A 32-year-old Indiana mother of seven was arrested last week and charged with the attempted sex trafficking of her 7-month-old daughter to a man for $400.
According to WTTV, the FBI launched an investigation into Morgan D. Stapp last November after it received a report from Snapchat about the attempted sex trafficking.
“U can f**k her for 400$,” read one such message. “Half now rest after. I’ll send my address. I do live alone, and her dad is not in the picture.”
The messages, from user “morgan stapp,” included three photos of her infant daugther.
An Indianapolis mother faces a felony sex trafficking charge after police say she tried to collect $400 in exchange for a man being able to molest her infant daughter.
Agents interviewed Stapp on November 11, 2024, when she told them her Snapchat account had been recently “hacked” and she no longer had access to it. She also told them she’d gotten an email sayin that her account had been permanently banned because of “online commercial sex transactions.” She also said she was upset to lose photos of her seven children she’d saved to the account.
But during an interview later in November with the state Department of Child Services, Stapp admitted that she lied to the FBI about losing access to her Snapchat account.
“I wanted the FBI to leave,” she reportedly said.
The FBI contacted Indianapolis Police in December seeking help with the investigation, and officer obtained a search warrant for the Snapchat account, where they found selfies Stapp saved to the account after the FBI interview. They also found that she snet more than 7,000 messages over three days that month, including 81 messages asking if there was interest “in buy my nudes so I can get baby diapers.”
According to police, the IP address associated with the account sent all the messages near Stapp’s home address.
Documents charging stapp with attempted child sex trafficking were filed in Marion Superior Court on July 1, and the court issued a warrant for her arrest. She was arrested Tuesday and booked into the Marion County Jail with a $200,000 bond. She has an initial court hearing set Friday morning.
