Natisha Hillard, 25, pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Gary, Ind., to one count of selling a child for sex and two counts of allowing a child to take part in child pornography, the Post-Tribune is reporting.
Hillard admitted under to her attorney, Visvaldis Kupsis, that she met Christopher M. Bour through a dating service in 2011 and that they agreed to meet at her place. After they met, Bour asked her about two children, both girls, who were 3-months-old and 3-years-old at the time.
Hillard sold her infant children to Bour from September 2011 until February 2013. An acquaintance of Bour’s told the Federal Bureau of Investigation that he had been asking her to take part.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Jill Koster told the court that Hillard can seen on images found on Bour’s computer showing him sexually touching the child with Hillard in the background.
She also let Bour take sexual pictures of the older child at least once, Koster said.
Koster said that Hillard admitted to police after her apprehension that she sold the children to Bour because she needed money and that Bour paid her extra for the last encounter to be alone with the child.
Hillard has no idea whether Bour then shared those images with other people.
“He didn’t tell me what he was going to do with them,” she said.
Hillard, who is being held without bond, faces a mandatory minimum sentence of 30 years to life in prison on the charge of selling a child.
Bour, also being held without bond, has pleaded not guilty in the case.
