Two girls in Oklahoma have been arrested after police uncovered an alleged plot to win a toddler custody battle by planting graphic photographs of kids on a father’s cellphone.
Lacey Hucks, 33, conspired along with her pal Angel Moore, 44, to plant greater than 800 photographs of kid sexual abuse on an previous cellphone of Hucks’ husband, police stated.
“It was an enormous plot, however we unfolded it,” Garvin County Sheriff Jim Mullett told local news station KFOR earlier this week. “I haven’t seen something this detailed and this so thought-out to attempt to get anyone put away.”
The husband, who isn’t being named, was arrested final month after Hucks and Moore gave his previous cellphone to the Wynnewood Police Division. The cellphone contained 857 of the graphic footage, which investigators later realized the 2 girls had taken from the so-called darkish net.
“To take the time to seek out all these screenshots, you already know, it’s very disturbing. Very, very disturbing,” Mullett informed KFOR. “That is excessive.”
Investigators launched the person after he spent an evening in jail. They started to query the ladies’s story, partially as a result of the husband’s most present cellphone had no such graphic photographs on it. Police questioned the 2 girls, and shortly realized that it had been an elaborate hoax so Hucks may win an upcoming little one custody battle.
Hucks and Moore had plotted to border the husband way back to December. once they collected the pictures, a May 2 affidavit alleges.
“[Moore] admitted that she was by no means at [the husband’s] residence and by no means noticed him with the cellphone,” the affidavit stated. “[Moore] acknowledged that she thought she was doing the precise factor for [Hucks].”
Mullett stated it was a plan the 2 girls had “rehearsed.”
“The spouse simply got here up with this loopy story and it was plausible at first,” Mullett told KFOR.
Each girls have been charged with conspiracy and knowingly reporting a false crime. Hucks additionally faces a further cost of aggravated possession of the pictures.
