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Waukesha Mom Charged with Making Sexually Explicit Photos with Daughter

Suspect told police they made the photos in order to see if someone was using her computer without her permission, according to criminal complaint.

A 40-year-old Waukesha woman is facing charges after she allegedly made sexually explicit photos with her 16-year-old daughter, according to a document filed in

According to the criminal complaint:

The woman — who isn’t being named in order to protect the identity of the victim — took pictures of her daughter dressing, her bare breast and at least one other picture of the two performing sexually explicit acts.

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The pictures were discovered by another woman who was using the mother’s computer to download a picture from Facebook.

The woman told police they had taken sexually explicit photos together in order to know if someone were using the computer without her permission, while the victim told police they made the photos as “a joke.”

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The woman is charged with one count of incest and one count of possession of child pornography. If convicted, she faces up to 65 years in prison.

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