A mother has been arrested after she allegedly forced her young daughter to take freaky photographs of her to send to her inmate fiance. Jodi Roberts, from Wabash Valley, Indiana, is facing a federal charge of conducting a performance harmful to minors after making her nine-year-old child take naked pictures of her in sexually graphic poses, authorities said.
Roberts’ actions were discovered when prison guards opened a letter containing the lewd pictures that was addressed to her fiance Jeremiah La Master last week. Roberts, a gas station cashier, is due to appear in court over the charge but a date has not yet been set. It is not known who is taking care of the nine-year-old girl. Roberts also appears to have a young son.
Her 24-year-old fiance was arrested in May and charged with felony aggravated battery. He was involved in a 45-minute stand-off with police in Terre Haute as they tried to arrest him in May. La master was previously convicted of reckless homicide and is known to police as a repeat offender. He is being held on $100,000 bail at Vigo County Jail and is due in court on July 23.