Mom Julie Carr gets 20 years for sexually abusing own daughter in video chats with British teen

A woman who sexually abused her own baby girl on a webcast with a teenager in England will have at least 20 years to think about her sick crime.

A judge could hardly hide his disgust for Julie Carr during her sentencing this week. The Maine woman received two decades in jail for producing child pornography.

"What you have done, Ms. Carr, is violate the most basic bond of society -- the bond between a mother and her child, the bond between a mother and her daughter," U.S. District Judge John Woodcock said, the Bangor Daily News reported.

"I'll tell you, unequivocally, that yours is the worst case I've ever seen."

The 33-year-old mother of four molested her youngest daughter while video-chatting with a teen, Nicholas Wilde, across the Atlantic Ocean in 2009. She pleaded guilty in federal court to the pornography charges in 2010 and also is expected to be sentenced on state charges of gross sexual assault and sexual exploitation of a minor.

Carr's children -- three daughters and one son -- were removed from her care after her arrest. The videos involved the youngest girl, who was nearly 2 years old at the time.

The mother's depraved acts were discovered when British authorities arrested Wilde, then 19, two years ago. During the bust, they found a memory stick containing recordings of her video chats, according to the BBC.

Wilde, who has Asperger's syndrome, pleaded guilty to making and distributing child porn last year and is serving nearly five years in prison.

Carr's lawyer argued the woman was "conned" into performing the acts online, court documents state.

"I am sorry," she said during her sentencing. "I never meant to hurt anyone in my family. I regret it."




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