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Massachusetts Police Accuse Ann Lussier Of Forcing Her Daughter To Strip On Skype

First Posted: 11/14/11 05:33 PM ET Updated: 11/14/11 05:33 PM ET

A 41-year-old Massachusetts mother is facing child endangerment charges after she allegedly forced her daughter to pose nude in front of a web camera.

Ann Lussier, of Attleboro, says that a man impersonating a Florida photographer used the Internet phone application Skype to dupe her into thinking she had entered a mother-daughter bikini contest with a $20,000 grand prize, according to the Attleboro Sun Chronicle.

Sitting in front of their computer, Lussier allegedly demanded her 10-year-old daughter to strip down to her bra and underwear before insisting she completely disrobe. The man on the other side of the camera, who police identified as Joshua Dunfee, of Oxford Junction, Iowa., hid his identity by teling Lussier that his web cam had broken.

"There are sickos out there, and they let them go. But I get locked up. I'm a victim," Lussier told the local newspaper.

Authorities arrested Lussier and Dunfee following a month-long investigation which began when the mother told her twin sister about how "uncooperative" her daughter behaved throughout the incident. The sister contacted police after hearing the young girl crying during the phone call.

"The intention the twin sister had was to report that someone, this pervert, was taking advantage of someone vulnerable and their goal was to get him," Lussier's lawyer, Ernest Solomon, told ABC News.

Lussier is charged with "exhibiting a child in a state of nudity, indecent assault and battery on a person under 14, and reckless endangerment of a child," according to NBC affiliate KSEE-4.

Dunfee will be sent to Massachusetts to face child pornography charges.

 
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06:09 PM on 11/30/2011
im gonna have to quote kurt cobain. stupid people shouldnt breed
06:03 AM on 12/04/2011
Yeah, he was a real bright bulb.....
09:09 PM on 11/28/2011
How is this mother not being charged with "child pornography?" Hard to believe someone can be that stupid, but there is not much that isn’t stupid out there any more. People why is this behavior being allowed to flourish? We know the problem, we know the cure, so why is this being treated like a misdemeanor all the time. Kids need someone to care! Let’s let these felony bad check writers and bar room fighters out and lock up the more deserving child abusers if our prisons are so over crowded. “And save the children!”
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09:35 AM on 11/30/2011
Because she was not trying to engage in child pornography. She thought she and her daughter had won some kind of contest for $20K and it just seems that pride, vanity, and/or greed played a role in her lapse of good judgement.

Why is it hard to believe some people are that caught up that they loose all common sense? I mean imagine how may people get duped into believe a check they won in some mysterious lottery is real and put the cash into the account and spend it before the check can actually cleared or without verifying the source thoroughly? Or people who thought they were getting a great deal on a vcr or dvd player and when they open the box at home, they find they have a wooden box.

For whatever reasons, some people do some of the silliest things for fame, wealth, or materialism, and sometimes their acts, while criminal my not be intended by their actions.
12:57 PM on 11/30/2011
Why would anyone strip nude to be in a bikini contest? I think she knew what she was doing and this was a poor back up plan if she got caught. Sounds like it isn't the first time she has done it. How do you win if you never entered?
12:47 PM on 11/30/2011
The woman’s "actions" are exactly why she should be charged with child pornography. “You don’t break the law to win anything” and you sure as heck don’t disrobe your child for a stranger on the internet.
The minute she had her daughter strip she was not only putting her child on display, she was breaking the law and worse, “for gain.”
How do you have a computer these day and believe anything someone tells you, well enough asks you to take your child’s cloths off for them? When do the red flags go up for this person?
I understand very well how these professional criminals do their jobs. We were doped for $350,000. by a man who was to do a subdivision for us and he stole it. You have to trust the people running your project at some point while taking all the precautions you can, and we had meetings, a close life long friend overseeing, and top lawyers and still he did it. Costing us another million over 12 years before we could put it all behind us, so I know first hand how they work. Still I would have never put my son on display to pay for any of it.
09:12 PM on 11/22/2011
A VICTIM? That child should be taken from her IMMEDIATELY...Good Mother's do not do this for any reason!!! and the pervert should be shot...end of discussion.
12:14 PM on 12/01/2011
I hope the girl was hot. Kudos to the mom if she was.
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01:46 PM on 11/15/2011
What mother would honestlly believe this¿?¿? I'm a guy and i don't know how these Bikini contest entries work but i'm sure if it's a "BIKINI" contest why would the "Judges" have to see you naked this mother is seriouslly messed up in the head dontcha think? Did the mother even enter a contest? man some people today will believe anything and this world scares me more and more everyday with what is going on sexually, you have 7 year olds having oral sex in school a 10 year old girl in Mexico who just gave birth 14 year olds offering sex online, My little girls are only 3 and 6 months old but it scares me knowing they are going to be growing up in this mess of a world and it seems like no matter how much you try you really can't protect them like you want too i grew up in the 90's and i didn't learn anything till i was 12 or 13 which is the way it should be and even untill i had my first sexual experience i didn't know left from my right but now you have 7 and 8 year olds who know more then i knew so it's scaring me
08:58 AM on 11/21/2011
Growing up in the 90s I guess you did not learn grammar either, more specifically how to use a period to end your sentences. What can YOU pass along to your children about education?
10:36 PM on 11/22/2011
She knows enough not to strip for pervs in front of a webcam, or make her daughter do so.

