and sickening fantasies with ex-girlfriend Lindsday Groves
- Groves has been charged with taking images of nude three-to-five-year-old children while working at a daycare.
America’s first ever elected transgender lawmaker has been charged with horrific child sex offenses after allegedly getting her daycare worker to send her explicit photos of toddlers in her care.
Stacie Marine Laughton, 39, could face up to 30 years in jail after being charged with aiding and abetting the sexual exploitation of children.
The former New Hampshire state representative was arrested after daycare worker Lindsay Groves, 38, was accused of taking explicit photographs of children aged between three to five years old in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts.
Groves was reportedly in a relationship with Laughton at, and the two had discussed the sexual photographs of children in more than 10,000 messages.
Department of Justice documents show several sickening conversations between the pair, who fantasized about sexually assaulting young children. Their alleged conversations were detailed in full in charging documents, but they are too horrific to reproduce.
Stacie Marine Laughton, 39, could face up to 30 years in jail after being charged with aiding and abetting the sexual exploitation of children
Lindsay Groves, right, a worker at a daycare in Tyngsborough, has also been arrested. She was previously in an intimate relationship with Laughton, seen left
The former couple shared warped fantasies about sexual acts they wanted to perform on the children and discussed them in graphic detail, it is alleged.
Groves was reportedly in a relationship with Laughton at one point
According to documents Laughton told Groves to touch a child’s genitals, so she took a picture and sent it to him for ‘sexual gratification’.
She ‘allegedly used natural bathroom breaks for the children,’ such as ‘routine diaper pull-up changes prior to naptime … to take multiple photos of the prepubescent children in a private bathroom.’
Groves, a former employee at Creative Minds Early Learning Center was charged last month with sexual exploitation of children and distribution of child pornography.
She is accused of taking naked pictures of the three- to five-year-old children and disseminating them, according to charging documents.
The charge of sexual exploitation of children can lead to a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.
Nashua Police Department began an investigation into the allegations after receiving an anonymous tip off.
Laughton, a former Democrat representative who is transgender, has a lengthy criminal history dating back to 2002
The former New Hampshire state representative was arrested after daycare worker Groves, 38, was accused of taking explicit photographs of children aged between three to five years old in Tyngsborough, Massachusetts
The charge of sexual exploitation of children can lead to a sentence of up to 30 years in prison if found guilty
Laughton was born a man and was elected in 2012, but was unable to serve after her criminal past emerged in which she was sentenced to probation stemming from a 2008 felony conviction for credit card fraud.
She was arrested for domestic violence/criminal mischief in 2002 and also had a sexual assault charge against a woman in 2003.
In 2015, she was arrested for making a bomb threat against the Southern New Hampshire Medical Center.
In 2021, she was arrested once again for misusing the state’s 911 texting system.
Despite her criminal past, Laughton still ran for a second term in 2022 and was elected to represent Nashua, New Hampshire.
However, once again, she was unable to take office having been jailed on stalking charges. She was accused of stalking Groves.
Laughton has blamed her past criminal behavior on mental illness and untreated conditions.
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