Massachusetts Police Accuse Ann Lussier Of Forcing Her Daughter To Strip On Skype

A 41-year-old Massachusetts mother is facing child endangerment charges after she allegedly forced her daughter to pose nude in front of a web camera.

Ann Lussier, of Attleboro, says that a man impersonating a Florida photographer used the Internet phone application Skype to dupe her into thinking she had entered a mother-daughter bikini contest with a $20,000 grand prize, according to the Attleboro Sun Chronicle.

Sitting in front of their computer, Lussier allegedly demanded her 10-year-old daughter to strip down to her bra and underwear before insisting she completely disrobe. The man on the other side of the camera, who police identified as Joshua Dunfee, of Oxford Junction, Iowa., hid his identity by teling Lussier that his web cam had broken.

"There are sickos out there, and they let them go. But I get locked up. I'm a victim," Lussier told the local newspaper.

Authorities arrested Lussier and Dunfee following a month-long investigation which began when the mother told her twin sister about how "uncooperative" her daughter behaved throughout the incident. The sister contacted police after hearing the young girl crying during the phone call.

"The intention the twin sister had was to report that someone, this pervert, was taking advantage of someone vulnerable and their goal was to get him," Lussier's lawyer, Ernest Solomon, told ABC News.

Lussier is charged with "exhibiting a child in a state of nudity, indecent assault and battery on a person under 14, and reckless endangerment of a child," according to NBC affiliate KSEE-4.

Dunfee will be sent to Massachusetts to face child pornography charges.

Comments

[billtmore]

08:23 AM on 11/16/2011

Of course the Republicans are a force in this country when we have as many stupid people in this country . prime example.... this woman

[billtmore]

07:39 AM on 11/17/2011

I am not saying she is Republican but i am saying she is stupid and the fact that Merica has so many stupid people ...no wonder the republican party has such a big base!

[Bills Catz]

07:33 AM on 11/16/2011

There are victims and there are volunteers, and this gal sure sounds like she jumped right on this with dollar signs in her eyes. Only two options from there, either the woman has the IQ of a ripe tomato or she's one of the greediest sleazers to come around in a long time.

[tombartho]

08:28 PM on 11/15/2011

"There are sickos out there, and they let them go. But I get locked up. I'm a victim," Lussier told the local newspaper. She's right, there are a lot of sickos out there, and she is one of them. If there is one thing worse than doing something like this to a child, it is doing something like this to your own child. As a parent, you are the one person they should be able to trust. Lock her up for YEARS and never allow her to have contact with this child again. Even the child knew how wrong it was by being so difficult to get to do it and crying about it when her mother was on the phone.

[amluvinit2]

06:27 PM on 11/15/2011

Mother of the year.

[Di Gray]

05:11 PM on 11/15/2011

Where is the mother's arrest? She forced her 10-year-old daughter to take her clothes off and stand naked in front of a camera? That she did it at all is disgusting and she should be charged.

At least the twin sister came forward and did for her neice what her own mother would not. Essentially, this woman sold her child's innocence for a $20,000 possibility. Despicable.

[LiberalLee]

06:06 PM on 11/15/2011

First line of the article states the woman is facing charges. That means arrested.

[amluvinit2]

06:27 PM on 11/15/2011

Did you read the article. The mother has been charged, and the only reason the twin sister called the PD, was because she was enraged that the man duped her sister. She was after the man.

[tuffpitt]

06:56 PM on 11/15/2011

I called the police to protect my niece! I would appreciate it if everyone would stop twisting this story.

[Di Gray]

04:16 PM on 11/16/2011

"Did you read the article." (?)

Yes, I did read the article. I have to admit though that I obviously still had Jerry Sandusky on the brain and so obviously wasn't as attentive as I should've been. LOL

Thanks for summarizing it for me though. I appreciate it.

[blizzardlipz69]

04:56 PM on 11/15/2011

did the mother need some meth money? it sounds like she is on something.

[surfette72]

04:56 PM on 11/15/2011

Often, women are only "victims" when it suits their needs. I wonder if the feminists will jump on this one. Afterall, this poor woman and her daughter were clearly taken advantage of by the mean and nasty male who lied about his web cam being broken. Otherwise I am SURE that this Mom NEVER would have thought about doing something so foolish! This tyrannical man had power over her and he must be stopped! *ugh*

[LiberalLee]

06:00 PM on 11/15/2011

Sorry we don't defend idi0ts like her. The best thing is just to hope they stay on birth control...once they get out of jail and hope their daughters have better role models than cretins like that one.

[medicallibrarian]

10:05 PM on 11/15/2011

"I wonder if the feminists will jump on this one." What do you know of "feminists" other than what you spin in your head? Come on, tell me what you really know about the history of feminism in this country and what and who are feminists, hum? Wrong argument. Both of these adults broke criminal laws besides both of them engaging in deviant behaviors.

[parksle2]

03:28 PM on 11/15/2011

you better believe people are that stupid. I had a friend in California that was in a bar with a woman one night and had to stop her three different times from giving another fellow her phone number who was clearly wearing a tracking anklet. I bet you could pull the same deal on her to pose.

[noudidnt]

01:11 PM on 11/15/2011

Fits the_stereotype

[keeniisite]

12:41 PM on 11/15/2011

this is not new. woman and especially female children have been victimized forever.

[deerinmw]

12:31 PM on 11/15/2011

This mother just doesn't have a clue does she? Her daughter has more sense, poor thing! Glad they got the perps - mother included. Hope the twin sister had better motives than to get the guy who "cheated" them. If not, good for child services to know, so they don't put the little girl with her aunt, or likely, any other family members. They all seem to be a few cans short of a six pack.

[auntiem30sure]

12:29 PM on 11/15/2011

Seriously can people really be that stupid...

[chrispet1]

12:18 PM on 11/15/2011

At last, someone who stepped in and did the right thing for this child. The aunt acted in a moral, loving and sensible manner. Kudos!

[Wesley Ryan]

12:16 PM on 11/15/2011

DUh heres your sign! It was all about trying to get money, glad you got caught what would have been next make your daughter stand on a street corner as a prostitute?

[irishlion7]

12:15 PM on 11/15/2011

There we have it again sick mothers destroying there own children. Thoug it is true only women can give birth to a child. I still stand behind my position that all people considering having children both women and men have to fo through a long psyc. examenation for parental fitness.Before being allowed to have children. And yes the easiest way would be a medical procedure performen on young girs at or around puberty. That would prevent thm from becoming pregnant. Of course the prodedure would have to be reversable. So that one the women reched adult hood and passed the Psyc. exam then she could bear children, but at that point who ever she might concive a child with (the male) would have to go through an extensive psyc. exam to show that he was psyc. fit to father a child. It is the only fair way!

[bennett388]

12:55 PM on 11/15/2011

Congratulations! You just solved the worlds over poplulation problems. You just wiped out at least half the of worlds population growth by requiring psycologicical exams before people can have children. Run right down to the census bureau and tell them your idea and see what they say.

[LiberalLee]

06:03 PM on 11/15/2011

There's about twice as many people as the planet can support now. Irishlion wasn't wiping out anyone.
What's wrong with preventing a few billion unintended extras?
READ the comment first.