I for one think that's more important than proper punctuation.
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07:25 AM on 11/15/2011
The woman was stupid enough to believe that she and her 10 year old daughter and entered a bikini contest that she should have known she had not entered, then she forces the daughter to strip naked for said contest. She is too stupid to have a child.
03:46 PM on 11/22/2011
I agree with your sentiment 110 percent, but want to make a small distinction: obviously she was NOT too stupid to HAVE s child, all she needed to do was spread her legs.. But she IS WAYYYYYYY to STUPID to raise one. You don't need a high IQ to raise a good child, but apparently she lacks common sense and decency, two elements needed for good parenting.
01:22 PM on 11/27/2011
..this women deserves everytihng she get for putting her daughter through this. SHe sold her daughter out for money. and paid for it with her innocence.. disgusitng.

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12:45 PM on 12/08/2011
I couldnot agree more....
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05:51 PM on 11/14/2011
10 year olds wear bras?
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05:19 PM on 11/14/2011
She's no good for her children. Put her in jail and forget where you put the key.
05:16 PM on 11/14/2011
What in God's name ever happened to not telling the mothers name for the sake of keeping the identity of the victim secreted??? The media as well is making a victim out of the young child by posting the mothers name! How long will it take her neighbors before the spread this vile story all over the internet? Way to go AOL, way to go internet media!
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05:43 PM on 11/14/2011
absolutely! how despicable Huff
05:15 PM on 11/14/2011
How can a Mother justify having her baby, a child that she is supposed to protect, remove her clothing for ANYONE. It makes me want to cry for that poor child. She will forever be changed because of her "mother's" disgusting behavior. The mother should never be allowed near her daughter or any other children.
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05:06 PM on 11/14/2011
"The intention the twin sister had was to report that someone, this pervert, was taking advantage of someone vulnerable and their goal was to get him," Lussier's lawyer, Ernest Solomon"

This lawyer makes me sick. What about the child????? The mom should have protected her, not made her disrobe for some pervert!!!!!!!
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05:09 PM on 11/14/2011
The lawyer is acting on behalf of his client. Thats what he is getting paid for. ALL your anger should be reserved for the mother making her child disrobe to a stranger.
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05:02 PM on 11/14/2011
The real pervert is the mother, who forced her daughter into this. Does being a daughter count for anything anymore?
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04:53 PM on 11/14/2011
That comment she made that she was a victim herself...that is gonna cost her during the sentencing phase. That statement, coupled with the sister's statement that the little girl was crying while mom griped about how "uncooperative" her 10 year old was will be cold hard proof that she simply does not believe that she did wrong. Under no circumstances should she ever be allowed to have contact with her daughter again. Whenever she gets out, there should be a restraining order in place by then. You pull something like this, you don't get a second chance.
04:46 PM on 11/14/2011
I hope the young girl is safe now and someone is helping her to overcome this. Amazing how her mother could be insane and stupid at the same time.
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04:44 PM on 11/14/2011
The child knew it was the wrong thing to do...The mother and aunt seemed to have absolutely no clue what was wrong with what the stranger was asking...These are the people that surround these poor kids. IF a mother doesn't protect her child WHO WILL??
06:54 PM on 11/14/2011
Huh? What is a 10 year old child going to do? Sure she knew it was the wrong thing to do..that's why she cried when her mother told her to disrobe and why the mother complained to her aunt about her lack of obedience. Her aunt reported her to the authorities. What article were you reading???
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10:00 AM on 11/15/2011
Chuck...I was saying that the only person here that knew it was wrong was the child! I guess you couldn't infer from the rest of the paragraph that the adults were irresponsible adults...
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10:02 AM on 11/15/2011
Chuck, I guess you couldn't infer by what I wrote that the CHILD WAS THE ONLY ONE WITH SOME COMMON SENSE...and that the adults were irresponsible..You must have failed reading comprehension in school..
08:44 AM on 11/15/2011
Other than the child, who knew this was wrong, the Aunt reported it to authorities. The Aunt was the only adult who was protecting this child from a pedophile. The child's mother certainly wasn't doing the job.
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04:40 PM on 11/14/2011
This parent is no parent at all, betra;yed by her own mother, sad.