A Democrat lawmaker who became the first openly transgender politician in the US has been arrested for sexually abusing minors and attempting to rape toddlers.
Stacie Laughton, 39, has been federally charged with the sexual abuse of very young children and aiding and abetting by the US Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts.
Lindsay Groves, Laughton’s former girlfriend, was a teacher at the Tyngsborough, Massachusetts daycare center who helped Laughton, a former NH lawmaker, gather sexual images and has been charged with child exploitation.
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Groves allegedly used bathroom breaks for the children, such as diaper changes, to take sexually explicit pictures of the children in the bathroom and would send the photos to Laughton.
Thepostmillennial.com reports: There were over 2,500 text messages between Laughton and Groves on the phones obtained by the prosecution. These included at least four sexually explicit pictures of children between three and five years of age.
According to the Boston Herald, in one alleged text from Groves, she said to Laughton, “I want to do this with you with one of my kids.” The text was in conjunction with a picture focused on the genitals of a prepubescent boy.
Laughton allegedly responded, “I also need to be honest I mean yes that picture was hot of that little boy but you probably have gotten the picture by now that I prefer little girls (sic), but he is cute.”
Other texts allegedly talked about the couple hooking up with each other as well as with children.
Groves was employed by the daycare from 2017 up until June of this year, according to the Boston Herald.
On Monday, the mother of one of the boys at the daycare filed a lawsuit against the business. The suit said, “As a direct and proximate result of the defendant’s negligence and carelessness as well as the invasion of his privacy, the plaintiff’s minor son was caused to suffer, and will continue to suffer.”
The suit alleges the daycare had been told, as early as 2018 by a parent, that Groves “was inappropriately touching children under their care” and that the business “did nothing to protect the children.”
According to the US Attorney’s Office District of Massachusetts, “The charge of sexual exploitation of children provides for a sentence of at least 15 years and up to 30 years in prison, at least five years and up to a lifetime of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.”
