Jennifer Mahoney Admits Making, Streaming Child Porn Of 5-Year-Old She Babysat

Jennifer Mahoney, pictured here in one of her MySpace photos, admitted to sexually abusing a 5-year-old she was babysitting and streaming the abuse via video chat.

TRENTON, N.J. -- A New Jersey woman admitted Wednesday to sexually assaulting a 5-year-old girl she was allegedly babysitting and putting a video of the assault on the Internet.

Jennifer Mahoney, 33, of Manalapan pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to sexual exploitation of a child.

She faces between 15 and 30 years in prison when she is sentenced Aug. 22, and will have to pay restitution to the victim. She had been charged with two counts of sexual exploitation of a child.

As part of the plea, Mahoney agreed 30 years is the appropriate sentence, although the judge will have the final say. She would be under supervised release for anywhere between five years and life after her sentence is completed. She also agreed not to appeal.

Mahoney has been in custody since December after prosecutors said three pornographic videos showing assaults on the child were found on the computer of Robert Ramos Jr. of Austin, Texas.

Ramos was charged with possession of child pornography and sexual exploitation of minors. Prosecutors in Texas say he set up seven fake Facebook accounts to solicit teenage girls to send him nude photos and videos of themselves engaged in sex acts.

Mahoney admitted to sexually assaulting the girl and streaming the assault live over a video chat service on the Internet. She also admitted to abusing the girl on another occasion, recording the abuse on a camera phone and emailing the video to at least one other person. Finally, Mahoney admitted to viewing other videos of child sexual abuse streamed to her using a video chat service.

"This horrible crime is a stark example of how harmful child pornography is, and how its young victims bear not just the physical and emotional scars of violent sexual assault, but lifelong trauma as others repeatedly watch," U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman said in a statement. "Those like Mahoney, who create and feed the market, perpetuate unimaginable suffering for the children they abuse."

Jennifer Mahoney's MySpace Photos

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• MySpace photos of Jennifer Mahoney include numerous suggestive images, as well as pictures of a girl identified as her niece, who appears to be of a notably similar age to the victim.

• The caption on this photo reads, "franklin being molested by a brand new vibrator while he is passed out on christmas day."

• The caption from this photo read, "my fairy garden...i luv it!"

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Comments

[kerao]

03:58 AM on 11/02/2012

This filthy dog needs to rot in jail. I do believe by her pics that she thinks, she's attractive. I've seen better looking faces on a donkey than this beast. I hope everyday is a living hell for this child molester. May they take advantage of her in everyway possible in prison and provide her the same violation in abuse (starting by knocking out her teeth) that she did to that poor innocent child, the dog.

[dbrett480]

01:28 PM on 05/17/2012

Great bunch of people.

[Marley Inksetter-Smith]

10:42 AM on 05/14/2012

Child molesters do not have an easy time in jail! I want my tax dollars to keep this woman suffering for a very long time. I want her to be released in 30 years and be spit on, incapable of finding a job, and I want her to have to go door to door and tell everyone that she is a pedophile.

I don't think that the death penalty is morally wrong, I think that it is too easy. We kill child rapists and serial killers in the same way that we will our beloved pets. I'd rather they suffer over time and lead a useless and miserable life. I'd rather these people want to die, but not be able to.

[kennatah]

02:31 PM on 05/13/2012

I think there should be an "hour alone option"in these kind of cases.The parents of the victim get an hour alone with the molester in a room full of tools .That would be a better deterant id think.

[kennatah]

02:25 PM on 05/13/2012

why are we paying for 30 years room and board??...just kill her.

[Chigirl60]

02:15 PM on 05/13/2012

Just when you think the death penalty might be morally wrong....

[Kristine Ross]

09:28 PM on 05/12/2012

Absolutely disgusting!! If a person is guilty there should be NO plea bargain offered, period! Maximum sentence should be mandatory with NO wiggle room for smaller sentences. In Florida we have an extremely strict gun law and if you even pull out a gun to scare someone it has a mandatory prison sentence with absolutely zero chance of plea. Our legal system should be ashamed of itself! Horrifying!!!

[Inlimbo]

06:48 PM on 05/12/2012

She has to pay restituition to the victim...what is going rate for having your innocence lost to a monster?

[jedime]

10:04 AM on 05/12/2012

she should be sterilized so she can't birth when she gets out.

stories like this remind me of how lucky we are to have family nearby who can watch our daughter for us. in 11 years we haven't had to hire a babysitter.

[Catherine Marachilian]

10:33 PM on 05/11/2012

........AND people ask why I just don't hire a sitter to watch my daughter when I need to work!
there should be stricter rules to watch other peoples children

[kennatah]

02:28 PM on 05/13/2012

agreed.and also.if your picking a babysitter(which ive never used 1)then you make the babysitter choosing rules,so be as strict as you like.

[TheEmptyMonty]

09:01 PM on 05/11/2012

It's times like this I wish I believed in heII.

[Soldier79]

03:12 PM on 05/12/2012

Its times like this I am glad I do.

[bonnetteblj]

08:52 PM on 05/11/2012

Sicko Bitch...she will get what she deserves in prison...no one likes a child predator.

[Leslee Long]

08:25 PM on 05/11/2012

I truly hope we can find a way to start stemming this tide of the internet being some type of free for all wild, wild west. Our stupidity is really being amplified.

[Bev Black Driscoll]

07:42 PM on 05/11/2012

This totally disgusts me! The law seems to not care when you murder a child, she'll probably end up on probation! People that abuse little defenseless children need to be put away forever or die! Just saying!

[kennatah]

02:32 PM on 05/13/2012

yep.kill em with pain.

[clearlythinking]

07:29 PM on 05/11/2012

Sick, sick, sick people.