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| Jodi Roberts |
A mother is behind bars after using her young daughter as her photographer for some very inappropriate photos.
The mother has been arrested after she allegedly forced her 9-year-old daughter to take lewd pictures of her, which she then sent to her boyfriend, who is in prison.
Jodi Roberts, 30, of Wabash Valley, Indiana, faces a federal charge of carrying out an act harmful to minors after posing nude in front of her daughter and having the girl take photos of her in inappropriate positions, authorities said.
Roberts’ actions were discovered when a prison guard opened her letter containing the lewd images, which were addressed to her boyfriend Jeremiah LaMaster.
Roberts, who is a cashier at a gas station, allegedly wrote in the letter to her boyfriend, that her 9-year-old took the photos. Roberts has a young son with the 24-year-old LaMaster. He is in jail, since he was arrested in May and charged with felony aggravated assault.
He was involved in a 45-minute standoff with police in Terre Haute, Indiana, when they tried to arrest him. LaMaster was previously convicted of reckless homicide and is known to police as a repeat offender. He is being held on $100,000 bond.
Now, Roberts had to face a judge to deal with her own case. She is being held on $10,000 cash bond.
It is not known if Roberts’ children have been taken into custody of child protective services or if they are being cared for by other relatives.